(Opelousas, Louisiana), September 28 1868: Camilla race riot (Camilla, Georgia), September 19 1868: Wards Island riot, March 5, Irish and German-American indigent immigrants, temporarily interned at Wards Island by the Commissioners of Emigration, begin rioting following an altercation between two residents, resulting in thirty men seriously wounded and around sixty arrested. 1870: Eutaw massacre (Eutaw, Alabama), October 25 1870: Mamaroneck riot (Mamaroneck, New York), August 13 1870: Laurens, South Carolina, October 20 1870: Kirk-Holden war: (Alamance County, North Carolina), July - November, Federal troops, led by Col. Kirk and requested by NC governor Holden, were sent to extinguish racial violence. Holden was eventually impeached because of the offensive. 1870: New York City orange riot, July 12 1871: Meridian race riot of 1871, (Meridian, Mississippi), March 1871: Second New York City orange riot, July 12 1871: Los Angeles anti-Chinese riot (Los Angeles, California), October 24, mixed Mexican and white mob killed 17–20 Chinese in the largest mass lynching in U.S. history 1871: Scranton coal riot, Violence occurs between striking members of a miners' union in Scranton, Pennsylvania when Welsh miners attack Irish and German-American miners who chose to leave the union and accept the terms offered by local mining companies. 1872: Pattenburg Massacre, on the Muthockaway Creek, Hunterdon County, New Jersey. Black laborers working on the farm of a Mrs Carter are attacked while returning to their shanties after work by Irish laborers who had been working on a nearby tunnel. Three Black men Denis Powel, Oscar Bruce and another older Black man were shot and beaten beyond recognition. Three other Black men from the massacre were arrested, while their assailants remained at large. 1873: Colfax massacre (Colfax, Louisiana), April 13 1874: Vicksburg massacre (Vicksburg, Mississippi), December 7, attack on Black citizens, death toll estimates range from 75 to 300 people. 1874: Battle of Liberty Place (New Orleans, Louisiana), September 14, after contested gubernatorial election, Democrats took over state buildings for three days. 1874: Coushatta massacre (Coushatta, Louisiana), August 1875: Clinton Riot (Massacre) (Clinton, Mississippi), September 1876: Statewide violence in South Carolina (Hamburg, Charleston, Ellenton, Cainhoy, Edgefield, Mt. Pleasant, and Beaufort, South Carolina), July - November 1876: Hamburg massacre, (Hamburg, South Carolina), July 1876: Ellenton riot, (Ellenton, South Carolina), September 1877: San Francisco riot of 1877, (San Francisco, California), July 23–25, a three-day pogrom waged against Chinese immigrants. Jim Crow period (1877–1914) 1877: Group of white men burn down Chinese workers