Racial Expulsion of Black Communities from Southern Towns 1890s

Throughout the 1890s, white mobs expelled entire Black communities from towns across the South and border states. In August 1894, white residents of Whitesboro, Texas, drove out the entire Black population following racial tensions. Similar expulsions occurred in dozens of towns across Arkansas, Tennessee, and Kentucky. These forced removals prefigured the systematic 'sundown town' phenomenon that would formalize Black exclusion across the country in the early 20th century.