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The 1966 Chicago West Side riots occurred between July 12 and 15 in Chicago, Illinois. After police arrested a man who was wanted for armed robbery, black residents took to the streets in anger and looted and burned various stores throughout the West Side until the arrival of 1,200 National Guardsmen on July 15. Violence quickly subsided and ...
1968 Chicago riots - One of the over 100 riots that erupted nationwide after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Most of the Chicago rioting occurred on the West Side and was the second deadliest (11 fatalities, versus 13 in the Washington D.C. riots) of the riots in the nation after King's death. 11 500 August 23–28, 1968 Political
1971 — Albuquerque riots, June 13—15, Albuquerque, New Mexico. The Albuquerque Police Department arrested several Chicano teens for underage drinking at Albuquerque's Roosevelt Park. Several hundred people in the park for a concert viewed this as motivated by anti-Spanish sentiment, and the next 30 hours would be marked by violent conflict ...
The Division Street riots were episodes of rioting and civil unrest in Chicago which started on June 12 and continued through June 14, 1966. These riots are remembered as a turning point in Puerto Rican civic involvement in Chicago. [1] [2] This was the first riot in the United States attributed to Puerto Ricans. [3]
Pages in category "Riots and civil disorder in Chicago" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. ... 1966 Chicago West Side riots;
The uprising started Aug. 11, 1965, in a nearby neighborhood after the drunken driving arrest of a young Black man by a white California Highway Patrol officer.
Bird of the Iron Feather centers on fictional Black Chicago Police Detective Jonah Rhodes (Bernard Ward), who is killed during the 1966 Chicago West Side riots.Stories are told via flashbacks based on his diary, discovered in his police station locker after his death by his nemesis, Sergeant Harry Vines (Milton Lamb).
The term ghetto riots, also termed ghetto rebellions, race riots, or negro riots refers to a period of widespread urban unrest and riots across the United States in the mid-to-late 1960s, largely fueled by racial tensions and frustrations with ongoing discrimination, even after the passage of major Civil Rights legislation; highlighting the issues of racial inequality in Northern cities that ...