1895 New Orleans dockworkers massacre
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1895 New Orleans dockworkers massacre
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The 1895 New Orleans dockworkers massacre was an attack against black, non-union dockworkers by unionized white workers on March 11 and 12, 1895. The mob killed six black workers. The incident had its roots in both economic pressure and racial hatred. The riot marked the end of fifteen years of racially unified unions in New Orleans, for example in the successful 1892 New Orleans general strike just three years before. In the economic slowdown following the Panic of 1893, the Harrison Line of Li
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