Biden designates 1908 Springfield race riot site as national monument
Updates to add Biden designation, adds commentary from Biden, details
By Nandita Bose and Trevor Hunnicutt
WASHINGTON, Aug 16 (Reuters) -President Joe Biden on Friday designated anational monument to commemorate a 1908 race riot in Springfield, Illinois, that left several people dead, hundreds injured and destroyed dozens of Black-owned businesses and homes.
In August 1908, mobs of white residents tore through Illinois' capital city under the pretext of meting out judgment against two jailed Blackmen. After authorities secretly moved the prisoners to anotherlockup miles away, the mob took out its anger on the city's Black population.
The riot fueled the formation of the influential civil rights organization, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), in 1909.
A ceremonyheld on Friday in the Oval Office featured civil rights leaders and community leaders from Springfield, which is also former President Abraham Lincoln's hometown.
"We've made a lot of progress but we can't never stop," Biden said during the event, adding that it was important for people to remember what had happened.
The move came amid efforts, Biden said, to "erase" the country's history, which serves as a warning to Americans about the risks "if we don't fight for this democracy." Books dealing with race issues have been a target for book bans sought by conservative advocacy groups.
"The new national monument will tell the story of a horrific attack by a white mob on a Black community that was representative of the racism, intimidation, and violence that Black Americans experienced across the country," the White House said in a statement.
The event comes a few weeks after the fatal July shooting of Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old Black woman, by a white sheriff's deputy in her Springfield home after she called 911 for help.
Massey's death has reignitedthe debate over police brutality against Black Americans four years after the murder of George Floyd by the police in Minneapolis, which led to protests over racial inequality.
In June 2021, Biden became the first sitting U.S. president to visit a site in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where hundreds of Black Americans were massacred by a white mob in 1921, and said the legacy of racist violence and white supremacy still resonates.
The same month, he and Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic candidate for the Nov. 5 election, signed a bill into law to make June 19 a federal holiday commemorating the emancipation of enslaved Black Americans.
Reporting by Nandita Bose and Trevor Hunnicutt in Washington; additional reporting by Stephanie Kelly, Editing by Jamie Freed and Deepa Babington
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