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September 20, 1891 Led by the local sheriff more than a dozen people had been killed
http://nhlabornews.com/2015/09/september-20-1891/
African American sharecroppers affiliated with the Colored Farmers’ National Alliance and Union go on strike for higher wages and an end to peonage in Lee County, Arkansas. By the time a white mob – led by the local sheriff – put down the strike, more than a dozen people had been killed.
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