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  2. New York City draft riots - Wikipedia

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    The New York City draft riots (July 13–16, 1863), sometimes referred to as the Manhattan draft riots and known at the time as Draft Week, [3] were violent disturbances in Lower Manhattan, widely regarded as the culmination of working-class discontent with new laws passed by Congress that year to draft men to fight in the ongoing American ...

  3. List of incidents of civil unrest in New York City - Wikipedia

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    1862 – Brooklyn Riot of 1862 occurred August 4 between the New York Metropolitan Police against a white mob attacking African American strike-breakers at a Tobacco Factory [8] 1863 – New York City draft riots, occurred July 13 through 16 in response to government efforts to draft men to fight in the ongoing American Civil War. [9]

  4. John Alexander Kennedy - Wikipedia

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    John Alexander Kennedy (August 9, 1803 – June 20, 1873) was the superintendent of police for New York City, from 1860 to 1863. [1] He was in charge of the police response to the New York City draft riots in 1863, until he was badly beaten by the mobs. [2]

  5. List of incidents of civil unrest in the United States

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    The New York City Draft Riots: Their Significance for American Society and Politics in the Age of the Civil War (Oxford UP, 1991) online; Brophy, Alfred L. and Randall Kennedy. Reconstructing the Dreamland: The Tulsa Riot of 1921: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation (Oxford UP, 2003) Brown, Richard Maxwell.

  6. Inside the yearslong fight to preserve a once-segregated New ...

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    A New York City historian is fighting to preserve a school building whose past is tied to a dark moment in American history. Eric K. Inside the yearslong fight to preserve a once-segregated New ...

  7. New York City in the American Civil War - Wikipedia

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    The New York Draft Riot of 1863, provoked by fears of labor competition and resentment of wealthy men being able to buy their way out of the draft, was one of the worst incidents of civil unrest in American history and featured widespread ethnic Irish violence against blacks in the city.

  8. A site of segregation in New York City is becoming a landmark

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    A New York City commission voted unanimously on Tuesday to preserve a school built for Black children during the era of slavery, by deeming the yellow-brick building a landmark.

  9. How the police showdown at Columbia University unfolded

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    The first sign that the weekslong standoff at Columbia University was nearing a dramatic finale came after dusk, when New York City police officers clad in riot gear began massing south of the ...