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  1. en.wikipedia.org

    The Snow Riot was a riot and lynch mob in Washington, D.C., that began on August 11, 1835, when a mob of angry white mechanics attacked and destroyed Beverly Snow's Epicurean Eating House, [1] [2] [3] a restaurant owned by a black man. This violence, born of white men's frustration about having to compete with free blacks for jobs, touched off several days of white mob violence against free ...
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  3. boundarystones.weta.org

    Sep 6, 2024Conditions were ripe for D.C.'s first race riot, which erupted in August 1835 when a lynch mob targeted Beverly Snow, a successful free black restaurateur. Long ignored by local officials and historians, the Snow Riot sprang from white bitterness over the city's prosperous free black community and previewed sectional tensions that would ...
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  5. emancipation.dc.gov

    In 1835, Snow's Eating House became the target of local rioting. The Nat Turner Plantation Uprising in Virginia, the growing number of blacks in the nation's capital, and the increasing militancy of abolitionist literature produced conditions in which an isolated occurrence sparked widespread violence in Washington.
  6. mallhistory.org

    Description Washington's first race riot spilled to the edges of the National Mall in 1835. On August 12, angered at rumors of a slave attack on a white woman, a mob of angry white men descended on the Epicurean Eating House owned by Mr. Beverly Snow at Sixth and Pennsylvania Avenues.
  7. capitolhillhistory.org

    The lecture was based on his book "Snow Storm in August: Washington City, Francis Scott Key, and the Forgotten Race Riot of 1835. The title of the publication is a reference to Beverly Snow, a former slave whose successful restaurant at Sixth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW was ransacked by a white mob driven by fears of a slave rebellion.
  8. blackandeducation.org

    The Riot of 1835. In the summer of 1835 Arthur Bowen was on his way home in the evening, when he reached the front door of his owner's residence. Bowen was about eighteen years old and he was owned by Anna Thornton, who was the widow of William Thornton—the first Architect of the Capitol. Dr.
  9. The 1830s are not a well-known period in Washington's history. Too late for L'Enfant and too early for Lincoln, they are a mystery to most residents. But hiding beneath the quiet surface were rising racial tensions, as vividly described in Jefferson Morley's new book, Snow-Storm in August. Morley brings the 1830s to life with an account of dramatic events…
  10. books.google.com

    In 1835, the city of Washington simmered with racial tension as newly freed African Americans from the South poured in, outnumbering slaves for the first time. Among the enslaved was nineteen-year-old Arthur Bowen, who stumbled home drunkenly one night, picked up an axe, and threatened his owner, respected socialite Anna Thornton. Despite no blood being shed, Bowen was eventually arrested and ...
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  1. Snow Riot

    The Snow Riot was a riot and lynch mob in Washington, D.C., that began on August 11, 1835, when a mob of angry white mechanics attacked and destroyed Beverly Snow's Epicurean Eating House, a restaurant owned by a black man. This violence, born of white men's frustration about having to compete with free blacks for jobs, touched off several days of white mob violence against free blacks, their houses, and establishments. It stopped only at President Andrew Jackson's intervention. Wikipedia

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