So you think the Racial Divide is at a new zenith? Think again, its been going on in America since 1776. Timeline of events Nativist Period 1700s-1860 1829: Cincinnati Riot of 1829 (Cincinnati, Ohio) Rioting against African-Americans results in thousands leaving for Canada. 1829: Charlestown Anti-Catholic Riots (Charlestown, Massachusetts) 1834: Massachusetts Convent Burning 1835: Five Points Riot (New York City) 1841: Cincinnati Riot of 1841 (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1844: Philadelphia Nativist Riots (May 6–8/July 5–8) 1851: Hoboken Anti-German Riot 1855: Bloody Monday (Louisville, KY Anti-German Riots) Civil War Period 1861-1865 1863: Detroit Race Riot 1863: New York City Draft Riot Post-Civil War / Reconstruction Period: 1865 - 1889 1866: New Orleans Riot (New Orleans, Louisiana) 1866: Memphis Riots of 1866 (Memphis, Tennessee) 1868: Pulaski Riot (Pulaski, Tennessee) 1868: Opelousas Massacre (Opelousas, Louisiana) 1868: Camilla, Georgia 1868: Ward Island Riot Irish and German-American indigent immigrants, temporarily interned at Wards Island by the Commissioners of Emigration, begin rioting following an altercation between two residents, resulting in thirty men seriously wounded and around sixty arrested.[6] 1870: Eutaw, Alabama 1870: Laurens, South Carolina 1870: Kirk-Holden war: Alamance County, North Carolina Federal troops, led by Col. Kirk and requested by NC governor Holden, were sent to extinguish racial violence. Holden was eventually impeached because of the offensive. 1870: New York City Orange Riot 1871: Meridian race riot of 1871, Mississippi 1871: Second New York City Orange Riot 1871: Los Angeles Anti-Chinese Riot 1871: Scranton Coal Riot Violence occurs between striking members of a miners union in Scranton, Pennsylvania when Welsh miners attack Irish and German-American miners who chose to leave the union and accept the terms offered by local mining companies.[7] 1873: Colfax massacre (Colfax, Louisiana) 1874: Vicksburg, Mississippi 1874: New Orleans, Louisiana 1874: Coushatta massacre, Coushatta, Louisiana 1875: Yazoo City, Mississippi 1875: Clinton, Mississippi 1876: Statewide violence in South Carolina 1876: Hamburg, South Carolina 1876: Ellenton, South Carolina 1885: Rock Springs Massacre, Wyoming 1886: Pittsburgh Riot. 1887: Denver Riot of 1887 In one of the largest civil disturbances in the citys history, fighting between Swedish, Hungarian and Polish immigrants results in the shooting death of one man and injuring several others before broken up by police.[8] 1887: Thibodaux massacre, Thibodaux, Louisiana—strike of 10,000 sugar-cane workers which led to a mass killing of an estimated 50 African Americans Jim Crow Period: 1890 - 1914 Further information: Nadir of American race relations See also: Ku Klux Klan 1891: New Orleans Anti-Italian Riot A lynch mob storms a local jail and hangs several Italians following the acquittal of several Sicilian immigrants alleged to be involved in the murder of New Orleans police chief David Hennessy. 1891: 1st Omaha Race Riot 10,000 white people storm the local courthouse to beat and lynch Joe Coe, who was alleged to have raped a white child. 1894: Buffalo, NY Riot of 1894 Two groups of Irish and Italian-Americans are arrested by police after a half hour of hurling bricks and shooting at each other resulting from a barroom brawl when visiting Italian patrons refused to pay for their drinks at a local saloon. After the mob is dispersed by police, five Italians are arrested while two others are sent to a local hospital.[9] 1894: Bituminous Coal Miners Strike Much of the violence in this national strike was not specifically racial, but in Iowa, where the employees of Consolidation Coal Company (Iowa) refused to join the strike, armed confrontation between strikers and strike breakers took on racial overtones because the majority of Consolidations employees were African American. The National Guard was mobilized just in time to avert open warfare.[10][11][12] 1898: Wilmington Race Riot 1898: Lake City, South Carolina 1898: Greenwood County, South Carolina 1899: Newburg, NY Riot Angered towards the recent hiring of African-American workers, a group of between 80 and 100 Arab laborers attack a group of African-American workers near the Freeman & Hammond brick yard with numerous men injured on both sides.[13] 1900: New Orleans, Louisiana : Robert Charles Riots 1900: New York City 1902: New York City Anti-Semitic riots involving Irish factory workers, city policemen and thousands of Jews attending Jacob Josephs funeral 1906: Little Rock, Arkansas Started when a white police officer in Argenta killed a black musician in a bathroom, causing the burning down of half a block of burned down commercial buildings and two black residencies, as well as the departure of many blacks as white men taking arms ran down the street.[14] 1906: Atlanta Riots, Georgia 1907: Bellingham Riots, Washington 1908: Springfield, Illinois 1909: Greek Town Riot A successful Greek immigrant community in South Omaha, Nebraska is burnt to the ground and its residents are forced to leave town.[15] 1910: Nationwide riots following the heavyweight championship fight between Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries in Reno, Nevada on July 4 War and Inter-War Period: 1914 - 1945 Further information: Nadir of American race relations 1917: East St. Louis, Illinois 1917: Chester, Pennsylvania 1917: Philadelphia 1917: Houston Riot (1917) Red Summer of 1919 1919: Washington, D.C. 1919: Chicago 1919: Omaha, Nebraska 1919: Charleston, South Carolina 1919: Longview, Texas 1919: Knoxville, Tennessee 1919: Elaine, Arkansas 1921: Tulsa, Oklahoma 1923: Rosewood, Florida (area is now an outgrowth of Cedar Key, Florida) 1927: Poughkeepsie, New York - A wave of civil unrest, violence and vandalism by local White mobs against Blacks, as well Greek, Jewish, Chinese and Puerto Rican targets in the community, though mostly directed at African-Americans.[citation needed] 1930: Watsonville, California 1935: Harlem Race Riot 1943: Detroit Race Riot 1943: Harlem Race Riot 1943: Zoot Suit Riots, Los Angeles, California 1944: Agana, Guam Civil Rights Movement and Black Power Period: 1955 - 1977 1964 Rochester 1964 race riot; Rochester, New York - July New York City 1964 riot; New York City - July Philadelphia 1964 race riot; Philadelphia - August Jersey City 1964 race riot, August 2–4, Jersey City, New Jersey Paterson 1964 race riot, August 11–13, Paterson, New Jersey Elizabeth 1964 race riot, August 11–13, Elizabeth, New Jersey Chicago 1964 race riot, Dixmoor riot, August 16–17, Chicago 1965 Watts Riots; Los Angeles, California - August 1966 Hough Riots; Cleveland, Ohio - July Hunters Point Riot; San Francisco Division Street Riots; Chicago - June 1967 1967 Newark riots; Newark, New Jersey - July 12th Street riot; Detroit, Michigan - July 1967 Plainfield riots; Plainfield, New Jersey - July Milwaukee riot; Milwaukee, Wisconsin - July 30–31 Minneapolis North Side Riots; Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota - August 1968 Orangeburg massacre; Orangeburg, South Carolina - February King assassination riots: 125 cities in April and May, in response to the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. including: Baltimore riot of 1968; Baltimore Maryland 1968 Washington, D.C. riots; Washington, D.C. 1968 New York City riot; New York City West Side Riots; Chicago Louisville riots of 1968; Louisville, Kentucky Hill District MLK riots; Pittsburgh, PA Summit, Illinois Race Riot at Argo High School, September 1968 1968 Democratic National Convention 1969 1969 York Race Riot; York, Pennsylvania - July 1970 May 11th Augusta Race Riot; Augusta, Georgia - May Jackson State killings; Jackson, Mississippi - May Asbury Park Riot; Asbury Park, New Jersey - July Chicano Moratorium, an anti Vietnam War protest turned riot in East Los Angeles - August 1971 Camden Riots, August 1971, Camden, New Jersey 1972 Escambia High School riots; Pensacola, Florida 1973 Santos Rodriguez riot, Dallas, Texas July 28, 1973. Riot after the March For Justice protesting Police Murder of Santos Rodríguez 1974-1988 Boston busing crisis 1977 New York City Blackout riot This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it. Since 1980 1980: Miami Riot 1980 - following the acquittal of four Miami-Dade Police officers in the death of Arthur McDuffie. McDuffie, an African-American, died from injuries sustained at the hands of four white officers trying to arrest him after a high-speed chase. 1991: Crown Heights Riot - May - between African Americans and the areas large Hasidic Jewish community, over the accidental killing of a Guyanese immigrant child by an Orthodox Jewish motorist. In its wake, several Jews were seriously injured; one Orthodox Jewish man, Yankel Rosenbaum, was killed; and a non-Jewish man, allegedly mistaken by rioters for a Jew, was killed by a group of African-American men. 1991: Overtown, Miami - In the heavily Black section against Cuban Americans, like earlier riots there in 1982 and 1984. 1992: 1992 Los Angeles riots - April 29 to May 5 - a series of riots, lootings, arsons and civil disturbance that occurred in Los Angeles County, California in 1992, following the acquittal of police officers on trial regarding the assault of Rodney King. 1992: Harlem, Manhattan in New York City - July - involved Blacks and Puerto Ricans against the New York Police Department, around the time of the 1992 Democratic National Convention being held there. 1995: St. Petersburg, Florida riot of 1996, caused by protests against racial profiling and police brutality. 2001: 2001 Cincinnati Riots - April - in the African-American section of Over-the-Rhine. 2005: Toledo, Ohio - Neo-Nazis and white supremacists marched in North Park, a mostly African-American section of town. 2009: Oakland, CA - Oscar Grant Murder Riots. 2014: 2014 Ferguson unrest - Clashes with law enforcement following the Shooting of Michael Brown
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