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Kenneth W. Milano's Encyclopaedia Kensingtoniana entry for Kensington Anti-Irish Catholic Riots May 1844; The Philadelphia Bible Riots of 1844; The truth unveiled, or, A calm and impartial exposition of the origin and immediate cause of the terrible riots in Philadelphia on May 6th, 7th, and 8th, A.D. 1844 by John Perry (1844) Call number 7255318
The term Know-Nothing Riot has been used to refer to a number of political uprisings of the Know Nothing Party in the United States of the mid-19th century. These anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic protests culminated into riots in Philadelphia in 1844; St. Louis in 1854, Cincinnati and Louisville in 1855; Baltimore in 1856; Washington, D.C., and New York City in 1857; and New Orleans in 1858.
The July 7, 1844 riot in Southwark. The Philadelphia Nativist Riots were a series of riots that took place between May 6 and 8 and July 6 and 7, 1844 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States and the adjacent districts of Kensington and Southwark.
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 against Southern black migration to the city; 1964 Philadelphia race riot, one of the first in the civil rights era, triggered by police brutality; George Floyd protests in Philadelphia ...
In 1844 the Order of United Americans was founded as a nativist fraternity, following the Philadelphia Nativist Riots. [ 16 ] The nativists went public in 1854 when they formed the "American Party", which was especially hostile to the immigration of Irish Catholics, and campaigned for laws to require longer wait time between immigration and ...
1844 – May–July: Philadelphia Nativist Riots. 1845 – American Literary Union organized. [37] 1848 ... Wilstach Gallery opens in West Fairmount Park. [58] 1897 ...
The American Party, known as the Native American Party before 1855 [a] and colloquially referred to as the Know Nothings, or the Know Nothing Party, was an Old Stock nativist political movement in the United States in the 1850s.
Despite some initial success of the party, it lost public support following the Philadelphia nativist riots of 1844 during which American Republican Party members were involved in burning down two Catholic churches. [2] Its founders included Lewis Charles Levin, Samuel Kramer, "General" Peter Sken Smith, James Wallace, and John Gitron. [4]