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  1. Threat of Houston, Texas race riot leads to armed suppression of African-Americans.
    date July 21, 1879map HARRIS, Texastags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Race-Relations

    Racial tensions rose to the boiling point after a black citizen named Floyd was lynched by a white mob. In response to the perceived threat of a black race riot in reprisal for this atrocity, “parties of well armed men' descended upon the city, while the neighboring city of Richmond sent six deputy sheriffs to “restore order.' In addition to this the city of Houston escalated their military...