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On October 6, 1969, the statue commemorating the policemen killed in the 1886 Haymarket affair in Chicago was blown up by a group including William Ayers. [7] The blast broke nearly 100 windows and scattered pieces of the statue onto the Kennedy Expressway below; [8] no one was ever arrested for the bombing. [9]
1968 Chicago riots - One of the over 100 riots that erupted nationwide after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Most of the Chicago rioting occurred on the West Side and was the second deadliest (11 fatalities, versus 13 in the Washington D.C. riots) of the riots in the nation after King's death. 11 500 August 23–28, 1968 Political
1968 – 1968 Democratic National Convention protests, including the police riots of August 27–28, Chicago, Illinois; 1969 – Zip to Zap riot, May 9–11, Zap, North Dakota; 1969 – People's Park Riots, May, Berkeley, California; 1969 – 1969 Greensboro uprising, May 21–25, Greensboro, North Carolina
NYT, 7/27/70] On the same day, a branch of the Bank of America is bombed in New York. [15] July 28 - Bank of America HQ in NYC is bombed around 3:50 AM. WUO claims responsibility. [17] September 15 – The WUO helps Dr. Timothy Leary escape from the California Men's Colony prison. [18] October 6 - Second bombing of Chicago's Haymarket Police ...
Lee Weiner was born in 1939 [4]: 13 and raised on the South Side of Chicago. [4]: 13–14, 20 Weiner is the only member of the Chicago Seven from Chicago.[3] [5] When the trial of the Chicago Seven began in September 1969, Weiner was a doctoral candidate and teaching assistant at Northwestern University, had previously graduated from the University of Illinois, studied political philosophy at ...
On June 28, 1969, an 18-year-old Mark Segal was one of the many LGBTQ people outside Stonewall Inn, where a stand was being taken against the latest police raid of one of the community’s few ...
Pages in category "1969 riots" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9. 13 May incident;
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 ...