SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) - President Joe Biden announced his plans to formally designate the site of the 1908 Springfield Race Riot as a national monument using his authority through the Antiquities ...

The 1908 Springfield Race Riot is an unseemly chapter in the city's history. Two Black men — Scott Burton and William Donnegan — were lynched and in all, 11 people died, though accounts vary about ...

President Biden signed a proclamation Friday to establish the Springfield 1908 Race Riot National Monument in Illinois at the site of a deadly attack by a White mob on a Black community 116 years ago.

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CHICAGO (CBS) — The White House will move to designate the site of the Springfield Race Riot as a national monument. Illinois State Congresswoman Nikki Budzinski (D-13th) made the announcement ...

In her first term as a U.S. Representative, Nikki Budzinski said the push to make the site of the Springfield 1908 Race Riot a national monument was "the single largest ask of the Biden Administration ...

(NNPA Newswire) – On the 116th anniversary of the Springfield Race Riot, President Joe Biden signed a proclamation establishing the Springfield 1908 Race Riot National Monument in Springfield, ...

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President Joe Biden signed a proclamation Friday designating the site of a 1908 race massacre in Springfield, Illinois, a national monument.For two nights in August 1908, a White mob laid siege to ...

It’s the sixth monument designation for President Joe Biden. The Illinois site commemorates the 1908 riot that killed at least six Black residents and was the impetus for the NAACP’s creation.