List of expulsions of African Americans Facts for Kids

African Americans have been violently expelled from at least 50 towns, cities, and counties in the United States. Most of these expulsions occurred in the 60 years following the Civil War but continued until 1954. The justifications for the expulsions varied but often involved a crime allegedly committed by White Americans, labor-related issues, or property takeovers.

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- 19th century
- 20th century
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Timeline

19th century

Date	Location	Notes
1831	Portsmouth, Ohio	All 80 Black residents were expelled under Ohio’s discriminatory "Black Laws."
1870s - 1940s	Wyandotte, Michigan	African Americans were expelled from Wyandotte on multiple occasions.
April 13, 1873	Pollock, Louisiana	For more details, see Colfax massacre The small black population of Pollock left the town after the massacre of more than 100 blacks in nearby Colfax.
November 1, 1878	Celina, Tennessee	Celina's black population left on November 1, 1878 after being subject to a series of violent actions over the course of several months.
1886	Comanche County, Texas	White residents expelled blacks from Comanche County because of alleged crimes committed by black men.
1888–1908	Paragould, Arkansas	A number of race riots occurred in Paragould between 1888 and 1908, resulting in most of the town's 150 black residents leaving.
1892	Lexington, Oklahoma
1893	Blackwell, Oklahoma
June 20, 1894	Monett, Missouri	Monett's black population was expelled after the lynching of a black man who killed a white man during a fight. The Monett expulsion was the first of number of violent expulsions in Southwestern Missouri between 1894 and 1906.
1896	Linton, Indiana	300 black strikebreakers were expelled from the coal mining town of Linton after one of the strikebreakers shot a white boy. Eventually blacks were banned from living in all of Greene County.
August 27, 1897	Elwood, Indiana
April 10, 1899	Pana, Illinois	For more details, see Pana riot Gun battle between striking white miners and strikebreaker black miners results in the deaths of five blacks and two whites as well as the expulsion of Pana's black population.
September 17, 1899	Carterville, Illinois	A violent shootout occurred between striking white miners and non-union black miners who were brought into Carterville as strikebreakers. Five black miners died in the incident. All the surviving black miners left Carterville shortly after the riot.

20th century

Date	Location	Notes
February 20, 1901	Mena, Arkansas	Most of Mena's black population left the town after a black man named Peter Berryman was lynched for allegedly assaulting a white girl.
August 18, 1901	Pierce City, Missouri	For more details, see Pierce City, Missouri#1901 lynchings and expulsion 300 black residents were expelled
June 1902	Decatur, Indiana	A mob of 50 men forced black residents out of Decatur.
April 16, 1903	Joplin, Missouri	White residents drove out Joplin's black residents following the lynching of a black transient for the murder of a white policeman.
July 9, 1903	Sour Lake, Texas	A mob of 500 white men opened fire on blacks and chased them out of Sour Lake after a brakeman was shot dead by a black man.
October 1905 and January 1909	Harrison, Arkansas	Race riots in 1905 and 1909 resulted in the expulsion of Harrison's black residents.
August 24, 1906	Cotter, Arkansas
1908	Marshall County, Kentucky	Whites led by a local doctor drove out blacks from the now extinct city of Birmingham and most of the rest of Marshall County.
November 1909	Anna and Jonesboro, Illinois	Whites expelled Anna and Jonesboro's 40 black families after the lynching of William "Froggie" James in nearby Cairo.
September 1912	Forsyth County, Georgia	For more details, see 1912 Racial Conflict of Forsyth County, Georgia 98% of Forsyth County's 1,000 black residents were expelled after two alleged attacks on white women allegedly committed by black men.
July 1917	East St. Louis, Illinois	For more details, see East St. Louis Race Riots The East St. Louis riots or East St. Louis massacres, of late May and July 1–3, 1917, were an outbreak of labor- and race-related violence by whites that caused the death of 40–250 black people and about $400,000 (over $8 million, in 2017 US dollars) in property damage. An estimated 6,000 black people were left homeless.
Fall 1919	Corbin, Kentucky	200 black workers were forced to leave Corbin during a labor dispute.
November 2–3, 1920	Ocoee, Florida	For more details, see Ocoee massacre Ocoee's black community was burned to the ground and nearly all of its 500 residents killed or expelled by whites after black men killed two whites in self defense.
May 31, 1921	Tulsa, Oklahoma	For more details, see Tulsa race massacre As many as 300 black people were killed and 10,000 left homeless after whites attacked and destroyed the Greenwood district of Tulsa, known as "Black Wall Street".
January 1923	Rosewood, Florida	For more details, see Rosewood massacre Whites attacked and completely burned down the black Levy County town of Rosewood. At least 8 people were killed.
1923	Blanford, Indiana	Ku Klux Klan-led expulsion.
January 3, 1924	Manhattan Beach, California	The Manhattan Beach City Council passed ordinance 263, claiming eminent domain for a public park, in order to take properties owned by black residents and eliminate the African American resort, Bruce's Beach.
1954	Vienna, Illinois	White residents burned down all the black homes of Vienna and nearby areas outside city limits.
1954	Sheridan, Arkansas	Following the Brown v. Board decision, and a reversed decision of the school board to integrate the schools, local sawmill owner Jack Williams threatened to burn down the homes of all his black employees unless they accepted a buyout offer and relocated to Malvern.

List of expulsions of African Americans facts for kids

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Timeline

19th century

20th century

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