Narrative of Riots at Alton

Target entity: Narrative of Riots at Alton
Context triple: [Edward Beecher, notableWork, Narrative of Riots at Alton]

• A. Copper Riot
  The Copper Riot was a major 1662 popular uprising in Moscow sparked by economic hardship and the debasement of currency during the reign of Tsar Alexis of Russia.
• B. Bread and Roses Strike
  The Bread and Roses Strike was a landmark 1912 textile workers’ strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts, notable for its large immigrant workforce, women’s leadership, and its role in U.S. labor history.
• C. Trial of the Twenty-One
  The Trial of the Twenty-One was a 1938 Soviet show trial in Moscow in which prominent Old Bolsheviks and party leaders were accused of treason and executed, marking one of the most infamous episodes of Stalin’s Great Purge.
• D. Colfax massacre
  The Colfax massacre was an 1873 episode of racial and political violence in Louisiana in which white supremacists killed dozens of Black freedmen, marking one of the deadliest incidents of Reconstruction-era terror and undermining Black civil rights in the post–Civil War South.
• E. Armies of the Night
  Armies of the Night is Norman Mailer’s Pulitzer Prize–winning nonfiction novel that blends history and personal narrative to chronicle the 1967 anti–Vietnam War march on the Pentagon.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: Narrative of Riots at Alton
Target entity description: Narrative of Riots at Alton is a 19th-century account documenting the violent pro-slavery mob attacks in Alton, Illinois, particularly the murder of abolitionist Elijah P. Lovejoy and the destruction of his printing press.

• A. Copper Riot
  The Copper Riot was a major 1662 popular uprising in Moscow sparked by economic hardship and the debasement of currency during the reign of Tsar Alexis of Russia.
• B. Bread and Roses Strike
  The Bread and Roses Strike was a landmark 1912 textile workers’ strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts, notable for its large immigrant workforce, women’s leadership, and its role in U.S. labor history.
• C. Trial of the Twenty-One
  The Trial of the Twenty-One was a 1938 Soviet show trial in Moscow in which prominent Old Bolsheviks and party leaders were accused of treason and executed, marking one of the most infamous episodes of Stalin’s Great Purge.
• D. Colfax massacre
  The Colfax massacre was an 1873 episode of racial and political violence in Louisiana in which white supremacists killed dozens of Black freedmen, marking one of the deadliest incidents of Reconstruction-era terror and undermining Black civil rights in the post–Civil War South.
• E. Armies of the Night
  Armies of the Night is Norman Mailer’s Pulitzer Prize–winning nonfiction novel that blends history and personal narrative to chronicle the 1967 anti–Vietnam War march on the Pentagon.
• F. None of above. chosen