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[https://eji.org/news/remembering-black-veterans-targeted-for-racial-violence-in-the-us/ by EJI 11/11/25] | [https://eji.org/news/remembering-black-veterans-targeted-for-racial-violence-in-the-us/ by EJI 11/11/25] | ||
Inspired to defend their country and pursue greater opportunity, African Americans have served in the U.S. military for generations. But for over a century, instead of being treated as honored members of society upon their return from military service, Black veterans were accosted, attacked, or lynched. EJI has documented at least 35 military veterans who were victims of racial terror lynching from 1865 to 1950. | Inspired to defend their country and pursue greater opportunity, African Americans have served in the U.S. military for generations. But for over a century, instead of being treated as honored members of society upon their return from military service, Black veterans were accosted, attacked, or lynched. EJI has documented at least 35 military veterans who were victims of racial terror lynching from 1865 to 1950. | ||
=====July 11, 1951: Cicero Riot Over Housing Desegregation===== | |||
[https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/cicero-riot/ by Isabel Wilkerson ZINN EDUCATION PROJECT] | |||
On the evening of July 11, 1951, one of the biggest riots in U.S. history began after a young Black couple moved into an apartment in all-white Cicero, Illinois, west of Chicago. The husband, Harvey Clark Jr., was a World War II veteran who migrated to Chicago from Mississippi and was working as a bus driver. | |||
