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The Philadelphia race riot, or Columbia Avenue Riot, took place in the predominantly black neighborhoods of North Philadelphia from August 28 to August 30, 1964. Tensions between black residents of the city and police had been escalating for several months over several well-publicized allegations of police brutality.
Pennsylvania Hall riot, an 1838 riot where a venue was attacked by anti-abolitionists; Lombard Street riot, an 1842 riot where black freemen were attacked by an Irish Catholic mob; Philadelphia nativist riots, in May and June 1844, against Irish Catholic immigrants; Race riots in Philadelphia during the 1919 Red Summer, a series of riots ...
1964 – Philadelphia 1964 race riot, August 28–30, Philadelphia; 1965 – Selma to Montgomery marches, March 7–25, Alabama; 1965 – Watts riots, August 11–17, Los Angeles, California (part of the ghetto riots) 1966 – Division Street riots, June 12–14, Humboldt Park, Chicago, Illinois (Puerto Rican riots)
When whites riot : writing race and violence in American and South African cultures (2001) online; Werner, John Melvin. "Race riots in the United States during the age of Jackson: 1824-1849" (PhD dissertation, Indiana University; ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1972. 7314619). Williams, John A.
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 ...
Logan, John R., and Benjamin Bellman. "Before the Philadelphia Negro: Residential segregation in a nineteenth-century northern city." Social Science History 40.4 (2016): 683–706. online; Loughran, Kevin. "The Philadelphia Negro and the canon of classical urban theory." Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race 12.2 (2015): 249–267 ...
As more and more African-Americans moved from the south to the industrial north, they started to move into predominantly white neighborhoods.In 1918, for four days starting July 25, there was a race riot in Chester and Philadelphia. [1]
The 1834 Philadelphia race riot, also known as the Flying Horses riot, [1] [2] was an instance of communal violence in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.The riot, in which a mob of several hundred white people attacked African Americans living in the area, began on the evening of August 12 and lasted for several days, dying down by August 14.