The May 1919 East St. Louis, IL, riot was precipitated by the hiring of some 500 African Americans to break a strike by white workers at the Aluminum Ore Company.

Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates argues that continued racial tension between police and African Americans actually stems, in part, from the battles on Los Angeles streets in 1965.

As a result of those events, African Americans had been armed out of self defense. What happened in East St. Louis “was the first major race riot of the World War I period,” says Barnes.

The riots caused more than $400,000 in property damage and prompted 6,000 African Americans—more than half of East St. Louis’s African American population—to flee the city.

This year, the “Three Hot Days in August” is the official name for the commemoration of the Springfield 1908 Race Riots.

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