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Zoot Suit Riots (ABC-CLIO 2014), Hispanics in Los Angeles in 1940s. Chicago Commission on Race Relations. The Negro in Chicago: A Study of Race Relations and a Race Riot (1922) on Chicago race riot of 1919; Dobrin, Adam, ed. Statistical handbook on violence in America (Oryx, 1996) hundreds of tables and charts, focused on late 20th century.
1676 - Bacon's Rebellion, Sept 19, Rebels burn down colonial capital, Virginia Colony. 1677 - Culpeper's Rebellion, 1677–1678, Revolt against the ruling Lords Proprietors in Albemarle County, Province of Carolina, near what is now Elizabeth City, North Carolina. 1680 - Pueblo Revolt. 1689 - Cochecho Massacre, June 28.
The Pine Tree Riot was an act of resistance to British royal authority undertaken by American colonists in Weare, New Hampshire, on April 14, 1772, [2] placing it among the disputes between Crown and colonists that culminated in the American Revolution.
Theft of corpses by doctors. Casualties. Death (s) 6-20. The doctors' riot was an incident that occurred in April 1788 in New York City, where the illegal procurement of corpses from the graves of the recently deceased caused a mass expression of discontent from poorer New Yorkers that was directed primarily at physicians and medical students .
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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.
Ku Klux Klan (alleged) The Birmingham riot of 1963 was a civil disorder and riot in Birmingham, Alabama, that was provoked by bombings on the night of May 11, 1963. The bombings targeted African-American leaders of the Birmingham campaign. In response, local African-Americans burned businesses and fought police throughout the downtown area.
They are considered the first race riots in Canada, and are one of the earliest recorded race riots in North America. [14] 1835–45 Shiners' War: Riot over a black person taking up a military uniform in 1852 in St. Catharines, Ontario. Riot over a black man marrying a white woman in 1860 in Chatham, Ontario.