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1975 Chapeltown riot

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The Chapeltown riot occurred on 5 November 1975[1] in the troubled Leeds district of Chapeltown in West Yorkshire, England. They were not to be the last riots in the area with further rioting in 1981 and 1987 and rioting in nearby Harehills in 2001.[2]

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  1. ^ Farrar, Max (30 April 2012). "Rioting or Protesting? Losing It or Finding It?". Parallax. 18 (2): 72–91. doi:10.1080/13534645.2012.672246. S2CID 153706637. Retrieved 21 December 2020.
  2. ^ North, Ian Herbert (7 June 2001). "Leeds riot sparked by arrest of Asian over tax disc". findarticles.com. The Independent. Archived from the original on 6 May 2008.