Millican massacre

1868 CE.

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The Millican massacre was a freedmen massacre that took place from July 15 to July 17, 1868, in and near Millican, Brazos County, Texas, during Reconstruction. The violence followed rising tensions between white residents and formerly enslaved African Americans after the Civil War, including disputes over labor, political rights and armed self-defense. Estimates of the death toll vary. The Equal Justice Initiative lists the massacre among Reconstruction-era racial terror attacks and estimates that 150 Black people were killed in Millican in July 1868. Texas A&M University has described the event as killing or driving away up to 300 Black residents and as "the worst incident of racial violence in Texas during Reconstruction."

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