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List of incidents of civil unrest in the United States

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Listed are major episodes of civil unrest in the United States. This list does not include the numerous incidents of destruction and violence associated with various sporting events.[1]

17th century

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19th century

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1800–1849

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1850–1859

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1860–1869

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1870–1879

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The New York Orange Riot of 1871, between Irish Catholics and Irish Protestants.

1880–1889

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1890–1899

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20th century

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1900–1909

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1910–1919

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1920–1929

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1930–1939

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1940–1949

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1950–1959

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1960–1969

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1968 Washington, D.C., riots

1970—1979

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1980–1989

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The disturbance lasted for an hour with 150 youths participating. A grocery store was looted and set on fire. Four police officers, including one involved in the initial arrest, were injured.[48][49]

1990–1999

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21st century

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2000–2009

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2010–2019

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2020–2024

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  • 2020 – New York City FTP protests, January 31, Anti-Transit Police and MTA protest
  • 2020 – University of Dayton closure riot, March 11, A riot broke out following the university's announcement of a temporary closure due to COVID-19.[52]
Protesters surround a police precinct in Minneapolis during the George Floyd protests, part of a larger wave of civil unrest in 2020 and 2021.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ see Ronald Gottesman, and Richard Maxwell Brown, eds. Violence in America: an encyclopedia (1999).
  2. ^ "The Boston Mob of 1835". www.bpl.org. 2018-08-28. Retrieved 2020-05-29.
  3. ^ a b c d Detroit Free Press' "The Detroit Almanac", 2001
  4. ^ Field, Anthony James (Winter 2021). "The "Irrepressible Conflict:" Policing in Civil War-Era New York City, 1860–1862". The Saber and Scroll Journal. 10 (2): 103–107. doi:10.18278/SSHJ.10.2.8 (inactive 2024-11-01).{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (link)
  5. ^ "The Late Riot at Franklin, Tennessee". The New York Times. 1867-07-10. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-04-06.
  6. ^ "The Campaign Riots in East Tennessee – Two Men Killed and Seven Mortally Wounded". The New York Times. 1867-07-26. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-04-06.
  7. ^ "Eutaw Riot 1870 – Greene County Narratives". Archived from the original on 2021-01-18. Retrieved 2021-02-24.
  8. ^ Welch, Melanie K. (2022-02-07). "Forrest City Riot of 1889". Encyclopedia of Arkansas. Retrieved 2022-04-06.
  9. ^ "Another Georgia Riot". The New York Times. 1889-12-26. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-04-06.
  10. ^ "White soldiers used black child for target practice during grim chapter in Tampa's history". Tampa Bay Times. 2018-06-21. Retrieved 2023-08-08.
  11. ^ "Race Riot in Georgia". The New York Times. 1900-08-18. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-04-06.
  12. ^ "Georgia Troops Sent to Put Down an Uprising of Negroes". Birmingham Age-Herald. 1900-08-18. p.1 col 3. Retrieved 2022-11-01 – via Chronicling America.
  13. ^ "New York City Race Riot, August 1900 – Newspaper and Current Periodical Reading Room (Serial and Government Publications Division, Library of Congress)". www.loc.gov. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-06-20.
  14. ^ Journal, John Gomez/For The Jersey (2017-04-24). "Woman's arrest led to uprising in Jersey City in 1964". nj. Retrieved 2020-05-29.
  15. ^ Taylor, Alan. "1964: Civil Rights Battles – The Atlantic". www.theatlantic.com. Retrieved 2020-05-29.
  16. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o RIOTS, CIVIL AND CRIMINAL DISORDERS: HEARINGS BEFORE THE PERMANENT SUBCOMMITTEE ON INVESTIGATIONS OF THE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS UNITED STATES SENATE (PDF). United States Government Publishing Office. 1968.
  17. ^ Fleeman, Michael (1988-06-10). "Town Outraged, Divided over Cop's Fatal Shooting of Hispanic". AP News. Retrieved 2021-06-12.
  18. ^ "Negroes Riot For 6 Hours". The Capital Journal. 1966-11-01 – via Newspapers.com.
  19. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r "Race Troubles: 109 U.S. Cities Faced Violence in 1967". U.S. News & World Report (published 1967-08-14). 2017-07-12.
  20. ^ Braimah, Ayodale (2017-12-04). "Houston (TSU) Riot (1967)". BlackPast.org. Retrieved 2022-04-06.
  21. ^ a b c Proceedings and Debates of the 90th Congress First Session. Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office. 1967. p. 19335 – via Google Books.
  22. ^ Momodu, Samuel (2020-12-25). "Tampa Bay Race Riot (1967)". Blackpast. Retrieved 2021-03-27.
  23. ^ Antiriot bill, 1967. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1967. p. 301.
  24. ^ Jimenez, Uziel (August 2017). "FRESNO'S LONG HOT SUMMER OF 1967: AN EXAMINATION OF HOUSING AND EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION". California State University ScholarWorks. Retrieved 2021-06-20.
  25. ^ Rasmussen, Chris (2017-07-14). "Recalling the 1967 New Brunswick protests". Courier News. Retrieved 2021-06-19.
  26. ^ "Puerto Ricans Riots: East Harlem in 1967". Center for Puerto Rican Studies at The City University of New York. Retrieved 2021-07-09.
  27. ^ Fernandez, Johanna (2011). "The Young Lords and the Social and Structural Roots of Late Sixties Urban Radicalism". In Taylor, Clarence (ed.). Civil Rights in New York City: From World War II to the Giuliani Era (PDF). Fordham University.
  28. ^ Mack, Will (2018-01-13). "Grand Rapids Uprising (1967)". BlackPast.org. Retrieved 2021-06-22.
  29. ^ O'Leary, Mary; Stannard, Ed; Abdul-Karim, Shahid (2017-08-12). "1967 riots: 4 tense days that began 'evolution' of blacks". New Haven Register. Retrieved 2021-06-12.
  30. ^ Harrison, Scott (2017-06-22). "From the Archives: 1967 antiwar protest turns violent". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  31. ^ Nichols, Steve (2020-06-28). "Valley Voice: Recalling the Century City demonstration of 1967". The Desert Sun. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  32. ^ "THE 1968 TALLAHASSEE RIOTS FOLLOWING THE ASSASSINATION OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR". Apalachee. 11. Tallahassee Historical Society. 1984.
  33. ^ a b c d e Davis, Shanice (2017-04-12). "Are Latino Riots Forgotten Because Latinos Want Them To Be?". VIBE (Digital).
  34. ^ "NEW BATTLING AT CONEY ISLAND". Bridgeport Post. 1968-07-22. Retrieved 2021-06-13 – via Newspapers.com.
  35. ^ "Retrospective: Archives show difficult road for Richmond middle class". Richmond Confidential. 2014-12-10. Retrieved 2021-05-14.
  36. ^ Vasquez, Richard (1970-04-12). "Coachella Riot Bewilders and Stuns Citizens". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2021-06-12 – via Newspapers.com.
  37. ^ "Albuquerque marks 50th anniversary of Mexican American uprising over police violence". 2021-06-17.
  38. ^ Fountain, Aaron G. Jr. (2016-05-04). "Forgotten Latino Urban Riots and Why They Can Happen Again". Latino USA. Retrieved 2021-06-03.
  39. ^ America on Fire. ISBN 978-1-631-49890-9.
  40. ^ Nielsen, Rick (1971-07-19). "Mob Cuts Destructive Swath Through Colonia". Oxnard Press-Courier. Retrieved 2021-06-12 – via Google News Archive.
  41. ^ "SANTA FE'S FIESTA ENDS IN DISORDER". The New York Times. 1971-09-08. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-11-13.
  42. ^ "A Night for Closure". Santa Fe New Mexican. 2007-09-07. Retrieved 2021-11-25.
  43. ^ Cabrera, Kristen (2021-02-12). "50 Years After Pharr Riots, A Look Back At The Rio Grande Valley's History Of Protests Against Police Violence". Texas Standard (Digital). Retrieved 2022-03-14.
  44. ^ "250 Youths Battle Santa Paula Police". Santa Cruz Sentinel. 1972-04-24. Retrieved 2021-06-12 – via Newspapers.com.
  45. ^ "Vietnam-era Antiwar Protests — Mapping American Social Movements". depts.washington.edu. Retrieved 2021-06-11.
  46. ^ a b "New England's Forgotten Puerto Rican Riots". New England Historical Society. 2016-06-13. Retrieved 2021-06-03.
  47. ^ "Violence In Tampa After Death Of Another Black Man In Custody". AP NEWS. 1987-04-07. Retrieved 2021-05-08.
  48. ^ "DRUG ARREST TRIGGERS RIOT IN TAMPA". Deseret News. 1989-02-02. Retrieved 2021-12-18.
  49. ^ Federal Emergency Management Agency & United States Fire Administration (1994). Report of the Joint Fire/Police Task Force on CIVIL UNREST Recommendations for Organization and Operations During Civil Disturbance (PDF). p. 23. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-09-29. Retrieved 2021-12-18.
  50. ^ Hardy, Jeff (1990-12-03). "Youths riot after cop acquittal". UPI. Retrieved 2021-09-03.
  51. ^ "Kentucky Students Riot After NCAA Championship Win". ABC News.
  52. ^ "Ohio: Riot breaks out following university's announcement of temporary closure due to COVID-19". WBRZ.
  53. ^ JTA, TOI staff (2020-10-12). "Brooklyn anti-lockdown protest leader arrested for 'inciting riot'". Times of Israel.
  54. ^ "Man Arrested in Attack on Jewish Men Outside LA Restaurant". 2021-05-22.
  55. ^ Wehner, Greg (2023-10-02). "Philadelphia looting arrests continue to pile up as DA's office and police review evidence". Fox News.

Further reading

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  • Abu-Lughod, Janet L. Race, space, and riots in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles (2007). online
  • Bergesen, Albert, and Max Herman. "Immigration, race, and riot: The 1992 Los Angeles uprising." American Sociological Review (1998): 39-54. online
  • Bernstein, Iver. The New York City Draft Riots: Their Significance for American Society and Politics in the Age of the Civil War (Oxford UP, 1991) online
  • Brophy, Alfred L. and Randall Kennedy. Reconstructing the Dreamland: The Tulsa Riot of 1921: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation (Oxford UP, 2003)
  • Brown, Richard Maxwell. Strain of violence: Historical studies of American violence and vigilantism (Oxford UP, 1975) online; also see online.
  • Bruns, Roger. 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.
  • Feldberg, Michael, The Philadelphia Riots of 1844: A Study of Ethnic Conflict (1975);
    •  Feldberg. "The Philadelphia Riots of 1844: A Social History" (PhD dissertation, U of Rochester; ProQuest Dissertations Publishing,  1970. 7101385).
  • Fine, Sidney. Violence in the Model City: The Cavanagh Administration, Race Relations, and the Detroit Riot Of 1967 (Michigan State University Press,2007)
  • Gilje, Paul A. Rioting in America (Indiana UP, 1996), interpretive history from colonial era to present
  • Gordon, Michael A. The Orange Riots: Irish Political Violence in New York City, 1870 and 1871 (Cornell UP, 2018) see Orange Riots
  • Gottesman, Ronald, and Richard Maxwell Brown, eds. Violence in America: an encyclopedia (3 vol 1999). 1930pp; comprehensive coverage by scholars; vol 2 online
  • Graham, Hugh Davis, ed. Violence in America : historical and comparative perspectives ; a report to the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence (2 vol 1969) vol 1 online also vol 2 online
  • Gurr, Ted Robert, ed. Violence in America: Protest, rebellion, reform (1979).
  • Hofstadter, Richard, and Michael Wallace, eds. American violence: A documentary history (1971). online
  • Hunt, Darnell M. Screening the Los Angeles ’Riots’: Race, Seeing, and Resistance (Cambridge UP, 1996), focus on media coverage
  • Olzak S, Shanahan, and E.H.McEneaney. . "Poverty, segregation and race riots: 1960 to 1993." American Sociological Review (1996) 61(4):590–613 online
  • Rucker, Walter C. and James N. Upton, eds. Encyclopedia of American Race Riots (2 vol. Greenwood, 2006)
  • Schneider, John Charles.  “Mob violence and public order in the American city, 1830-1865” (PhD dissertation,  University of Minnesota; ProQuest Dissertations Publishing,  1971. 7205576).
  • Tager, Jack. Boston Riots: Three Centuries of Social Violence (Northeastern University Press, 2001)
  • Tuttle, William. Race Riot: Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919. (U of Illinois Press, 1970). online
  • Victor, Orville J. History Of American Conspiracies: A Record Of Treason, Insurrection, Rebellion, &c. In The United States Of America. From 1760 To 1860 (1863) online, entertaining but outdated
  • Waskow, Arthur I. From Race Riot to Sit-In, 1919 and the 1960s: A Study in the Connections Between Conflict and Violence. (Doubleday, 1966).