166 Years of Riots and Protests in the U.S.
A demonstrator confronts police near Camden Yards during a protest against the death in police custody of Freddie Gray in Baltimore April 25, 2015. At least 2,000 people protesting the unexplained death of Gray, 25, while in police custody marched through downtown Baltimore on Saturday, pausing at one point to confront officers in front of Camden Yards, home of the Orioles baseball team.
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A University of California Davis police officer pepper-sprays students during their sit-in at an "Occupy UCD" demonstration in Davis, California November 18, 2011. UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi apologized to jeering students on November 21 for police use of pepper spray against campus protesters in a standoff captured by video and widely replayed on television and the Internet. Photo taken November 18, 2011. - Wikipedia
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Protestors surrounded the WTO Ministerial Conference on November 30, 1999 in Seattle, Washington in a massive anti-globalization movement. An estimated 40,000 people tried to disrupt the conference, which brought together finance ministers from all over the world.
On May 4, l970 members of the Ohio National Guard fired into a crowd of Kent State University demonstrators, killing four and wounding nine Kent State students. The impact of the shootings was dramatic. The event triggered a nationwide student strike that forced hundreds of colleges and universities to close. H. R. Haldeman, a top aide to President Richard Nixon, suggests the shootings had a direct impact on national politics. -Jerry M. Lewis and Thomas R. Hensley, Kent State
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The Stonewall riots were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the gay community against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. The photo by Bettye Lane is from a scene in Kate Davis and David Heilbroner’s documentary STONEWALL UPRISING.
Photo by Bettye Lane.
African-American teenager Vivian Strong was shot and killed by police officers in an incident at the Logan Fontenelle Housing Projects in June 1969. In response, young African Americans, led by the Black Association for Nationalism Through Unity (BANTU rioted throughout the Near North Side neighborhood, looting the North 24th Street business corridor. During this attack, eight businesses were destroyed. Rioting went on for several more days.
Photograph showing a soldier standing guard at 7th and N Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., with the ruins of buildings that were destroyed during the 1968 riots that followed the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The 1968 Democratic National Convention prompted a protest of "hippies" and other groups. In 1967, counterculture protest groups had been promising to come to Chicago and disrupt the convention, and the city promised to maintain law and order. For eight days, protesters and the Chicago Police Department fought in the streets of Chicago while the US Democratic Party met at the convention in the International Amphitheater. - Wikipedia
The 1967 Detroit riot, also known as the 12th Street riot, was a violent public disorder that turned into a civil disturbance in Detroit, Michigan. It began on a Saturday night in the early morning hours of July 23, 1967. The precipitating event was a police raid of an unlicensed, after-hours bar then known as a blind pig, on the corner of 12th (today Rosa Parks Boulevard) and Clairmount streets on the city's Near West Side. Police confrontations with patrons and observers on the street evolved into one of the deadliest and most destructive riots in United States history, lasting five days and surpassing the violence and property destruction of Detroit's 1943 race riot. - Wikipedia
The 1967 Newark riots were a major civil disturbance that occurred in the city of Newark, New Jersey between July 12 and July 17, 1967. The five days of rioting, looting, and destruction left 26 dead and hundreds injured.
The National Guard comes to Newark. Photo by Don Hogan Charles/The New York Times
On August 11, 1965, a black motorist was arrested for drunk-driving, and a minor roadside argument suddenly turned into a riot. There followed six days of looting and arson, especially of white-owned businesses, and police needed the support of nearly 4,000 members of the California Army National Guard. There were 34 deaths and over $40 million in property damage. The riots were blamed principally on unemployment, although a later investigation also highlighted police racism. It was the city's worst unrest until the Rodney King riots of 1992. - Wikipedia
On Thursday, July 16, 1964, James Powell was shot and killed by police Lieutenant Thomas Gilligan. The second bullet of three fired by Lieutenant Gilligan killed the 15-year-old African American in front of his friends and about a dozen other witnesses. The incident immediately rallied about 300 students from a nearby school who were informed by the principal. This incident set off six consecutive nights of rioting that affected the New York City neighborhoods of Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant. In total, 4,000 New Yorkers participated in the riots which led to attacks on the New York City Police Department, vandalism, and looting in stores. At the end of the conflict, reports counted one dead rioter, 118 injured, and 465 arrested. - Wikipedia
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Incident at 133rd St. and Seventh Ave.
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The fatal shooting of Powell stirred rioters to race through Harlem streets carrying pictures of Lt. Gilligan.
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Carrying a box on his shoulder, a man leaves a store on Columbia Avenue between 15th and 16th streets.
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Photograph shows armed deputy sheriffs attacking a crowd of pickets at the Spang-Chalfant Seamless Tube Company plant, near Pittsburgh.
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Crowd gathered in front of butcher shop during meat riot, New York
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Rioters charging horse-drawn car, later wrecking it on Kensington Ave., Philadelphia
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Anarchist riot, police on horseback driving people, Broadway and 14th streets, New York
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The Homestead Riot, also known as the Homestead Steel Strike, was an industrial lockout and strike which began on June 30, 1892, culminating in a battle between strikers and private security agents on July 6, 1892. The battle was one of the most serious disputes in U.S. labor history, third behind the Ludlow Massacre and the Battle of Blair Mountain. The dispute occurred at the Homestead Steel Works in the Pittsburgh area town of Homestead, Pennsylvania, between the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers (the AA) and the Carnegie Steel Company. The final result was a major defeat for the union and a setback for their efforts to unionize steelworkers.- Wikipedia
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A posse of eight deputy-sheriffs, placed in charge of railroad property by railroad companies, fire into crowd.
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The Anarchist Riot in Chicago - A Dynamite Bomb exploding among the police [McCormick Strike, Haymarket Square]
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The anarchist-labor troubles in Chicago - a police patrol-wagon attacked by a mob of 12,000 rioters, May 3d, 1886.
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Colorado - the anti-Chinese riot in Denver, on October 31st. [Chinese being beaten and property destroyed by large mob]
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The Great strike--the Sixth Maryland Regiment fighting its way through Baltimore / from a photograph by D. Bendann.
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The red flag in New York - riotous Communist workingmen driven from Tompkins Square by the mounted police, Tuesday, January 13th, 1874
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New York City - The Orange Riot of July 12th - view on Eighth Avenue looking from Twenty-Fifth Street and the Grand Opera House - dispersal of the mob by the Ninth, Eighty-Fourth and other regiments.
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Great riot at the Astor Place Opera House, New York: on thursday evening, May 10th, 1849
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