Thibodaux Massacre: How a Sugarcane Strike Led to the Killing of Dozens of Black Workers in 1887
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The Thibodaux Massacre is one of the deadliest episodes of racial violence in American labour history. It took place in November 1887 in Louisiana, following a sugarcane workers’ strike over wages and working conditions. As tensions between Black workers and plantation owners escalated, armed white men unleashed violence on the Black community, killing dozens and […]
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