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Which event that resulted in white mobs killing and wounding dozens of blacks and inflicting substantial property damage was caused by Atlanta newspapers' untrue reports that black men were attacking white women?

A)Albany Movement

B)Civil Rights Movement

C)Atlanta Race Riot of 1906

D)1881 International Cotton Exposition       
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The Atlanta Race Riot of 1906 resulted when the 2 major candidates in the governor's race used the Atlanta Journal and the Atlanta Constitution newspapers to promote the disenfranchisement of black voters.

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It was the "Atlanta Race Riot of 1906" that was caused by Atlanta newspapers'
untrue reports that black men were attacking white women," since hundreds of blacks were killed at the hands of whites in "retribution".
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