Massacres & mob attacks
Longview Race Riot of 1919
10 - 18 July 1919Longview, TX
Two Black leaders in Longview told cotton farmers to sell direct to Galveston buyers and bypass the local white brokers. A white mob burned their homes and a Black dance hall; the state put the county under martial law, and nobody was tried.
- People killed
- 1
The marker sits at the centre of the place named, because the records do not fix a single spot.