November 1887
Racial violenceBook sources
White vigilantes massacre Black sugar workers at Thibodaux
Thibodaux, Louisiana
A sugar workers’ strike was followed by white vigilante violence against Black people in Thibodaux. The killings helped suppress workers’ efforts to challenge plantation labor conditions.
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Context / qualification
The victims were not limited to people proved to be strike leaders. Estimates of the number killed vary; this entry does not present a precise toll as settled.
Sources
- Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States, chapter 11, pp. 274; supplied print pages, edition/year unidentified
- 64 Parishes: Thibodaux Massacre ↗