Silent protest parade in New York City against the East St. Louis riots, 1917

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The East St. Louis Riot (May and July 1917) was an outbreak of labor and racially motivated violence that caused anywhere between 40 and 200 deaths and extensive property damage in the United States industrial city of East St. Louis, Illinois, located on the east bank of the Mississippi River across from St. Louis, Missouri.

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