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A damaged building following riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin, August 28, 2020. The shooting of Jacob Blake on August 23 sparked protests in a number of American cities, mostly within Kenosha. [78] Two protesters were shot and killed in an incident during the protests. [79]
A wave of civil unrest in the United States, initially triggered by the murder of George Floyd during his arrest by Minneapolis police officers on May 25, 2020, led to protests and riots against systemic racism in the United States, [8] [9] including police brutality and other forms of violence. [10]
American Sociological Review (1998): 39-54. online; Bernstein, Iver. The New York City Draft Riots: Their Significance for American Society and Politics in the Age of the Civil War (Oxford UP, 1991) online; Brophy, Alfred L. and Randall Kennedy. Reconstructing the Dreamland: The Tulsa Riot of 1921: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation (Oxford ...
The right to assemble is recognized as a human right and protected in the First Amendment of the US Constitution under the clause, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of ...
The Empress Ballroom was a popular dance venue until the 1960s with British dance bands playing summer residences of four weeks during the summer seasons. They included the bands of Geraldo, Joe Loss, Ted Heath, John Dankworth, Jack Parnell, and Ken McIntosh. In 1964, the Rolling Stones caused a
When whites riot : writing race and violence in American and South African cultures (2001) online; Werner, John Melvin. "Race riots in the United States during the age of Jackson: 1824-1849" (PhD dissertation, Indiana University; ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1972. 7314619). Williams, John A.
George Floyd protests Part of the United States racial unrest (2020–2023) and the Black Lives Matter movement Clockwise from top: Protesters in Minneapolis where George Floyd was murdered and the unrest began Police and National Guard at a protest in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Bystanders and firefighters at a torched street in Minneapolis Protest near the Multnomah County Justice Center in ...
0–9. 1889 Forrest City riot; 1891 New Orleans lynchings; 1917 Chester race riot; 1966 Chicago West Side riots; 1966 Dayton race riot; 1967 Atlanta riots