Thibodaux massacre
Event of racial violence in the late 19th Century Southern United States
Thibodaux massacre
The Thibodaux Massacre was an episode of white supremacist violence that occurred in Thibodaux, Louisiana, on November 23, 1887. It followed a three-week strike during the critical harvest season in which an estimated 10,000 workers protested against the living and working conditions which existed on sugarcane plantations in four parishes: Lafourche, Terrebonne, St. Mary, and Assumption. The strike was the largest strike in the history of the industry, and it was the first strike to be conducted and coordinated by a formal labor organization, the Knights of Labor. At planters' requests, the state sent the militia to protect strikebreakers from ambush attacks by strikers, and work resumed on some plantations. Black workers and their families were evicted from plantations in Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes and retreated to Thibodaux. Tensions erupted into violence on November 21 when an unknown white man entered a black-owned barroom and killed one black laborer and wounded another. Violence...
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