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The same strategy was repeated less than a week later when SCLC activists performed a "wade-in" at the whites-only St. Augustine beach. On this occasion, violence broke out when the protesters were attacked by segregationists and multiple arrests were made by Florida Highway Patrol officers. [42]
During the 1980s and '90s a number of riots occurred that were related to longstanding racial tensions between police and minority communities. The 1980 Miami riots were catalyzed by the killing of an African-American motorist by four white Miami-Dade Police officers. They were subsequently acquitted on charges of manslaughter and evidence ...
Johnnie Mae Chappell (c. 1929 – March 23, 1964) was an American murder victim during race riots in Jacksonville, Florida, killed by a gunshot from a passing car.After evidence and documents went missing her killer was charged with manslaughter - only serving three years in prison - and the other passengers were never charged.
Violence began when the Rochester Police Department attempted to make an arrest at a block party on July 24, 1964. The riot lasted until July 26 and resulted in five deaths, four of which occurred in a helicopter crash in the city, as well as over 300 injuries and 900 arrests.
Ax Handle Saturday, also known as the Jacksonville riot of 1960, was a racially motivated attack in Hemming Park (since renamed James Weldon Johnson Park) in Jacksonville, Florida, on August 27, 1960. A group of about 200 white men used baseball bats and ax handles to attack black people who were in sit-in protests opposing racial segregation.
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The 1970 riots were race riots that began in the Brownsville neighborhood of Miami in shootings that injured six people, of four blacks and two whites and then spread to the neighborhoods of Liberty City and Coconut Grove despite a curfew in place. Six blacks were injured in clashes with police followed by sniper fire and firebombing attacks ...
During the violence that happened over two days – May 31 and June 1, 1921 – a White mob destroyed an affluent Black community. As many as 300 people were killed.