Serious rioting over three days in Memphis, Tennessee killed 46 blacks and two whites, burned 91 homes, four black churches, and eight black schools. Street altercations between police and recently discharged black soldiers spread to the wider white population, resulting in indiscriminate atrocities against blacks.  The event had a strong impact on public opinion and the current moves towards the Fourteenth Amendment.  (By John Osborne)

Under cover of darkness, a series of arson attacks was made on African-American churches in Petersburg in the early hours of the morning.  The Union Street Methodist Sunday School was the first target, followed soon after by the African Baptist Church on Harrison Street, which was completed destroyed.  Two other church school rooms and offices were then burned.  No injuries were reported. (By John Osborne)

At around two in the morning, one entire side of the building holding the O.D. Case Book Bindery suddenly collapsed.  Excavations on a neighboring building site, combined with heavy rain, had undermined the structure's foundations.  Huge damage resulted but the early hour meant fortunately that the two hundred people employed there, mostly women, were at home and no injuries were reported. (By John Osborne)