University of Illinois
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Eslarp: Race Riot at East St. Louis, 1917
This chapter from a book about East St. Louis relates the horror of the East St. Louis Massacre where maurading whites fired on African Americans and torched their homes. Read about the aftermath of the massacre and what happened to...
PBS
Pbs: American Experience: The East St. Louis Riot
Read about the shameful events and carnage in the targeting of African Americans in the East St. Louis Riot in 1917. This was truly a black mark in race relations in the United States.