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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 ]
Riots occurred almost daily starting on April 7 and continued until late July. 21 416 July 27 – August 3, 1919 Racial Chicago race riot of 1919 - The deadliest of wave of race riots across America during the Red Summer of 1919. Started after a black swimmer drowned at a segregated beach after being hit by a rock thrown by a white man.
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
When the News Broke: Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-76852-6 – via Google Books. Kusch, Frank (2008). Battleground Chicago: the Police and the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-46503-6 – via Google Books. Mailer, Norman ...
Stonewall Inn, the iconic site of the 1969 riots, may be forced to shut down. Alexander Kacala. June 26, 2020 at 6:22 PM ... Our movement literally started at a bar, at the Stonewall Inn in 1969 ...
The 1968 Chicago riots, in the United States, were sparked in part by the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Rioting and looting followed, with people flooding out onto the streets of major cities, primarily in black urban areas. [1] Over 100 major U.S. cities experienced disturbances, resulting in roughly $50 million in damage.
Schools here began commemorating the occasion in 1969. They wouldn’t, however, close for the day until Gov. Dan Walker made it a legal holiday on Sept. 17, 1973. The bill’s sponsor: Illinois ...
Poster in support of the "Conspiracy 8" The Chicago Seven, originally the Chicago Eight and also known as the Conspiracy Eight or Conspiracy Seven, were seven defendants – Rennie Davis, David Dellinger, John Froines, Tom Hayden, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, and Lee Weiner – charged by the United States Department of Justice with conspiracy, crossing state lines with intent to incite a riot ...