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The march of urban racial massacres that Wilmington led was not confined to the South.In 1908, scores of blacks died in Springfield, Ill., in an attack that drew force from Wilmington's example. In East St. Louis, Ill., white mobs killed as many as 200 blacks and burned 6,000 out of their homes in 1917. The Chicago race riot of 1919 left 15 whites and 23 blacks dead; in 1919 alone, similar riots in 26 other U.S. cities from Omaha to Washington, D.C., left scores of bodies. In Tulsa in 1921, between 150 and 200 blacks died in a mass assault.
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