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The Astor Place Riot occurred on May 10, 1849, at the now-demolished Astor Opera House [1] in Manhattan and left between 22 and 31 rioters dead, and more than 120 people injured. [2] It was the deadliest to that date of a number of civic disturbances in Manhattan, which generally pitted immigrants and nativists against each other, or together ...
1837 – Flour Riots, occurred February 12, when merchant stores were sacked, destroying or looting 500-600 barrels of flour and 1,000 bushels of wheat [4] 1844 – Brooklyn riot, occurred on April 4 between nativists and Irish immigrants. [5] 1849 – Astor Place riot, occurred May 10 at the Astor Opera House between immigrants and nativists
Astor Place Riot: mass unrest 22–31 [85] [86] 1902 Park Avenue Hotel fire: fire 21 [87] 1908 Gold Street explosion: explosion 20+ [88] [89] 1905 Allen Street tenement fire: fire 20+ [90] 1957 Northeast Airlines Flight 823: aircraft 20 [91] 1860 Elm Street tenement fire: fire 20 [92]: 30 1937 New Brighton tenement collapse: structural collapse ...
Zoot Suit Riots (ABC-CLIO 2014), Hispanics in Los Angeles in 1940s. Chicago Commission on Race Relations. The Negro in Chicago: A Study of Race Relations and a Race Riot (1922) on Chicago race riot of 1919; Dobrin, Adam, ed. Statistical handbook on violence in America (Oryx, 1996) hundreds of tables and charts, focused on late 20th century.
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Nevertheless, it was the deadly infamous Astor Place riot, only a year and a half after opening on May 10, 1849 which caused the theatre to close permanently – provoked by competing performances of Macbeth by English actor William Charles Macready (1793–1873), at the Opera House (which was then operating under the name "Astor Place Theatre ...
'Zoot Suit' is by far the most influential play by a Chicano writer, and the only one to reach Broadway. It changed Los Angeles' historical memory and the American theater forever