White Mob Attacks Black Protestors at Segregated Mississippi Beach in 1960
Black protestors organized a nonviolent protest and walked onto Biloxi Beach on Mississippi’s Gulf Coast in order to have a “wade-in” challenging the segregated beach area. The protest took place on April 26, 1960 when Black activists were met by a group of angry white people who told them to leave the beach. Once the demonstrators refused to leave, the white mob attacked them with sticks, clubs, pipes, and whips while local law enforcement did nothing to intervene. When white airmen from a nearby Air Force base attempted to protect injured protesters, they too were attacked.
The violence on the beach started several more violent encounters in the city of Biloxi; white people harassed, attacked, and even shot at Black residents, and many Black people had to be escorted from their jobs to their homes by deputies in order to avoid the violence. Others chose to stay at their workplaces rather than attempt to travel home that night.
The Biloxi beach protest led to the launch of a Biloxi NAACP branch and started a legal fight to open local beaches to people of color. The U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit to desegregate beaches in 1960, and 12 years later beaches in Mississippi were officially desegregated.
Source: White Mob Attacks Black Demonstrators at Segregated Mississippi Beach. (n.d.). Retrieved April 26, 2022, from https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/apr/26
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