Red Summer - Vicksburg riots

Time: Thursday May 15, 1919

Place: Vicksburg, Mississippi, U.S.

Details: In Vicksburg, 1000 white rioters broke Lloyd Clay out of jail, hung him, and burned him in the city center as the crowd watching. The riot spurred by rumors of an attack on a white women.

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