Archive For September 2, 2021
Rock Springs massacre, September 2, 1885, white miners attack Chinese miners; 28 killed, 15 injured, The Rock Springs massacre, also known as the Rock Springs Riot, occurred on September 2, 1885, in the present-day United States city of Rock Springs in Sweetwater County, Wyoming. The riot, and resulting massacre of immigrant Chinese miners by white immigrant miners, was the result of racial prejudice toward the…