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Springfield 1908 riot in Lincoln's hometown remembered
In Lincoln's hometown Springfield Illinois the 1908 race riot left a dead baby and four rioters killed as thousands of whites attacked Black residents. A sheriff saved two prisoners, a mob hanged a man, and militia restored order as NAACP roots grew from the violence.
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Springfield
Ill
America
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
Barack Obama
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
North
Mississippi
Illinois
Roger Wilkins
NAACP
the Crisis Magazine
East St. Louis
Tulsa
Oklo
Tamara Douglass
Sangamon County
Harry Loper
Badlands
Scott Burton
Burton
Edith Carpenter
Jet