In Mobile, Alabama, home to large numbers of former Confederate soldiers and black Union veterans, racial tensions were elevated, particularly on the current issue of whether African-Americans could be allowed to ride in city streetcars. A Republican Party public meeting with famous radical Pennsylvania congressman, William D. Kelley, as main speaker, was disrupted on this day with shots fired on the edge of the crowd resulting in two deaths and several other woundings. Strongly reported in the Northern press, this riot did little to reduce radical Union ideas that the Civil War had not yet ended. (By John Osborne)
United States Senate and the U.S. War Department, "Federal Aid in Domestic Disturbances, 1903-1922," Congressional Serial Set, 67th Congress (Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1922), 95.
