Mechanic's Institute Massacre

ID: 6438 ~ Source: The Riot In New Orleans - Interior Of Mechanics' Institute During The Riot," August 25, 1866, The Historic New Orleans Collection, Permanent Collection, https://catalog.hnoc.org/web/arena/search#/entity/thnoc-archive/1979.200%20i-iv/the-riot-in-new-orleans---interior-of-mechanics-institute-during-the-riot.

This file appears in: A New Orleans Story

In 1866, white New Orleanians attacked white and Black Republicans at a political convention. Nearly 50 African Americans were killed. The Mechanic's Institute Massacre is an example of the racial violence employed by white Southerners during Reconstruction to intimidate Black citizens from exercising their political rights and asserting racial equality.

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