Danville Massacre
The Dancille Massacre, formerly known as the Danville Riot, was a deadly assault on African Americans at a Danville, Virginia market November 3, 1883 and continued for several days after with violent attacks continuing until after the election. The shooting took place during tensions between white supremacists and members of the Readjuster Party in Danville, Virginia.[1] Four African Americans and one white man were killed. A local investigation faulted the African Americans and a U.S. Senate investigation[2] faulted the white supremamcists.[3] A majority of Danville's residents were African American and the Readjuster Party heod a majority of city council seats.
The attack occured during a market day when African Americans, many tobacco factory workers, bought groceries.[4] The violence continued in the days following the shooting and African Americans were attacked, beaten, killed, and kept from voting in the election. the The Richmond Dispatch ran a statement the day after the shootings that “These negroes had evidently come to regard themselves as in some sort the rightful rulers of the town. They have been taught a lesson — a dear lesson, it is true … but nevertheless a lesson which will not be lost upon them, nor upon their race elsewhere in Virginia.” Businesses owned by African Americans closed, many moved outside of town, and Democrats retook control of local and state politics in the wake of the violence.[5]
References
- ↑ "Group One Materials". Danville Museum of Fine Arts and History.
- ↑ "Inquiry into Massacre of Colored Men at Danville, Va., and Alleged Election Outrages in Virginia, in 1883: hearings before the United States Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections, Forty-Eighth Congress, first session, on Feb. 14, 15, 18-21, 25-27, Mar. 4, 5, 10, 11, 27-29, 31, Apr. 1-5, 7, 14, 15, 1884". U.S. G.P.O. October 30, 1884 – via Berkeley Law.
- ↑ Wolfe, Brendan. "Danville Riot (1883)".
- ↑ ""The Danville Massacre," New York Times (November 10, 1883)".
- ↑ Pottiger, Maya (October 19, 2021). "In the 1880s, election fraud and a massacre stopped Black progress". Word In Black.
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