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A riot occurred in the Cobble Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, United States, on August 4, 1862.It involved a group of White Americans, largely consisting of Irish Americans, targeting a group of about 20 African American workers at a tobacco factory on Sedgwick Street.
The 1917 Chester race riot was a race riot in Chester, Pennsylvania, that took place over four days in July 1917.Racial tensions increased greatly during the World War I industrial boom due to white hostility toward the large influx of southern blacks who moved North as part of the Great Migration.
The Springfield race riot of 1908 consisted of events of mass racial violence committed against African Americans by a mob of about 5,000 white Americans and European immigrants in Springfield, Illinois, between August 14 and 16, 1908. Two black men had been arrested as suspects in a rape, and attempted rape and murder.
The 1943 Detroit race riot took place in Detroit, Michigan, from the evening of June 20 through to the early morning of June 22. It occurred in a period of dramatic population increase and social tensions associated with the military buildup of U.S. participation in World War II , as Detroit's automotive industry was converted to the war effort .
The Chicago race riot of 1919 was a violent racial conflict between white Americans and black Americans that began on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, on July 27 and ended on August 3, 1919. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] During the riot, 38 people died (23 black and 15 white). [ 3 ]
The Syracuse riot of 1919 was a violent racial attack that occurred when the management of the Globe Malleable Iron Works pitted striking white unionized workers against black strikebreakers in Syracuse, New York on July 31, 1919.
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The Watsonville riots was a period of racial violence that took place in Watsonville, California, from January 19 to 23, 1930.Involving violent assaults on Filipino American farm workers by local white residents opposed to immigration, the riots highlighted the racial and socioeconomic tensions in California's agricultural communities.