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Chicago 1964 race riot, Dixmoor race riot, August 16–17, Chicago Watts riot of 1965 ; Los Angeles, California – August: This predominately African-American neighborhood exploded with violence from August 11 to August 17 after the arrest of 21-year old Marquette Frye, a Black motorist who was arrested by a white highway patrolman.
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]
The summer race riots that engulfed the nation in waves of violence had a grim and harrowing spark – a mass stabbing at a dance class in the seaside town of Southport, carried out by a teenager ...
The Justice Department provided new insight and chilling details about the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, describing the two-day raid that killed 300 Black residents and destroyed their businesses as a ...
1949 – Fairground Park riot, June 21, St. Louis Missouri (race riot) 1949 – Anacostia Pool Riot, June 29, Anacostia, Washington, D.C. (race riot) 1949 – Peekskill riots, Peekskill, New York (race riot) 1949 – Englewood race riot, November 8–12, Englewood, Chicago, IL
A century ago, the Spruce Pine Rioters marched Black workers out of NC’s Mitchell County at gunpoint, and an escapee went to the electric chair.
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 ...