List of Race Riots in the United States
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Main article: Mass racial violence in the United States
Further information: List of riots and civil unrest in Omaha, Nebraska
Nativist Period 1700’s-1860
- 1824: Providence, Rhode Island Hardscrabble Riots
- 1829: Cincinnati riots of 1829 Rioting against African Americans results in over a thousand leaving for Canada.
- 1829: Charlestown Anti-Catholic Riots
- 1831: Providence, Rhode Island
- 1834: Massachusetts Convent Burning
- 1834: Philadelphia pro-slavery riots
- 1835: Five Points Riot
- 1836: Cincinnati riots of 1836. Several anti-abolitionist riots took place
- 1841: Cincinnati, Ohio White Irish-descendant and Irish immigrant dock workers rioted against Black dock workers. When the Black dock workers banded together to defend their community from the approaching Whites, the White rioters retreated and then commandeered a 6-pound cannon and shot it through the streets of Cincinnati.
- 1844: Philadelphia Nativist Riots (May 68/July 58)
- 1851: Hoboken Anti-German Riot
- 1855: Louisville Anti-German Riots
- 1863: New York City Draft Riot
- 1863: Detroit Race Riot
- 1866: New Orleans Riot
- 1866: Memphis, Tennessee
- 1868: Pulaski Riot
- 1868: Opelousas, Louisiana
- 1868: Camilla, Georgia
- 1870: Eutaw, Alabama
- 1870: Laurens, South Carolina
- 1870: New York City Orange Riot
- 1871: Second New York City Orange Riot
- 1871: Los Angeles Anti-Chinese Riot
- 1871: Meridian, Mississippi
- 1891: New Orleans Anti-Italian Riot
- 1873: Colfax massacre
- 1874: Vicksburg, Mississippi
- 1874: New Orleans, Louisiana {Liberty place riot see}
- 1874: Coushatta, Louisiana
- 1875: Yazoo City, Mississippi
- 1875: Clinton, Mississippi
- 1876: Hamburg Massacre
- 1876: Ellenton, South Carolina
- 1885: Anti-Chinese riot in Rock Springs, Wyoming Territory
- 1886: Seattle riot of 1886
- 1898: Wilmington Insurrection of 1898
- 1898: Lake City, South Carolina
- 1898: Greenwood County, South Carolina
- 1900: Robert Charles Riots
- 1900: New York City, New York
- 1906: Atlanta Race Riot
- 1906: Brownsville, Texas
- 1907: Onancock, Virginia
- 1908: Springfield Race Riot of 1908
- 1909: Omaha, Nebraska anti-Greek riot
- 1910: Nationwide riots following the heavyweight championship fight between Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries in Reno, Nevada on July 4
- 1917: East St. Louis Riot
- 1917: Chester, Pennsylvania
- 1917: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- 1917: Houston Riot
- Red Summer of 1919
- 1919: Washington, D.C.
- 1919: Chicago Race Riot of 1919
- A white gang looking for blacks during the Chicago Race Riot of 1919
- 1919: Omaha Race Riot of 1919
- 1919: Charleston, South Carolina
- 1919: Longview, Texas
- 1919: Knoxville Riot of 1919
- 1919: Elaine Race Riot
- 1921: Tulsa race riot (Tulsa, Oklahoma)
- Buildings burning during the Tulsa race riot of 1921.
- 1923: Rosewood massacre (Rosewood, Florida)
- 1927: Yakima Valley Anti-Filipino Riot
- 1928: Wenatchee Valley Anti-Filipino Riot
- 1929: Exeter Anti-Filipino Riot
- 1930: Watsonville Anti-Filipino Riots, which inspired race riots in San Francisco, Salinas and San Jose and attacks elsewhere.
- 1935: Harlem Riot of 1935
- 1943: Detroit Race Riot
- 1943: Beaumont Race Riot of 1943
- 1943: Harlem Riot of 1943
- 1943: Zoot Suit Riots
- 1946: Columbia, Tennessee Riot
- 1958: Battle of Hayes Pond (Maxton, North Carolina)
- 1963: Cambridge riot of 1963 (Cambridge, Maryland)
- 1964: Harlem Riot of 1964 (Harlem neighborhood, Manhattan, New York City)
- 1964: Rochester riot (Rochester, New York)
- 1964: Philadelphia 1964 race riot (North Philadelphia section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
- 1965: Watts Riots (Watts neighborhood, Los Angeles, California)
- 1966: Division Street Riots (Humboldt Park neighborhood, Chicago, Illinois)
- 1966: Hough Riots (Hough community, Cleveland, Ohio)
- 1966: North Omaha, Nebraska (North Omaha community, Omaha, Nebraska)
- Long Hot Summer of 1967
- 1967: Tampa Riots, (Tampa, Florida)
- 1967: Texas Southern University Riot (Houston, Texas)
- 1967: 1967 Detroit riot (Detroit, Michigan)
- 1967: Buffalo riot (Buffalo, NewYork)
- 1967: Milwaukee Riot (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
- 1967: Minneapolis North Side Riots (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
- 1967: 1967 Newark riots (Newark, New Jersey)
- 1967: Plainfield riots (Plainfield, New Jersey)
- 1968: Orangeburg massacre (Orangeburg, South Carolina)
- 1968: Nationwide riots following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- 1968: Baltimore riot of 1968 (Baltimore, Maryland)
- 1968: Chicago (April 1968) (Chicago, Illinois)
- 1968: Louisville riots of 1968 (Louisville, Kentucky)
- 1968: 1968 Washington, D.C. riots (Washington, D.C.)
- 1969: 1969 York Race Riot (York, Pennsylvania
- 1969: Stonewall riots (Greenwich Village neighborhood, Manhattan, New York City, New York)
- 1970: Jackson State killings (Jackson, Mississippi)
- 1971: Camden Riots (Camden, New Jersey)
- 1972-1977: Escambia High School riots (Pensacola, Florida)
- 1980: Miami Riots (Miami, Florida)
- 1980: Chattanooga Riot (Chattanooga, Tennessee)
- 1984: Lawrence, Massachusetts Race Riot: A small scale riot centered at the intersection of Haverhill and railroad streets between working class whites and Hispanics; several buildings were destroyed by Molotov cocktails; August 8, 1984.
- 1990: Inglewood High School riot (Inglewood, California): A riot that broke out in front of the school between 30 Latinos and blacks after the black students leave the Cinco de Mayo day as revenge for running out on Black History Day.
- 1991: Crown Heights riot (Crown Heights neighborhood, Brooklyn, New York)
- 1992: Los Angeles Riots (Los Angeles, California): In a reaction to the acquittal of all LA police officers involved in the videotaped beating of Rodney King; riots broke out mainly involving black youths in the black neighborhoods and shop owners in Korean neighborhoods.
- 1996: St. Petersburg Riots (St. Petersburg, Florida): After Officer Jim Knight stopped 18 yr. old Tyron Lewis for speeding, his car lurched forward causing Knight to fire his weapon, fatally wounding the black teenager. Riots broke out and lasted for about 2 days.
- 2001: 2001 Cincinnati riots (Cincinnati, Ohio): In a reaction to the acquittal of Steven Roach after the fatal shooting of an unarmed young black male, Timothy Thomas, during a foot pursuit, riots broke out over the span of a few days.
- 2003: Benton Harbor riots (Benton Harbor, Michigan)
- 2005: 2005 Toledo Riot (Toledo, Ohio): A race riot that broke out after the Neo-Nazi protest marched through a black neighborhood.
- 2006: Fontana High School riot (Fontana, California): Riot involving about 500 Latino and black students
- 2006: Prison Race Riots (California): A war between Latino and black prison gangs set off a series of riots across California
- 2008: Locke High School riot(Los Angeles, California)
- 2008: Hempstead High School riot (Hempstead, New York): Two days of fighting between Hispanic and black students.
- 2009: 2009 Oakland Riots (Oakland, California): Peaceful protests turned into rioting after the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man, Oscar Grant, by a BART transit policeman.
- 2010: Hempstead High School riot (Hempstead, New York): A whole week Of fighting between Latinos and blacks.
Civil War Period 1861-1865
Reconstruction Period: 1865 – 1877
Jim Crow Period: 1878 – 1914
War and Inter-War Period: 1914 – 1945
Postwar era: 1946 – 1954
Civil Rights and Black Power Movement’s Period: 1955 – 1977
Modern
References
- ^ How China’s taking over Africa, and why the West should be VERY worried
- ^ Rebelions in Bahia
- ^ Roma riots stir unease in Bulgaria
- ^ YFile: York’s Daily Bulletin. 1918 anti-Greek riot a dark episode in Torontos history. Friday October 22, 2004.
- ^ Xinjiang, China’s Restive Northwest
- ^ ‘Race killing’ sparks French riot
- ^ Indonesia Turns Its Chinese Into Scapegoats, New York Times
- ^ Anti-Chinese riots continue in Indonesia, CNN
- ^ Acre faces fourth night of riots, Al Jazeera English
- ^ Israeli City Divided by Sectarian Violence, New York Times, October 12, 2008
- ^ Police arrest Acre Yom Kippur driver, Jpost, October 12, 2008
- ^ Milan police in Chinatown clash
- ^ Milan Chinese riot over traffic fine
- ^ Mafia killing of immigrants sparks riots near Naples
- ^ Rwanda Syndrome on the Ivory Coast
- ^ France’s ‘Little Iraq’
- ^ LESOTHO: Anti-Chinese resentment flares
- ^ Timeline: Mauritania
- ^ Ethnic Riots after Dutchman is Killed by Police
- ^ Moroccan-Dutch youth riot in Amsterdam following fatal incident
- ^ “The Pacific Proxy: China vs Taiwan”, Graeme Dobell, ABC Radio Australia, February 7, 2007
- ^ The Durban Riot 1949
- ^ Current Africa race riots like 1949 anti-Indian riots: minister, TheIndianStar.com
- ^ 27 held after anti-Somali riot: South Africa
- ^ Focus on Mesketian Turks
- ^ Spain struggles with race riots
- ^ Spanish youth clash with immigrant gangs
- ^ African immigrants riot in Spain, BBC NEWS
- ^ Country Histories – Empire’s Children
- ^ Heartman, Adam (2006-09-26). “A Homemade Genocide”. Whose Fault Is It? http://whosfaultisit.blogspot.com/2006/09/homemade-genocide-arab-world-is.html.
- ^ “Chinese stores looted in Tonga riots”, People’s Daily, November 17, 2006
- ^ Race riot rocks town, Turkish Daily News, October 4, 2008
- ^ Race clashes hit Windsor
- ^ Evan Carton, Patriotic Treason: John Brown and the Soul of America, at 59 (Free Press 2006); see also http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/policing.cfm
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- ^ No deaths were reported, but all Chinese and most other Asians were expelled from Seattle and Tacoma. Schwantes, Carlos A. “Protest in a Promised Land: Unemployment, Disinheritance, and the Origin of Labor Militancy in the Pacific Northwest, 1885-1886.” Western Historical Quarterly. 13:4 (October 1982).
- ^ Thirty African Americans died. Robert A. Gibson, The Negro Holocaust: Lynching and Race Riots in the United States, 1880-1950, Yale University, 1979.
- ^ Ten African Americans and two Caucasians died. Robert A. Gibson, The Negro Holocaust: Lynching and Race Riots in the United States, 1880-1950, Yale University, 1979.
- ^ Two African Americans and four Caucasians died. Robert A. Gibson, The Negro Holocaust: Lynching and Race Riots in the United States, 1880-1950, Yale University, 1979; Roberta Senechal, “Springfield Race Riot of 1908,” Illinois History Teacher, Summer/Fall 1996.
- ^ According to federal, state and local government investigators, only 39 African Americans died. But civilian investigations shortly after the riot indicate that between 100 and 200 African Americans died. The riot was notable for its brutality, including scalping, gouging out of eyes, and children act as murderers. Elliott M. Rudwick, Race Riot at East St. Louis, Southern Illinois University Press, 1964.
- ^ Twenty-three African Americans and 15 Caucasians died. Robert A. Gibson, The Negro Holocaust: Lynching and Race Riots in the United States, 1880-1950, Yale University, 1979.
- ^ Officially, only 39 African Americans died. But more recent estimates are that between 150 and 200 African Americans and 50 Caucasians died, and some sources put the number of black dead at 300. James S. Hirsch, Riot and Remembrance: America’s Worst Race Riot and Its Legacy, Mariner Books, 2003. ISBN 0-618-34076-9; Robert A. Gibson, The Negro Holocaust: Lynching and Race Riots in the United States, 1880-1950, Yale University, 1979.
- ^ Officially, six African Americans and two Caucasians died. However, there is disagreement about the number of dead, and some estimates place the number of black dead between 40 and 150. Michael D’Orso, Like Judgment Day: The Ruin and Redemption of a Town Called Rosewood, Putnam Books, 1996. ISBN 1-57297-256-4.
- ^ http://www.pinnaclenews.com/life/contentview.asp?c=198024
- ^ Twenty-five African Americans and nine Caucasians died. Robert A. Gibson, The Negro Holocaust: Lynching and Race Riots in the United States, 1880-1950, Yale University, 1979.
- ^ http://openvault.wgbh.org/ton/mla000400/index.html
- ^ San Bernardino County Sun – Fontana students blame riot on simmering racial tension
- ^ More Injuries as Race Riots Disrupt Jails in Los Angeles
- ^ Race riot put down at California state prison
- ^ Locke High School locked down after huge brawl, Los Angeles Times
- ^ Hempstead High On Guard Following 2 Days Of Brawls, wcbstv.com, October 21, 2008