Massacres & mob attacks
South Philadelphia attacks a Black woman's new house
26 - 29 July 1918South Philadelphia, around 29th and Ellsworth Streets, PA
Adella Bond, a Black probation officer, bought a house on a white block in July 1918. A crowd came for it; she fired a pistol to call police, and the police arrested her. Four days of violence followed and four people died.
- People killed
- 4
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