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Red Summer

Vicksburg riots

Thursday May 15, 1919
Vicksburg, Mississippi, U.S.

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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