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Uprising in East St. Louis in response to white labor violence.

Date: 1917

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The Aluminum Ore Company brings in 3,000 Black workers to break a strike. Three thousand white union members march in protest and begin to attack Black families in the neighborhood. Two white police officers are killed, and white community members go on a rampage, burning the Black neighborhoods and attacking residents. Two hundred Black people are killed, and 6,000 lose their homes.