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On Riots and Resistance: Freedpeople’s Struggle against Police Brutality during Reconstruction - The Journal of the Civil War Era
On May 9, 1867, a festive contest took place in Richmond, Virginia between the local fire department and a visiting fire company from Wilmington, Delaware. A biracial crowd of Richmonders spent the afternoon cheering for their local firehouse and jeering the visiting group. When a white firefighter took offense to a Black Richmonder for laughing … Read More Read More
