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The Hard Hat Riot occurred in New York City on May 8, 1970, ... The NYPD "buried most records of police malfeasance", according to Kuhn's The Hardhat Riot, ...
1970 — Hard Hat Riot, Wall Street, May 8, New York City; 1970 — Jackson State killings, May 14—15, two killed, Jackson, Mississippi; 1970 — Stoneman Meadow Riot, July 4, 1970, Yosemite, California; 1970 — 1970 Asbury Park race riots, July 4—10, Asbury Park, New Jersey; 1970 — 1970 Memorial Park riot, August 24—27, Royal Oak ...
1922 – Straw Hat Riot, occurred September 13 and 14 when gangs of boys stole hats throughout the city and assaulted those who resisted [13] 1926 – Harlem Riots of July 1926. between unemployed Jews and Puerto Ricans over jobs and housing. This riot started on One Hundred and Fifteenth Street (115th), between Lenox and Park Avenues.
Protesters and hard hats square off in front of Federal Hall, May 8, 1970. (Daily News Photo/) It first came to a head at Columbia on April 30, 1968, when protesters occupied university buildings.
May 8, in New York City, the Hard Hat Riot occurs after a student anti-war demonstration in which workers attack them and riot for two hours. May 8. Jim Cairns, a member of the Australian parliament, leads over 100,000 people in a demonstration in Melbourne. [39] Smaller protests were also held on the same day in every state capital of ...
Nearly two weeks after the "Hard Hat Riot" broke up an anti-war student protest at New York's City Hall Park, a pro-war rally attracted 150,000 people to the same location, with a crowd that included blue collar workers and union members who supported the Nixon administration's policies in the Vietnam War. [119]
Shortly after the Kent State shootings, construction workers in Manhattan assaulted antiwar protestors in what became known as the "Hard Hat Riot.” Nixon promptly invited the leaders of their ...
It documents two protest rallies against the Vietnam War that took place in May 1970: the Hard Hat Riot on Wall Street in New York City and Kent State/Cambodia Incursion Protest in Washington, D.C. The numerous camera operators do impromptu interviews with the protesters and the spectators.