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White supremacist riot breaks out in Memphis, Tennessee.

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White supremacists and white police attack Black neighborhoods to protest the end of the Civil War. During the trials afterwords, multiple Black women will testify publicly on the gang rape tactics used by the white men in their attack. It is one of the first documented cases of women publicly naming gang rape in a court setting.