July 19, 1919: White Mobs in Uniform Attack African Americans — Who Fight Back — in Washington, D.C.
July 19, 1919: White Mobs in Uniform Attack African Americans — Who Fight Back — in Washington, D.C.
On Saturday, July 19, 1919 a major “race riot” broke out across Washington, D.C. as white mobs attacked the African American community and African American soldiers returning from WWI. The mob was retaliating against an alleged assault of a white woman, Elsie Stephnick, by a Black man, Charles Ralls.
Elsie’s husband was a white, civilian employee of the navy. Hundreds of white sailors, soldiers, and marines formed “a mob in uniform.”
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