Officials note less than a quarter of all National Parks are devoted to display the histories of diverse people. “Designating ...

President Joe Biden has designated part of Springfield as a national monument. The new monument is at the site of the 1908 Race Riot in Springfield. The riot started after a large mob of white ...

Biden was joined in the Oval Office by lawmakers as well as civil rights and community leaders as he signed the proclamation ...

In 2020, the site of the riot near downtown Springfield was added to the National Park Service ... “While the 1908 Springfield race riot demonstrates our nation’s deep history of racial ...

Sculptures commemorating the centennial of the Springfield Race Riot of 1908 outside the Abraham ... Haley said she pushed for the national monument status for the riot site along with elected ...

Haley said she pushed for the national monument status for the riot site along with elected ... Scene from the deadly 1908 race riot in Springfield. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and ...

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.

President Biden on Friday designated a national monument at the site of the deadly 1908 race riot in Springfield, Ill., a tragedy that led to the creation of the NAACP. "Over a hundred years ago ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — President Joe Biden is set to sign a proclamation Friday to designate a national monument at the Springfield, Illinois, site of the 1908 race riot, which later fueled the ...

The commemoration of the 1908 race riot comes weeks after ... Friday designating the site of a 1908 race massacre in Springfield, Illinois, a national monument. For two nights in August 1908 ...