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The Philadelphia nativist riots (also known as the Philadelphia Prayer Riots, the Bible Riots and the Native American Riots) were a series of riots that took place on May 6—8 and July 6—7, 1844, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States and the adjacent districts of Kensington and Southwark.
The term Know-Nothing Riot has been used to refer to a number of political uprisings of the Know Nothing Party in the United States of the mid-19th century. These anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic protests culminated into riots in Philadelphia in 1844; St. Louis in 1854, Cincinnati and Louisville in 1855; Baltimore in 1856; Washington, D.C., and New York City in 1857; and New Orleans in 1858.
In 1844 the Order of United Americans was founded as a nativist fraternity, following the Philadelphia Nativist Riots. [ 16 ] The nativists went public in 1854 when they formed the "American Party", which was especially hostile to the immigration of Irish Catholics, and campaigned for laws to require longer wait time between immigration and ...
Philadelphia nativist riots, in May and June 1844, against Irish Catholic immigrants; Race riots in Philadelphia during the 1919 Red Summer, a series of riots against Southern black migration to the city; 1964 Philadelphia race riot, one of the first in the civil rights era, triggered by police brutality; George Floyd protests in Philadelphia ...
1842 – Lombard Street Riot, (a.k.a. the Abolition Riots), August 1, Philadelphia; 1842 – Muncy Abolition riot of 1842; 1844 – Philadelphia Nativist Riots, May 6–8, July 6–7, Philadelphia (anti-Catholic) 1845 – Milwaukee Bridge War; 1849 – Astor Place riot, May 10, New York City, (anti-British)
View of the churchyard at St. Michael's Church. The initial church was destroyed in the Nativist Riots of 1844. The unrest began when the Catholic Bishop Francis Kenrick petitioned the Public School Board to allow use of the Douay-Rheims (Catholic) translation of the Bible by Catholic students, instead of forcing them to use the Authorized (King James/Protestant) Version as did other students.
1844: Philadelphia Nativist Riots (May 6–8 and July 5–8), Philadelphia; 1844: Brooklyn riot, occurred on April 4 between nativists and Irish immigrants. [49] 1846: Nativist riot, (Boston, Massachusetts) [45] 1849: Astor Place riot, between immigrants and nativists; 1851: Hoboken anti-German riot
The Fires of Philadelphia: Citizen-Soldiers, Nativists, and the 1844 Riots Over the Soul of a Nation (Pegasus Books, 2021) ISBN 9781643137285; chapter 7 on Kenrick. Spalding, Thomas W. The Premier See: A History of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, 1789-1989 (1989)