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August 14th

1 event recorded on The Ledger.

  1. 1908
    The Record

    Springfield, Illinois race riot

    A white mob in Springfield, Illinois, lynches two Black residents and burns Black homes and businesses over two nights, driving much of the Black population out of Abraham Lincoln's hometown. The violence provokes Mary White Ovington, Oswald Garrison Villard, and William English Walling to plan the organization that becomes the NAACP.

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