19. Another Was In Washington, DC
A few days before the Chicago riot began, on July 24, an African American in Washington, DC was accused of rape. Incensed white supremacists took up arms and began enacting their own vigilante justice by pulling African Americans off streetcars and beating them in the streets.
In one of the only instances during this period in which African Americans took up arms against whites, a group of African Americans decided that enough was enough. For four days, whites and African Americans battled it out on the streets of the nation’s capital. Six people died, and 50 were seriously wounded.
