Jenkins County, Georgia, riot of 1919

Jenkins County riot of 1919
Part of the Red Summer
	Census Enumeration District Map Of Jenkins County
Date	April 13, 1919
Location	Carswell Grove Baptist Church and Cemetery, Jenkins County, Georgia
Participants	White mobs attack the black community
Deaths	Official death toll was 6: W. Clifford Brown, a white sheriff's deputy; Thomas Stevens, a white police marshal; Edmund Scott; Henry Ruffin; John Ruffin; Willie Williams; The New York Tribune reported that a seventh man was pulled from the Millen prison.

The Jenkins County riot of 1919 took place on Sunday, April 13, 1919, a black man killed two white police officers in an altercation during a traffic stop. In response, a white mob burned several buildings in the black community and killed four black men.

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