“In the Hands of a Mob": The Evansville Race Riot

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🗓️ 2 August 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

There’s a lot they don’t tell you about the Hoosier State in school textbooks. In 1903, an incident at a tavern set off a chain of events that led to a race riot that convulsed the city of Evansville, Indiana.

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1:40.2	This episode contains discussion of murder, suicide, racism, and racist violence.
1:49.3	Sheriff Christian Crats could see a massacre looming. All he had to do was glance out the windows of the county jailhouse in Evansville, Indiana. He could watch the mob of white men clamoring for
2:03.0	revenge. Their screams echoed through the hot summer air. Out there too were Evansville mayor
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