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In 1887, for example, ten thousand workers at sugar plantations in Louisiana, organized by the Knights of Labor, went on strike for an increase in their pay to $ 1. 25 a day.
Most of the workers were black, but some were white, infuriating Governor Samuel Douglas McEnery, who declared that " God Almighty has himself drawn the color line.
" The militia was called in, but then withdrawn to give free rein to a lynch mob in Thibodaux.
The mob killed between 20 and 300 people.
A black newspaper described the scene:
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