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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 ]
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; 1969 – Cairo disorders, May–December, Cairo, Illinois; 1969 – Stonewall riots, June 28 – July 2, New York City, New York; 1969 – 1969 York Race ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
For much of the past decade, policymakers and analysts have decried America's incredibly low savings rate, noting that U.S. households save a fraction of the money of the rest of the world.