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By EJI Staff, EJI

On the afternoon of Saturday, July 13, 1929, more than 200 black residents of North Platte, Nebraska, were driven out of the city by a mob of white residents. The mob targeted the entire black community with violence after a black man was accused of killing a local white police officer.

The day before, two white police officers responded to a domestic violence call at the North Platte home of a black man named Louis “Slim” Seeman. When Mr. Seeman allegedly shot and killed one of the officers, a mob of white men and police descended on his home and trapped him inside of a chicken coop on the property. The mob doused the coop with gasoline and set it ablaze with Mr. Seeman inside; when his body was pulled from the wreckage, it was clear he had died from a gunshot wound — either by his own hand or fired by a member of the mob.

See Also

Jim Crow, African American History, Black History, U.S. Slavery, Slavery, American Slavery, American Racism, KOLUMN Magazine, KOLUMN, KINDR'D Magazine, KINDR'D, Willoughby Avenue, Wriit,

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Full article @ EJI, A History of Racial Justice

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