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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 ...
The 1967 Detroit riot, also known as the 12th Street Riot and the Detroit Uprising, was the bloodiest of the urban riots in the United States during the "long, hot summer of 1967". [3] Composed mainly of confrontations between African American residents and the Detroit Police Department , it began in the early morning hours of Sunday July 23 ...
Three sworn personnel were killed in the riots: a Los Angeles Fire Department firefighter was struck when a wall of a fire-weakened structure fell on him while fighting fires in a store, [40] a Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputy was accidentally shot by another deputy while in a struggle with rioters, [41] and a Long Beach Police Department ...
Spillover from Detroit riot. The riot area was bounded by Wealthy Street on the north, Division Avenue on the west, Lafayette Avenue on the east, and Hall Street on the south. [65] National Guardsmen and State police were deployed as arson and looting went on for several days. Pontiac, MI: 63. ~July 23: 2: 25: Spillover from Detroit riot.
The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, known as the Kerner Commission after its chair, Governor Otto Kerner Jr. of Illinois, was an 11-member Presidential Commission established in July 1967 by President Lyndon B. Johnson in Executive Order 11365 to investigate the causes of over 150 riots throughout the country in 1967 and to provide recommendations that would prevent them from ...
Politicians, and many whites, called the violent event a riot, a mad orgy of lawlessness. Activists, and many Blacks, called the civil unrest a rebellion, a predictable response to decades of ...
Rapid urbanization has led to the rise of urban riots, often inner city. John F. McDonald and Daniel P. McMillen have identified Los Angeles's Watts Riots, in 1965, as the first "urban riots" in the United States. They were a part of what were known as race riots of the civil rights period. These riots in particular culminated in 1968–1969.
1871 – Los Angeles anti-Chinese riot, Los Angeles, California; 1873 – Colfax massacre, April 13, Colfax, Louisiana (race related) 1874 – Coushatta massacre, August, An attack by the White League on Republican officeholders and freedmen, Coushatta, Louisiana; 1874 – Election Riot of 1874, Barbour County, Alabama (race related)