In February 1895, New Orleans shipping companies fire 300 white unionized dockworkers to break a union that, for 15 years, had been multi-racially unified. Non-unionized Black workers are hired as replacements at lower wages, further exacerbating racial tensions.

On this day, in 1895, unemployed white screwmen and longshoremen shoot at their replacements, injuring one. The next dawn, in coordinated attacks, several hundred whites stage attacks on several docks, killing six Black workers.

The governor calls in the state militia to quell the violence.

Racial cooperation amongst dock unions reemerges within a decade.