Massacres & mob attacks
Charleston Riot of 1919
10 May 1919The streets around Beaufain and Archdale, Charleston, SC
White US Navy sailors on shore leave attacked Black men through the streets of Charleston on a Saturday night in May. Three Black men were killed. It was the first major incident of the Red Summer.
- People killed
- 3
The marker sits at the centre of the place named, because the records do not fix a single spot.