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In the broader context of [[racism in the United States]], '''mass racial violence in the United States''' consists of [[ethnic conflict]]s and [[List of ethnic riots#United States|race riots]], along with such events as:
* Racially based targeted attacks against [[African Americans]] by [[White Americans]] which took place before the [[American Civil War]], often in relation to attempted [[Slave rebellion#North America|slave revolts]], and racially based attacks against African Americans by White Americans which took place after the war, in relation to tensions which existed during the [[Reconstruction era|Reconstruction]] and later efforts to [[Disfranchisement after the Reconstruction era|suppress]] [[Black suffrage]] and institute [[Jim Crow laws]]
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* White American mobs frequently targeted [[Asian American]] immigrants during the 19th and 20th century
* Attacks on [[Tribe (Native American)|American Indians]] and [[American pioneer|American settlers]] which took place during conflicts over land ownership (see also: [[Native American genocide in the United States]], [[American Indian Wars]], [[list of Indian massacres]])
* Frequent fighting among members of various ethnic groups in major cities, specifically in the [[Northeastern United States]] and the [[Midwestern United States]] throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, such as the [[ethnic violence]] between [[Puerto Ricans]] and [[Italian Americans]] in [[New York City]]
* [[Opposition to immigration|Anti-immigrant]] violence, specifically [[Anti-Catholicism in the United States|anti-Catholic]] violence which targeted Catholics in the 19th century
* Anti-immigrant violence, specifically Hispanophobic violence which targeted [[Latin America]]ns during the 20th century
* Two concurrent but distinct patterns of disturbances which occurred during the [[Civil rights movement|civil rights era]]: racial disturbances which occurred during demonstrations and protests, such as the disturbance which occurred at the [[Marquette Park rallies#Chicago Freedom Movement|Marquette Park Illinois march of August 1966]] and the violence which occurred during the [[1969 Greensboro uprising]] in North Carolina, in conjunction with the [[ghetto riots (1964–1969)]], a group of [[riot]]s which includes the [[long, hot summer of 1967]] and the [[King assassination riots]] of 1968, which caused mass violence, looting, and long-lasting damage within African American communities.
== History ==
=== Racial and ethnic cleansing ===
[[Race (human categorization)|Racial]] and [[ethnic cleansing]] was committed on a large scale after the end of the [[American Revolution|American revolution]] during the early period of time in the [[history of the United States]], particularly against [[Tribe (Native American)|American Indians]], who were forced off their lands and relocated to [[Indian reservation|reservations]]. Along with them, [[Chinese Americans]] in the [[Pacific Northwest]] and [[African Americans]] throughout the United States (particularly in the [[Southern United States|American south]]) were rounded up and expunged from towns under threat of mob rule, the [[Lynching in the United States|white mobs frequently intended to harm their African American targets]].<ref name="auto1" />
===Genocide of California's Indigenous peoples===
{{Main|California genocide}}
Following [[California]]'s transition to statehood, the [[Government of California|California state government]], incited,<ref name="burnett">{{Cite web|last=Burnett|first=Peter|author-link=Peter Hardeman Burnett|url=http://governors.library.ca.gov/addresses/s_01-Burnett2.html|title=State of the State Address|date=6 January 1851|publisher=California State Library|quote="That a war of extermination will continue to be waged between the races until the Indian race becomes extinct must be expected. While we cannot anticipate this result but with painful regret, the inevitable destiny of the race is beyond the power or wisdom of man to avert."|access-date=2019-08-30|archive-date=April 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210424200300/https://governors.library.ca.gov/addresses/s_01-Burnett2.html|url-status=live}}</ref> aided and financed miners, settlers, ranchers and people's militias to enslave, kidnap, or murder a major proportion of California's Indigenous people, who were sometimes contemptuously referred to as "Diggers", for their practice of digging up roots to eat.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Coffer|first=William E.|title=Genocide of the California Indians, with a Comparative Study of Other Minorities|journal=The Indian Historian|publisher=San Francisco, CA|volume=10|number=2|date=1977|pages=8–15|pmid=11614644}}</ref><ref>Norton, Jack. ''Genocide in Northwestern California: 'When our worlds cried'.'' Indian Historian Press, 1979.</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Lynwood|first1=Carranco |last2=Beard|first2=Estle |title=Genocide and Vendetta: The Round Valley Wars of Northern California |url=https://archive.org/details/genocidevendetta00carr|url-access=registration|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|year=1981|isbn=9780806115498 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Lindsay |first=Brendan C. |title=Murder State: California's Native American Genocide, 1846–1873|publisher=University of Nebraska Press|year=2012}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Johnston-Dodds|first=Kimberly|url=https://www.library.ca.gov/crb/02/14/02-014.pdf |title=Early California Laws and Policies Related to California Indians |place=Sacramento, CA|publisher=California State Library, California Research Bureau|date=September 2002 |isbn=1-58703-163-9|access-date=September 2, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141012063249/https://www.library.ca.gov/crb/02/14/02-014.pdf |archive-date=October 12, 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | doi=10.1177/0002764213495032|title = Silencing California Indian Genocide in Social Studies Texts| journal=American Behavioral Scientist| volume=58|issue=1| pages=64–82|year = 2014|last1 = Trafzer|first1 = Clifford E.| last2=Lorimer| first2=Michelle|s2cid = 144356070}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Madley|first=Benjamin|url=http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-madley-california-genocide-20160522-snap-story.html|title=Op-Ed: It's time to acknowledge the genocide of California's Indians|work=Los Angeles Times|date=22 May 2016|access-date=2019-08-30|archive-date=May 4, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210504234030/https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-madley-california-genocide-20160522-snap-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref> California governor [[Peter Hardeman Burnett]] predicted in 1851: "That a war of extermination will continue to be waged between the two races until the Indian race becomes extinct, must be expected. While we cannot anticipate the result with but painful regret, the inevitable destiny of the race is beyond the power and wisdom of man to avert."<ref name="burnett" />
California state forces, private militias, Federal reservations, and sections of the US Army all participated in the campaign that caused the deaths of many California Indians with the state and federal governments paying millions of dollars to militias to murder Indians,<ref name="Madspan">{{cite web |url = https://www.c-span.org/video/?414117-1/killing-native-americans-california |title = Killing of Native Americans in California |first = Benjamin |last = Madley |date = August 31, 2016 |publisher = C-SPAN |access-date = August 23, 2018 |archive-date = August 9, 2018 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180809060817/https://www.c-span.org/video/?414117-1/killing-native-americans-california |url-status = live }}</ref><ref name="jerrybrown">{{Cite web|url=https://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/revealing-the-history-of-genocide-against-californias-native-americans|title=Revealing the history of genocide against California's Native Americans|last=Wolf|first=Jessica|date=August 15, 2017|website=UCLA|language=en-US|access-date=2020-04-18|archive-date=January 29, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220129032822/https://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/revealing-the-history-of-genocide-against-californias-native-americans|url-status=live}}</ref> while many starved on Federal Reservations because of their caloric distribution reducing from 480–910 to 160–390<ref name="Madspan" /> and between 1,680 and 3,741 California Indians were killed by the U.S. Army themselves. Between 1850 and 1852 the state appropriated almost one million dollars for the activities of militias, and between 1854 and 1859 the state appropriated another $500,000, almost half of which was reimbursed by the federal government.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.militarymuseum.org/MilitiaandIndians.html|title=Militia and Indians|work=militarymuseum.org|access-date=October 3, 2019|archive-date=December 18, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151218092552/http://www.militarymuseum.org/MilitiaandIndians.html|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Guenter Lewy]], famous for the phrase "In the end, the sad fate of America's Indians represents not a crime but a tragedy, involving an irreconcilable collision of cultures and values" wrote that what happened in California may constitute genocide: "some of the massacres in California, where both the perpetrators and their supporters openly acknowledged a desire to destroy the Indians as an ethnic entity, might indeed be regarded under the terms of the convention as exhibiting [[genocidal intent]]."<ref name="lews">{{cite web |last = Lewis |first = Guenter |title = Were American Indians the Victims of Genocide? |url = https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/7302 |website = History News Network |access-date = October 3, 2019 |archive-date = October 3, 2019 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20191003140712/https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/7302 |url-status = live }}</ref>
By one estimate, at least 4,500 California Indians were killed between 1849 and 1870.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www2.learncalifornia.org/doc.asp?id=1933 |title=Minorities During the Gold Rush |publisher=[[California Secretary of State]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201074206/http://www2.learncalifornia.org/doc.asp?id=1933 |archive-date=February 1, 2014 |df=mdy }}</ref> Contemporary historian Benjamin Madley has documented the numbers of California Indians killed between 1846 and 1873; he estimates that during this period at least 9,400 to 16,000 California Indians were killed by non-Indians. Most of the deaths took place in what he defined as more than 370 [[List of Indian massacres|massacres]] (defined as the "intentional killing of five or more disarmed combatants or largely unarmed noncombatants, including women, children, and prisoners, whether in the context of a battle or otherwise").<ref>{{cite book|last=Madley |first=Benjamin |title=An American Genocide, The United States and the California Catastrophe, 1846–1873 |publisher= Yale University Press|year=2016|isbn=978-0-300-18136-4|pages=11, 351}}</ref> Professor [[Ed Castillo]], of [[Sonoma State University]], estimates that more were killed: "The handiwork of these well armed death squads combined with the widespread random killing of Indians by individual miners resulted in the death of 100,000 Indians in the first two years of the gold rush."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Castillo|first= Edward D. |url=http://nahc.ca.gov/resources/california-indian-history/ | title=California Indian History |publisher=California Native American Heritage Commission|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190601001113/http://nahc.ca.gov/resources/california-indian-history/|archive-date=2019-06-01}}</ref>
Numerous books have been written on the subject of the California Indian genocide, such as ''Genocide and Vendetta: The Round Valley Wars in Northern California'' by Lynwood Carranco and Estle Beard, ''Murder State: California's Native American Genocide, 1846–1873'' by Brendan C. Lindsay, and ''An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846–1873'' by Benjamin Madley among others. Madley's book caused California governor [[Jerry Brown]] to recognize the genocide.<ref name=jerrybrown/> In a speech before representatives of Native American peoples in June, 2019, California governor [[Gavin Newsom]] apologized for the genocide. Newsom said, "That's what it was, a genocide. No other way to describe it. And that's the way it needs to be described in the history books."<ref name="Cowan">{{cite news | last =Cowan | first =Jill | title ='It's Called Genocide': Newsom Apologizes to the State's Native Americans | newspaper =[[The New York Times]] | date =June 19, 2019 | url =https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/19/us/newsom-native-american-apology.html | access-date =June 20, 2019 | archive-date =May 6, 2021 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20210506120106/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/19/us/newsom-native-american-apology.html | url-status =live }}</ref>
===Anti-immigrant violence===
Riots which are defined by "[[Race (human categorization)|race]]" have taken place between [[Race and ethnicity in the United States|ethnic groups in the United States]] since at least the 18th century and they may have also occurred before it. During the early-to-mid- 19th centuries, violent rioting occurred between [[Protestantism|Protestant]] "[[Nativism (politics)|Nativists]]" and recently arrived [[Irish Catholic]] immigrants.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rice, Katz-Hyman |first1=Kym S., B. Martha |title=World of a Slave: Encyclopedia of the Material Life of Slaves in the United States |year=2011 |publisher=Greenwood (December 13, 2010) |isbn=978-0313349423 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iU8GyhJ1veEC&dq=racial+riots+begin+in+America+since+at+least+the+18th+century&pg=PA223}}</ref>
The [[San Francisco Vigilance Movement]]s of 1851 and 1856 have been described as responses to rampant crime and government corruption. But, since the late 19th century, historians have noted that the vigilantes had a nativist bias; they systematically attacked [[Irish Americans|Irish]] immigrants, and later, they attacked [[Mexican Americans|Mexicans]] and [[Chilean Americans|Chileans]] who came as miners during the [[California Gold Rush]], as well as [[Chinese Americans|Chinese]] immigrants.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Coit Gilman, Thurston Peck, Moore Colby |first1=Daniel, Harry, Frank |title=The New International Encyclopaedia; Volume 3 |year=1902 |publisher=Wentworth Press (August 27, 2016) |isbn=978-1371821081 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1GlMAAAAMAAJ&dq=Vigilance+Committee+were+radical+against+chinese+and+mexican+miner&pg=PA771}}</ref> During the early 20th century, whites committed acts of racial or ethnic violence against [[Filipino Americans|Filipinos]], [[Japanese Americans|Japanese]], and [[Armenian Americans|Armenians]], all of whom had arrived in California during waves of immigration.<ref>{{cite book|last=Richardson|first=Peter|title=American Prophet: The Life and Work of Carey McWilliams|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bhYtYnibB4UC&pg=PA88|date=10 October 2005|publisher=University of Michigan Press|isbn=0-472-11524-3|page=88}}<br />{{cite book|last=White|first=Richard|title=It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own: A New History of the American West|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WNizBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA446|date=16 February 2015|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|isbn=978-0-8061-7423-5|page=446}}</ref>
During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, [[Italian Americans|Italian]] immigrants were subjected to racial violence. In 1891, [[March 14, 1891 lynchings|eleven Italians were lynched]] by a mob of thousands in [[New Orleans]].<ref name="Martone2016">{{cite book|last=Martone|first=Eric|title=Italian Americans: The History and Culture of a People|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MHJ1DQAAQBAJ|date=12 December 2016|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-61069-995-2|pages=27–29}}</ref> In the 1890s, a total of twenty Italians were lynched in the [[Southern United States|South]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Baiamonte Jr. |first1=John V. |title=The Spirit of Vengeance: Nativisim and Louisiana Justice |date=March 1999 |publisher=LSU Press; Illustrated edition (March 1, 1999) |isbn=978-0807124536 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jH0MVQlq29oC&dq=In+the+1890s%2C+Italians+were+lynched+in+New+Orleans&pg=PA9}}</ref>
===Reconstruction era (1863–1877)===
{{Main|Reconstruction era|Kirk–Holden war}}
As the [[American Civil War]] ended, antislavery political forces demanded rights for ex-slaves. This led to the passage of the [[Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|14th]] and [[Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|15th]] amendments, which theoretically granted African-American and other minority males equality and voting rights. Although the federal government originally stationed troops in the South in order to protect these new freedoms, this time of progress was cut short.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=http://racialviolenceus.org/RVD_RE_Intro.html|title=Racial Violence – Reconstruction Era – Intro|last=Villeneuve|first=Todd|website=racialviolenceus.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-04-17|archive-date=April 17, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170417155509/http://racialviolenceus.org/RVD_RE_Intro.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>Eric Foner, ''Forever free: The story of emancipation and reconstruction'' (Vintage, 2013).</ref>
By 1877, the North had lost its political will in the South and while slavery was gone, [[Jim Crow laws]] erased most of the freedoms which were guaranteed by the 14th and 15th amendments. Through violent economic tactics and legal technicalities, were [[Disfranchisement after the Reconstruction era|gradually removed from the voting process]].<ref>George C. Rable, ''But there was no peace: The role of violence in the politics of Reconstruction'' (University of Georgia Press, 2007).</ref>
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{{Main|Lynching in the United States}}
[[Image:chicago-race-riot.jpg|thumb|A White gang looking for Black people during the [[Chicago race riot of 1919]]]]
[[Image:Tulsariotpostcard1.jpg|thumb|Buildings burning during the Tulsa race massacre of 1921]]
[[Lynching]] is defined as "a form of violence in which a mob, under the pretext of administering justice without a trial, executes a presumed offender, often after inflicting [[torture]] and [[Corporal punishment|corporal mutilation]] on him or her."<ref>{{Cite web |title=lynching {{!}} Definition, History, & Facts {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/lynching |access-date=2022-04-21 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}</ref> It was a particularly ritualistic form of [[murder]], and it frequently involved the majority of the members of the local White community. Lynchings were sometimes announced in advance and they were frequently turned into [[Lynching in the United States#Spectacle lynching and racist memorabilia|spectacle lynchings]] which audiences could witness. The number of lynchings in the United States dropped from the 1880s to the 1920s, but there were still an average of about 30 lynchings per year during the 1920s. A study of 100 lynchings which was conducted from 1929 to 1940 revealed that at least one third of the victims were innocent of the crimes of which they were accused.<ref name="auto1">{{Cite web|url=http://racialviolenceus.org/RVD_LE_Intro.html|title=Racial Violence - Lynching Era - Intro.html|last=Villeneuve|first=Todd|website=racialviolenceus.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-04-17}}</ref>
Labor and immigrant conflicts were sources of tensions that served as catalysts for the [[East St. Louis riot]] of 1917. White rioters killed an between 39 and 150 Black residents of East St. Louis, after Black residents had killed two White policemen, mistaking the car which they were riding in for another car which was full of White occupants who previously drove through a Black neighborhood and randomly fired their guns into a crowd of Black people. Other White-on-Black race riots included the [[1906 Atlanta race riot|Atlanta riots]] (1906), the [[Omaha riot|Omaha]] and [[Chicago race riot|Chicago riots]] (1919), some of a [[Red Summer|series of riots]] which occurred in the volatile post-[[World War I]] environment, and the [[Tulsa race massacre|Tulsa massacre]] (1921).
The [[Chicago race riot of 1919]] grew out of tensions which existed on the Southside, where [[Irish Americans]] and Black residents were crowded into substandard housing and competed with each other for jobs at the stockyards. The Irish Americans had lived in the city for a longer period of time, and they also organized themselves around athletic and political clubs. Violence broke out across the city in late July. White mobs, many of which were organized around Irish athletic clubs, pulled Black people off trolley cars, attacked Black businesses, and beat victims. City officials closed the street car system, but the rioting continued. A total of 23 Black people and 15 White people were killed.<ref>Dray, 2002.</ref>
The 1921 [[Tulsa race massacre]] took place in [[Greenwood, Tulsa|Greenwood]], which was a prosperous Black neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, home to around 10,000 Black residents and frequently called America's Black Wall Street.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Parshina-Kottas |first1=Yuliya |last2=Singhvi |first2=Anjali |last3=Burch |first3=Audra D. S. |last4=Griggs |first4=Troy |last5=Gröndahl |first5=Mika |last6=Huang |first6=Lingdong |last7=Wallace |first7=Tim |last8=White |first8=Jeremy |last9=Williams |first9=Josh |date=2021-05-24 |title=What the Tulsa Race Massacre Destroyed |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/05/24/us/tulsa-race-massacre.html |access-date=2022-05-03 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> The race riot was precipitated by 19-year-old [[Dick Rowland]], a shoeshine accused of attacking 17-year-old White elevator operator Sarah Page at a department store, being arrested on May 31, 1921.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=1921 Tulsa Race Massacre |url=https://www.tulsahistory.org/exhibit/1921-tulsa-race-massacre/ |access-date=2022-05-03 |website=Tulsa Historical Society & Museum |date=November 2018 |language=en-US |archive-date=August 5, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190805134732/https://www.tulsahistory.org/exhibit/1921-tulsa-race-massacre/ |url-status=live }}</ref> On June 1, a confrontation between Black and White groups outside the courthouse led to a shootout which killed 10 Whites and 2 Blacks. The Black group then retreated back to the Greenwood District.<ref name=":1" /> Subsequently, a White mob attacked Black businesses, homes, and residents in the Greenwood District.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tulsa Race Massacre |url=https://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties/tulsa-race-massacre |access-date=2022-05-09 |website=HISTORY |language=en}}</ref> The attack left over 35 city blocks burned, over 800 people injured, and between 100 and 300 people were killed.<ref name=":1" /> Over 6,000 Black residents were also arrested by the [[Oklahoma]] [[United States National Guard|National Guard]], and taken to several internment centers.<ref name=":1" />
===Civil rights era (1940–1971)===
Though the Roosevelt administration, under tremendous pressure, produced anti-racist propaganda and helped push for African American employment in some cases, African Americans were still experiencing immense violence, particularly in the South. In March 1956, United States Senator [[Sam Ervin]] of North Carolina created the [[Southern Manifesto]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0311-driver-southern-manifesto-anniversary-20160311-story.html|title=Southern Manifesto|website=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=March 11, 2016|access-date=2017-08-26}}</ref> which promised to fight to keep Jim Crow alive by all legal means.<ref name="auto2">{{Cite web|url=http://racialviolenceus.org/RVD_ME_Intro.html|title=Racial Violence - Modern Era - Intro|last=Villeneuve|first=Todd|website=racialviolenceus.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-04-17|archive-date=April 17, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170417155507/http://racialviolenceus.org/RVD_ME_Intro.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
This continuation of support for [[Jim Crow laws|Jim Crow]] and segregation laws led to protests in which many African-Americans were violently injured out in the open at lunchroom counters, buses, polling places and local public areas. These protests did not eviscerate racism, but they prevented racism from being expressed out in the open and forced it to be expressed in more coded or metaphorical linguistic terms.<ref name="auto2"/>
By the 1960s, decades of racial, economic, and political forces, which generated inner city poverty, resulted in race riots within minority areas in cities across the United States. The beating and rumored death of cab driver John Smith by police, sparked the [[1967 Newark riots]]. This event became, per capita, one of the deadliest civil disturbances of the 1960s. The long and short term causes of the Newark riots are explored in depth in the documentary film ''[[Revolution '67]]'' and many news reports of the times. The riots in Newark spread across the United States in most major cities and over 100 deaths were reported. Many inner city neighborhoods in these cities were destroyed. The April 1968 [[assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.]] in [[Memphis, Tennessee]] and the June [[assassination of Robert F. Kennedy]] in [[Los Angeles]] also led to [[1968 riots (disambiguation)|nationwide rioting]] with similar mass deaths. During the same time period, and since then, [[List of attacks against African-American churches|numerous violent acts committed against African-American churches]] have been reported.<ref>Matthew Houdek, "Racial sedimentation and the common sense of racialized violence: The case of black church burnings." ''Quarterly Journal of Speech'' 104.3 (2018): 279-306.</ref>
===Modern era (1972–present)===
Today racial violence has changed dramatically, because openly violent acts of racism are less prevalent, but [[police brutality in the United States|acts of police brutality]] and the [[Incarceration in the United States|mass incarceration]] of racial minorities are continuing to be major issues within the United States. The [[war on drugs]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.drugpolicy.org/facts/new-solutions-drug-policy/brief-history-drug-war-0|title=The War on Drugs|access-date=2017-08-26|archive-date=September 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170911041207/http://www.drugpolicy.org/facts/new-solutions-drug-policy/brief-history-drug-war-0|url-status=dead}}</ref> has been noted as a direct cause of the dramatic increase in the number of incarcerations in the nation's prison system, which has risen from 300,000 in 1980 to more than 2,000,000 in 2000, though it does not account for the disproportionately high African American homicide and crime rates, which peaked before the War on Drugs began.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Reed|first=WL|date=1991|title=Trends in Homicide Among African-Americans|url=https://scholarworks.umb.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1219&context=trotter_review|journal=Scholarworks.umb.edu|via=Scholarworks|archive-date=June 8, 2020|access-date=June 8, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200608220149/https://scholarworks.umb.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1219&context=trotter_review|url-status=live}}</ref>
During the 1980s and '90s a number of riots occurred that were related to longstanding racial tensions between police and minority communities. The [[1980 Miami riots]] were catalyzed by the killing of an African-American motorist by four white [[Miami-Dade Police]] officers. They were subsequently acquitted on charges of manslaughter and evidence tampering. Similarly, the six-day [[1992 Los Angeles riots]] erupted after the acquittal of four white [[Los Angeles Police Department|LAPD]] officers who had been filmed beating [[Rodney King]], an African-American motorist. [[Khalil Gibran Muhammad]], the Director of the Harlem-based [[Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture]] has identified more than 100 instances of mass racial violence in the United States since 1935 and has noted that almost every instance was precipitated by a police incident.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hannah-Jones |first1=Nikole |date=2015-03-04 |title=Yes, Black America Fears the Police. Here's Why. |url=https://www.propublica.org/article/yes-black-america-fears-the-police-heres-why |access-date=2015-03-05 |website=[[ProPublica]] |archive-date=June 30, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170630004146/https://www.propublica.org/article/yes-black-america-fears-the-police-heres-why |url-status=live }}</ref>
The [[Cincinnati riots of 2001]] were caused by the killing of 19-year-old African-American Timothy Thomas by white police officer Stephen Roach, who was subsequently acquitted on charges of negligent homicide.<ref>{{Cite news |date=September 27, 2001 |title=Cincinnati Officer Is Acquitted in Killing That Ignited Unrest |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/27/us/cincinnati-officer-is-acquitted-in-killing-that-ignited-unrest.html |access-date=2016-10-11 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> The [[2014 Ferguson unrest]] occurred against a backdrop of racial tension between police and the Black community of [[Ferguson, Missouri]] in the wake of the police [[shooting of Michael Brown]]; similar incidents elsewhere such as the [[killing of Trayvon Martin]] sparked smaller and isolated protests. According to the [[Associated Press]]' annual poll of United States news directors and editors, the top news story of 2014 was police killings of unarmed Black people, including Brown, as well as the investigations and the protests afterward.<ref name="Times.AP-poll">{{cite news |title=Shootings by Police Voted Top Story of 2014 in AP Poll |newspaper=Times |url=https://time.com/3643962/police-killings-top-story-ap-poll/ |access-date=December 22, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141222162515/http://time.com/3643962/police-killings-top-story-ap-poll/ |archive-date=December 22, 2014}}</ref><ref name="AP.NewsStoriesPoll">{{cite web |title=AP poll: Police killings of blacks voted top story of 2014 |url=http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ad250438af4e4fae95d7e41f537661ef/ap-poll-police-killings-blacks-voted-top-story-2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141222162431/http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ad250438af4e4fae95d7e41f537661ef/ap-poll-police-killings-blacks-voted-top-story-2014 |archive-date=December 22, 2014 |access-date=December 22, 2014 |publisher=Associated Press}}</ref> During the 2017 [[Unite the Right rally]], an attendee [[Charlottesville car attack|drove his car into a crowd of people]] protesting the rally, killing 32-year-old Heather D. Heyer and injuring 19 others, and was indicted on federal hate crime charges.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Heim |first1=Joe |last2=Barrett |first2=Devlin |date=June 27, 2018 |title=Man accused of driving into crowd at 'Unite the Right' rally charged with federal hate crimes |language=en-US |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/man-accused-of-driving-into-crowd-at-unite-the-right-rally-charged-with-federal-hate-crimes/2018/06/27/09cdce3a-7a20-11e8-80be-6d32e182a3bc_story.html |access-date=June 27, 2018 |issn=0190-8286 |archive-date=October 22, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022043551/https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/man-accused-of-driving-into-crowd-at-unite-the-right-rally-charged-with-federal-hate-crimes/2018/06/27/09cdce3a-7a20-11e8-80be-6d32e182a3bc_story.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
In 2020, the police killing of [[Shooting of Breonna Taylor|Breonna Taylor]] and the murders of [[murder of Ahmaud Arbery|Ahmaud Arbery]] and [[Murder of George Floyd|George Floyd]] sparked riots in America [[2020–2021 United States racial unrest|racial unrest]] over [[Institutional racism|systemic racism]] and [[Police brutality in the United States|police brutality]] against African Americans. Riots during the summer resulted in destruction of property, mass looting, [[List of monuments and memorials removed during the George Floyd protests|monument removals]], and incidences of violence by counter-protesters and police across the United States.<ref>{{Cite web |last=McHarris |first=Philip V. |date=2020-06-04 |title=The George Floyd protests are a rebellion against an unjust system {{!}} Philip V McHarris |url=http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/04/george-floyd-protests-riots-rebellion |access-date=2021-01-07 |website=The Guardian |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last1=Booker |first1=Brakkton |last2=Chappell |first2=Bill |last3=Schaper |first3=David |last4=Kurtzleben |first4=Danielle |last5=Shapiro |first5=Joseph |date=June 2020 |title=Violence Erupts As Outrage Over George Floyd's Death Spills Into A New Week |language=en |newspaper=NPR |url=https://www.npr.org/2020/06/01/866472832/violence-escalates-as-protests-over-george-floyd-death-continue |access-date=2021-01-07}}</ref> The [[First presidency of Donald Trump|Trump administration]] condemned violence during the movement and responded by threatening to quell demonstrations, for which it drew criticism. In June, president [[Donald Trump]] threatened to use the [[United States Armed Forces|military]] to disperse protesters by invoking the [[Insurrection Act of 1807]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Macias |first=Christina Wilkie, Amanda |date=2020-06-01 |title=Trump threatens to deploy military as George Floyd protests continue to shake the U.S. |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/01/trump-threatens-to-deploy-military-as-george-floyd-protests-continue-to-shake-the-us.html |access-date=2021-01-07 |website=CNBC |language=en |archive-date=January 28, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210128134109/https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/01/trump-threatens-to-deploy-military-as-george-floyd-protests-continue-to-shake-the-us.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Federal law enforcement agencies were eventually deployed to assist local authorities and protect public property in [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=ABC7 |date=2020-06-01 |title=Customs and Border Patrol officers deployed to help D.C. police amid unrest in city |url=https://wjla.com/news/local/customs-and-border-patrol-deployed-to-dc-to-help-police-amid-unrest-in-city |access-date=2021-01-07 |website=WJLA |archive-date=November 8, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211108175020/https://wjla.com/news/local/customs-and-border-patrol-deployed-to-dc-to-help-police-amid-unrest-in-city |url-status=live }}</ref>
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===Nativist period (1700s–1860)===
{{For|information about riots worldwide|List of riots}}
{{For|information about race riots worldwide|List of ethnic riots}}
* 1811: [[1811 German Coast uprising|German Coast uprising]] ([[Louisiana]])
* 1814: Anti-Hispanic race riot with sailors, ([[Boston]])<ref name=Boston>{{Cite journal|last=Tager|first=Jack|date=2000|title=Boston Riots: Three Centuries of Social Violence|doi=10.2307/3185445 |jstor=3185445 |s2cid=145326688 }}</ref>
* 1823: Nativist launch raid on Irish neighborhood, ([[Boston]])<ref name=Boston />
* 1824: [[Hard Scrabble and Snow Town]] Riots, 1824 & 1831 respectively, [[Providence, Rhode Island]]
* 1826: Multiple forays on Irish neighborhoods, ([[Boston]])<ref name=Boston />
* 1828: Riot between English/Irish Protestants against Irish Catholics in South Boston, ([[Boston]])<ref name=Boston />
* 1829: [[Cincinnati riots of 1829]] ([[Cincinnati]]). Rioting against African Americans results in thousands leaving for [[Canada]].
* 1829: [[Boston anti-Catholic riots]] ([[Boston]]) Attacked homes of Irish Catholics, stoning them for three days.<ref>{{Cite journal|url = https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/360143.pdf|jstor = 360143|title = The Burning of the Charlestown Convent|last1 = Billington|first1 = Ray Allen|journal = The New England Quarterly|year = 1937|volume = 10|issue = 1|pages = 4–24|doi = 10.2307/360143|archive-date = March 25, 2020|access-date = June 20, 2021|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200325175919/https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/360143.pdf|url-status = live}}</ref>
* 1831: [[Nat Turner's slave rebellion]] ([[Southampton County, Virginia]])
* 1831: Nativist attack Irish church, ([[Boston]])<ref name=Boston />
* 1832: Nativist attack Irish on Merrimack street, ([[Boston]])<ref name=Boston />
* 1832: December 31, rioters clash with the watch protecting Irish homes, ([[Boston]])<ref name=Boston />
* 1833: November 29, Nativist riot in Charlestown, ([[Charlestown, Massachusetts]])<ref name=Boston />
* 1833: December 7–8, Nativist riots in Charlestown, ([[Charlestown, Massachusetts]])<ref name=Boston />
* 1834: [[Ursuline Convent riots]] ([[Charlestown, Massachusetts]], near Boston)
* 1834: [[New York anti-abolitionist riots (1834)]]<ref>Carl E. Prince 'The Great" Riot Year': Jacksonian Democracy and Patterns of Violence in 1834." ''Journal of the Early Republic'' 5.1 (1985): 1-19.</ref>
* 1834: Attack on [[Canterbury Female Boarding School]], [[Canterbury, Connecticut]]
* 1834: Bangor anti-Catholic riot, [[Bangor, Maine]]
* 1835: [[Gentleman's Riot]], numerous riots throughout 1835 targeting abolitionists,<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Boston Mob of 1835|url=https://www.bpl.org/blogs/post/the-boston-mob-of-1835/|website=www.bpl.org|language=en-US|access-date=May 29, 2020|archive-date=February 4, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210204045540/https://www.bpl.org/blogs/post/the-boston-mob-of-1835/|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Boston, Massachusetts]]
* 1835: [[Snow Riot]] ([[Washington, D.C.]])
* 1835: [[Five Points Riot]] ([[New York City]])
* 1835: Destruction of [[Noyes Academy]], [[Canaan, New Hampshire]]
* 1836: [[Cincinnati riots of 1836]] ([[Cincinnati]])
* 1837: [[Broad Street Riot]] ([[Boston]])
* 1837: [[Montgomery Guards|Montgomery Guards riot]] ([[Boston]])
* 1837: Murder of [[Elijah Lovejoy]]
* 1838: [[Pennsylvania Hall (Philadelphia)|Burning of Pennsylvania Hall]]
* 1841: [[Cincinnati riots of 1841]] ([[Cincinnati]])
* 1842: [[Lombard Street Riot]], (a.k.a. the Abolition Riots), August 1, [[Philadelphia]]
* 1842: [[Muncy Abolition riot of 1842]]
* 1844: [[Philadelphia Nativist Riots]] (May 6–8 and July 5–8), [[Philadelphia]]
* 1844: [[Know-Nothing Riot|Brooklyn riot]], occurred on April 4 between [[Nativism (politics)|nativists]] and Irish immigrants.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mcnamarasblog/2009/03/the-real-gangs-of-new-york.html|title=Serious Disturbance Last Night—Outrageous Conduct of the Native Americans—The Military Called out|newspaper=Brooklyn Eagle|publication-date=April 5, 1844|archive-date=May 7, 2021|access-date=May 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210507060511/https://www.patheos.com/blogs/mcnamarasblog/2009/03/the-real-gangs-of-new-york.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
* 1846: Nativist riot, ([[Boston, Massachusetts]])<ref name=Boston />
* 1849: [[Astor Place riot]], between immigrants and [[nativists]]
* 1851: [[Hoboken anti-German riot]]
* 1853: [[Cincinnati riot of 1853]] ([[Cincinnati]], anti-Catholic riot by German Protestants and Liberals)
* 1854: [[Bath, Maine, anti-Catholic riot of 1854]] ([[Bath, Maine]])
* 1854: [[History of St. Louis|St. Louis Nativist riots]] ([[St. Louis]], anti-Irish Catholic riot)
* 1854: May 26, Failed rescue of fugitive slave Anthony Burns with the riot led by abolitionists, ([[Boston]])<ref name=Boston />
* 1854: May 7, "Angel Gabriel" Orr nativist riot, ([[Boston]])<ref name=Boston />
* 1854: June, Orr's followers brawl with Irish, ([[Boston]])<ref name=Boston />
* 1855: Rogue River Massacre; Chinese migrants killed by Native American tribes in connection with the [[Rogue River Wars]] in [[Rogue River, Oregon]]
* 1855: Bangor know-nothing/nativist riot; Irish and their taverns were targets of attacks from know nothing party in a combination of anti immigrant and pro temperance attitudes, [[Bangor, Maine]]
* 1855: [[Bloody Monday]] ([[Louisville, Kentucky]], anti-German and Irish riots)
* 1855: [[Lager Beer Riot]] ([[Chicago]], caused by raising taxes on alcohol for Irish and German immigrants)
* 1855: [[Cincinnati Riots of 1855|Cincinnati Nativist riots]] ([[Cincinnati]], anti-German riots)
* 1856: [[Battle of Seattle (1856)]], Jan 26, Attack by Native American tribesmen upon [[Seattle]]
* 1856: [[Baltimore Know-Nothing riots of 1856]], anti-Irish Catholic riots
* 1856: [[San Francisco Committee of Vigilance#1856|San Francisco Vigilance Movement]], [[San Francisco]] (Nativist overtones)
* 1857: [[Know-Nothing Riot|DC Nativist riot]] ([[Washington, D.C.]])
* 1857: [[Dead Rabbits riot]] ([[New York City]], anti-Irish Catholic riots)
* 1858: [[Know-Nothing Riot|New Orleans Nativist riot]] ([[New Orleans]], anti-Irish Catholic riots)
===Civil War period (1861–1865)===
* 1862: [[Buffalo riot of 1862]] ([[Buffalo, New York]]), August 12, riots by German and Irish longshoreman over lack of pay from dock bosses.
* 1863: [[Bear River Massacre]] (near [[Preston, Idaho]]), January 29, following several years of violent clashes, U.S. Army attacked a [[Shoshone]] encampment, killing over two hundred indigenous Americans.
* 1863: [[Detroit race riot of 1863|Detroit race riot]] ([[Detroit]]), March 6, protests by working class over military draft for Civil War.
* 1863: [[New York City draft riots]], July 13–16, also known as "Manhattan draft riots" or "Draft Week", violence broke out among the working-class in [[Lower Manhattan]] after new draft laws were passed by Congress for the [[American Civil War|Civil War]]. White protesters eventually turned their attacks towards Black people.
* 1864: [[Sand Creek massacre]], November 29, also known as "the Chivington massacre", "the battle of Sand Creek", or "the massacre of Cheyenne Indians", the Third Colorado Cavalry of the U.S. Army attacked and destroyed a camp of Cheyenne and Arapaho people seeking Army protection in southeastern [[Colorado Territory]], killing and mutilating as many as 600 Native American people, about two-thirds of whom were women and children.
===Post–Civil War and Reconstruction period (1865–1877)===
* 1866: [[New Orleans massacre of 1866]] ([[New Orleans]]), July 30
* 1866: Owyhee River Massacre; a group of traveling Chinese miners were attacked by a [[Paiute]] war party, in which 49 Chinese miners were killed, [[Arock, Oregon]]
* 1866: [[Memphis riots of 1866]] (Memphis, Tennessee), May 1–3, mostly ethnic Irish against African Americans
* 1868: [[Pulaski riot]] ([[Pulaski, Tennessee]]), January 7
* 1868: [[St. Bernard Parish massacre]] ([[St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana]]), October 25<ref>{{Cite web |title=Oct. 25, 1868: St. Bernard Parish Massacre |url=https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/st-bernard-parish-massacre/ |access-date=2022-04-23 |website=Zinn Education Project |language=en-US |archive-date=May 6, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220506171355/https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/st-bernard-parish-massacre |url-status=live }}</ref>
* 1868: [[Opelousas massacre]] ([[Opelousas, Louisiana]]), September 28
* 1868: [[Camilla race riot]] ([[Camilla, Georgia]]), September 19
* 1868: [[Ward Island riot|Wards Island riot]], March 5, Irish and German-American indigent immigrants, temporarily interned at [[Randalls and Wards Islands|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.<ref>"Riot On Ward's Island.; Terrific Battle Between German and Irish Emigrants", ''New York Times'', 06 March 1868</ref>
* 1870: [[Marias massacre]] ([[Marias River|Marias River, Montana Territory]]), January 23, U.S. Army killed over 200 [[Piegan Blackfeet]], mostly elderly, women and children.
* 1870: [[Eutaw massacre]] ([[Eutaw, Alabama]]), October 25
* 1870: [[Mamaroneck riot]] ([[Mamaroneck, New York]]), August 13
* 1870: [[Laurens, South Carolina]], October 20<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=dgJHAQAAIAAJ&pg=GBS.RA7-PA119&hl=en |title=United States Congressional Serial Set |year=1902 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |language=en |archive-date=April 23, 2022 |access-date=April 23, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220423151536/https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=dgJHAQAAIAAJ&pg=GBS.RA7-PA119&hl=en |url-status=live }}</ref>
* 1870: [[Kirk-Holden war]]: ([[Alamance County, North Carolina]]), July - November, Federal troops, led by Col. Kirk and requested by [[William Woods Holden|NC governor Holden]], were sent to extinguish racial violence. Holden was eventually impeached because of the offensive.
* 1870: [[Orange riots|New York City orange riot]], July 12
* 1871: [[Meridian race riot of 1871|Meridian race riot]], ([[Meridian, Mississippi]]), March
* 1871: [[Orange riots|Second New York City orange riot]], July 12
* 1871: [[Chinese massacre of 1871|Los Angeles anti-Chinese riot]] ([[Los Angeles]]), October 24, mixed Mexican and white mob killed 17–20 Chinese in the largest mass lynching in U.S. history
* 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.<ref>"The Coal Riot. Horrible Treatment of the Laborers by the Miners. – Condition of the Wounded – A War of Races – Welsh vs. Irish and Germans," ''New York Times'', 11 May 1871</ref>
* 1872: [[Patenburg Massacre|Pattenburg Massacre]], on the Muthockaway Creek, Hunterdon County, New Jersey. Black laborers working on the farm of a Mrs Carter are attacked while returning to their shanties after work by Irish laborers who had been working on a nearby tunnel. Three Black men Denis Powel, Oscar Bruce and another older Black man were shot and beaten beyond recognition. Three other Black men from the massacre were arrested, while their assailants remained at large.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Patenburg Massacre |url=https://blackhistory.harpweek.com/7illustrations/Reconstruction/PatenburgMassacre.htm |access-date=2022-05-11 |website=Black History. HarpWeek |archive-date=May 11, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220511231059/https://blackhistory.harpweek.com/7illustrations/Reconstruction/PatenburgMassacre.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>
* 1873: [[Colfax massacre]] ([[Colfax, Louisiana]]), April 13
* 1874: [[Vicksburg massacre]] ([[Vicksburg, Mississippi]]), December 7, attack on Black citizens, death toll estimates range from 75 to 300 people.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dec. 7, 1874: Vicksburg Massacre |url=https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/vicksburg-massacre/ |access-date=2022-04-23 |website=Zinn Education Project |language=en-US}}</ref>
* 1874: [[Election Massacre of 1874]] ([[Eufaula, Alabama]]), November 3
* 1874: [[Battle of Liberty Place]] ([[New Orleans]]), September 14,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.afrigeneas.com/forum-reconstruction/index.cgi?page=1;md=read;id=1552|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225140010/https://www.afrigeneas.com/forum-reconstruction/index.cgi?page=1;md=read;id=1552|url-status=usurped|archive-date=February 25, 2021|title=New Orleans Police casualites [sic : ''casualties''] 1874 "Liberty Place"|website=Afrigeneas.com|access-date=17 September 2017}}</ref> after contested gubernatorial election, Democrats took over state buildings for three days.
* 1874: [[Coushatta massacre]] ([[Coushatta, Louisiana]]), August
* 1875: [[Clinton Riot]] (Massacre) ([[Clinton, Mississippi]]), September<ref>{{cite web|url=https://mississippiencyclopedia.org/entries/clinton-riot-massacre-of-1875|title=Clinton Riot (Massacre) of 1875|website=Mississippi Encyclopedia|access-date=9 April 2022|archive-date=May 17, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220517004945/https://mississippiencyclopedia.org/entries/clinton-riot-massacre-of-1875/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* 1876: [[South Carolina civil disturbances of 1876|Statewide violence in South Carolina]] ([[Hamburg, South Carolina|Hamburg]], [[Charleston, South Carolina|Charleston]], [[Ellenton, South Carolina|Ellenton]], Cainhoy, [[Edgefield, South Carolina|Edgefield]], [[Mount Pleasant, South Carolina|Mt. Pleasant]], and [[Beaufort, South Carolina|Beaufort]], South Carolina), July - November
* 1876: [[Hamburg massacre]], ([[Hamburg, South Carolina]]), July
* 1876: [[Ellenton riot]], ([[Ellenton, South Carolina]]), September
* 1877: [[San Francisco riot of 1877]] ([[San Francisco]]), July 23–25, a three-day pogrom waged against Chinese immigrants.
===Jim Crow period (1877–1914)===
{{further|Nadir of American race relations}}
* 1877: Group of white men burn down Chinese workers bunkhouse, robs and murders them, ([[Chico, California]])
* 1878: Reno Chinatown burnt to the ground, [[Reno, Nevada]]
* 1880: Denver riot; a mob of Democratic voters rioted against Chinese residents in which one was killed, [[Denver]]
* 1881: Mass lynching of three Mexicans charged with murder, ([[Los Lunas, New Mexico|Los Lunas, Valencia County, New Mexico]])<ref>{{cite news|url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82014381/1881-10-10/ed-1/seq-4/|title=Three Mexicans Lynched|newspaper=[[The Sacramento Union]]|issn=2151-3899|oclc=8800957|access-date=December 6, 2022|archive-date=December 6, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221206200904/https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82014381/1881-10-10/ed-1/seq-4/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* 1882: Mass killing of Chinese miners by white miners who were trying to rob them, in which 4 were killed, [[Hamer, Idaho]]
* 1885: [[Rock Springs massacre]] ([[Rock Springs, Wyoming]]), September 2, massacre of immigrant Chinese miners by white immigrant miners
* 1885: Mass lynching of five Chinese miners, [[Pierce, Idaho]]
* 1885: Eureka Chinese expulsion, [[Eureka, California]]
* 1885: Attack on Squak Valley Chinese laborers, [[Issaquah, Washington]]
* 1885: Coal creek anti-Chinese riot, [[Newcastle, Washington]]
* 1885: [[Tacoma riot of 1885|Tacoma riot]] ([[Tacoma, Washington]]), November 3, forceful expulsion of the Chinese population
* 1885: Chinatown and 25 other buildings totaling 35,000 dollars got burned down causing Chinese to be forced out, ([[Tulare, California]])
* 1885: Chinatown burnt to the ground, ([[Pasadena, California]])
* 1885: Mob attempts to burn Chinatown down, ([[Modesto, California]])
* 1885: Black Diamond anti-Chinese purge, [[Black Diamond, Washington]]
* 1886: [[Seattle riot of 1886|Seattle riot]] ([[Seattle]]), February 6–9
* 1886: Anti-Chinese riot, [[Olympia, Washington]]
* 1886: Mob burns houses of Chinese and expels them, ([[Marysville, California]])
* 1886: Forced expulsion of Chinese ranchers, ([[Nicolaus, California]])
* 1886: Redding Chinese expulsion, [[Redding, California]]
* 1886: Red Bluff Chinese expulsion, [[Red Bluff, California]]
* 1886: [[Pittsburgh riot]] ([[Pittsburgh]]), September 19
* 1886: Albina and East Portland anti-Chinese purge, [[Portland, Oregon]]
* 1886: Oregon City anti-Chinese expulsion, [[Oregon City, Oregon]]
* 1886: Two are killed in forced expulsion of Chinese miners out to sea, ([[Juneau, Alaska]])
* 1887: [[Denver riot of 1887|Denver riot]] ([[Denver]]), April 10, fighting between [[Swedish Americans|Swedish]], [[Hungarian Americans|Hungarian]], and [[Polish Americans|Polish]] immigrants resulted in the shooting death of one man and several others were injured before it was broken up by police.<ref>''A Race Riot In Denver.; One Man Killed And A Number Of Heads Broken''. <u> New York Times. </u> 12 Apr 1887</ref>
* 1887: Chinatown burnt to the ground, ([[Dutch Flat, California]])
* 1887: [[Hells Canyon Massacre]] (or Snake River Massacre) ([[Chinese Massacre Cove|Chinese Massacre Cove, Wallowa County, Oregon]]), May 27–28, massacre of thirty-four Chinese goldminers.
* 1887: [[Thibodaux massacre]] ([[Thibodaux, Louisiana]]), November 23, strike of 10,000 sugar-cane workers was opposed by local white paramilitary forces, who rioted and killed an estimated 50 African Americans.
* 1887: Chinatown burnt down, ([[San Jose, California]])
* 1889: [[1889 Forrest City riot]], May 18, [[Forrest City, Arkansas]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Welch |first=Melanie K. |date=February 7, 2022 |title=Forrest City Riot of 1889 |url=https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/forrest-city-riot-of-1889-6495/ |access-date=April 6, 2022 |website=[[Encyclopedia of Arkansas]] |archive-date=October 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221020005616/https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/forrest-city-riot-of-1889-6495/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* 1889: [[1889 Jesup riot|Jesup riot]], December 25, [[Jesup, Georgia]]<ref>{{Cite news |date=December 26, 1889 |title=Another Georgia Riot |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1889/12/26/archives/another-georgia-riot.html |access-date=April 6, 2022 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
* 1890: [[Wounded Knee Massacre]] ([[Wounded Knee Creek|Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota]]), December 29, U.S.Army killed nearly 300 disarmed indigenous [[Lakota people|Lakota]].
* 1891: [[1891 New Orleans lynchings|New Orleans lynchings]] ([[New Orleans]]) March 14, a lynch mob stormed a local jail and hanged 11 Italians following the acquittal of several Sicilian immigrants alleged to be involved in the murder of New Orleans police chief [[David Hennessy]].
* 1891: [[Joe Coe|Lynching of Joe Coe]] ([[Omaha, Nebraska]]), October 10, a mob lynched [[Joe Coe]], a Black worker who was suspected of attacking a young white woman from South Omaha. Approximately 10,000 white people, mostly ethnic immigrants from [[South Omaha]], reportedly swarmed the [[Douglas County Courthouse (Omaha)|courthouse]], setting it on fire. They took Coe from his jail cell, beat him, and then lynched him. Reportedly, 6,000 people viewed Coe's corpse during a public exhibition, at which pieces of the lynching rope were sold as souvenirs.<ref>Bristow, D.L. (2002) ''A Dirty, Wicked Town.'' Caxton Press. p 253.</ref>
* 1893: Napa Valley riot; white laborer's union formed and forcibly remove Chinese workers from working in plum orchards, ([[Napa, California]])
* 1893: Fresno riot; white mob attacked Chinese grape pickers and left one worker in critical condition, ([[Fresno, California]])
* 1893: Redlands riot; ordered Chinese to leave by nighttime, later white mob formed and burned and looted Chinatown, ([[Redlands, California]])
* 1894: [[Buffalo, New York riot of 1894]] ([[Buffalo, New York]]), March 18, two groups of Irish and Italian-Americans were arrested by police after fighting following a barroom brawl. After the mob was dispersed by police, five Italians were arrested while two others were sent to a local hospital.<ref>''Race Riot In Buffalo.; Italians and Irish Fight for an Hour and a Half in the Street''. <u>New York Times. </u> 19 Mar. 1894</ref>
* 1894: [[Bituminous coal miners' strike of 1894|Bituminous coal miners' strike]] ([[Colorado]], [[Illinois]], [[Ohio]], [[Pennsylvania]], and [[West Virginia]]), April–June, Much of the violence in this national strike was not specifically racial. In [[Iowa]], where 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 Consolidation's employees were African American. The National Guard was mobilized to avert open warfare.<ref>Thomas J. Hudson, Iowa Chapter VIII, Events from Jackson to Cummins, [https://archive.org/details/provinceandstat00goodgoog/page/n172 <!-- pg=170 --> The Province and the States, Vol. V], the Western Historical Association, 1904; page 170</ref><ref>"The National Guard – Iowa's Splendid Militia," [https://books.google.com/books?id=GG1JAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA419 ''The Midland Monthly,'' Vol. II, No. 5] Nov. 1894; page 419.</ref><ref>''Service at Muchakinock and Evans, in Mahaska County, During the Coal Miners' Strike,'' [https://books.google.com/books?id=xDbOAkGni7IC&pg=RA4-PA18 Report of the Adjutant-General to the Governor of the State of Iowa for Biennial Period Ending Nov. 30, 1895], Conway, [[Des Moines, Iowa]], 1895; page 18</ref>
* 1895: [[1895 New Orleans dockworkers riot]] ([[New Orleans]]), March 11–12
* 1895: [[Spring Valley Race Riot of 1895]]
* 1895: July 4, riot of Orangemen vs Irish Catholics, ([[Boston]])<ref name=Boston />
* 1896: [[Newmarket Textile Mill riots of 1896]], Americans vs. French immigrant workers; July 18-October 21, 1896; 10% of the buildings in Newmarket, New Hampshire have been burnt down.
* 1896: [[Linton, Indiana]] 300 black strikebreakers were expelled from the coal mining town of Linton after one of the strikebreakers shot a white boy. Eventually blacks were banned from living in all of [[Greene County, Indiana|Greene County]].<ref>{{cite news|title=One Place on Earth too Hot for a Negro|work=[[Richmond Register|The Richmond Climax]]|___location=Richmond, Kentucky|date=August 5, 1903|page=2|url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86069162/1903-08-05/ed-1/seq-2/|via=Chronicling America|archive-date=November 2, 2023|access-date=January 13, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231102181700/https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86069162/1903-08-05/ed-1/seq-2/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* 1896: Mass lynching of Italians, ([[Hahnville, Louisiana]])
* 1897: [[Lattimer massacre]], September 1897, near [[Hazleton, Pennsylvania]]
* 1898: [[Lynching of Frazier B. Baker and Julia Baker]] ([[Lake City, South Carolina]]), February 22
* 1898: [[Phoenix election riot]] (near [[Greenwood County, South Carolina]]), November 8
* 1898: [[Wilmington race riot|Wilmington insurrection]] ([[Wilmington, North Carolina]]), November 10, a group of Democrats sought to remove African Americans from the political scene, and went about this by launching a campaign of accusing African American men of sexually assaulting white women. About five hundred white men attacked and burned Alex Manly's office, a newspaper editor who suggested African American men and white women had consensual relationships. Fourteen African Americans were killed.<ref name="auto3">{{Cite web |title=Race Riots in the U.S. |url=https://www.infoplease.com/us/history/major-race-riots-us |access-date=2017-04-17 |website=www.infoplease.com |language=en |archive-date=April 17, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170417155003/https://www.infoplease.com/us/history/major-race-riots-us |url-status=live }}</ref>
* 1899: [[Pana riot]], April 10, Coal mine labor conflict; 7 killed, 6 wounded, [[Pana, Illinois]]
* 1899: [[Newburg, New York riot|Newburg, New York race riot]] ([[Newburgh, New York|Newburg, New York]]), July 28, angered about hiring of African American workers, a group of 80-100 Arab laborers attack African Americans near the Freeman & Hammond brick yard, with numerous men injured on both sides.<ref>"Race Riots In Newburg.; Negroes Employed in Brick Yards Provoke Other Laborers -- Lively Battle Between the Factions," ''New York Times''. 29 Jul. 1899</ref>
* 1899: Mass lynching of Italians, ([[Tallulah, Louisiana]])
* 1899: [[Carterville, Illinois]] A violent shootout occurred between striking white miners and non-union black miners who were brought into Carterville as strikebreakers. Five black miners are killed. All the surviving black miners left Carterville shortly after the riot.<ref>{{cite news |title=Bloodshed at Carterville |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/18911978/1899_bloodshed_at_carterville_3/ |access-date=April 6, 2019 |publisher=Carbondale Free Press |date=September 23, 1899}}</ref>
* 1900: [[New York City Race Riot of 1900|New York City race riot]], occurred August 15 through 17th after the death of a white undercover police officer, Robert J. Thorpe caused by Arthur Harris, a black man.<ref>{{cite web |title=New York City Race Riot, August 1900 - Newspaper and Current Periodical Reading Room (Serial and Government Publications Division, Library of Congress) |url=https://www.loc.gov/rr/news/topics/nyriot.html |website=www.loc.gov |publisher=Library of Congress |accessdate=20 June 2020 |archive-date=June 28, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200628114830/https://www.loc.gov/rr/news/topics/nyriot.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
* 1900: [[Robert Charles riots]] ([[New Orleans|New Orleans, Louisiana]]), July 24–27
* 1900: [[Tenderloin, Manhattan#Race riot|Tenderloin race riot]] ([[Manhattan|Manhattan, New York]]) August
* 1900: [[Burt Lake burn-out]] (near [[Cheboygan, Michigan]]), October 15, police and a mob of white men burned down a Native American town, at the behest of a private developer claiming ownership of the area.
* 1901: [[Pierce City, Missouri]] 300 black residents were expelled after white residents lynched three black men for allegedly killing a white woman.
* 1902: [[Jacob Joseph#Death|Rabbi Joseph funeral riot]] ([[New York City]]), July 30, [[Antisemitic]] riots initiated by German factory workers and city policemen against thousands of Jews attending [[Jacob Joseph]]'s funeral.
* 1902: [[Decatur, Indiana]] A mob of 50 men forced black residents out of Decatur.<ref>{{cite web |title=NEGROES DRIVEN AWAY.; The Last One Leaves Decatur, Ind., Owing to Threats Made. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1902/07/14/archives/negroes-driven-away-the-last-one-leaves-decatur-ind-owing-to.html |website=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=March 29, 2019}}</ref>
* 1903: [[Evansville race riot]], [[Evansville, Indiana]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Clark |first=Justin |date=2017-07-06 |title="The City’s Crown of Shame": The Evansville Race Riot |url=https://blog.newspapers.library.in.gov/evansville-race-riots/ |access-date=2025-01-23 |website=Hoosier State Chronicles: Indiana's Digital Newspaper Program |language=en-US |archive-date=June 12, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240612015724/https://blog.newspapers.library.in.gov/evansville-race-riots/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* 1903: [[Joplin, Missouri]] White residents drove out Joplin's black residents following the lynching of a black transient for the murder of a white policeman.<ref>{{cite web |title=LYNCHING OF A COLORED MAN IN JOPLIN, MISSOURI |url=https://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=LAL19030417-01.2.29&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN--------0- |website=coloradohistoricnewspapers.org |publisher=Las Animas Leader |date=April 16, 1903 |access-date=April 15, 2019 |archive-date=April 1, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190401070056/https://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=LAL19030417-01.2.29&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN--------0- |url-status=live }}</ref>
* 1904: Springfield, OH – Springfield race riot of 1904<ref name=":02">{{Cite web|last=Carter|first=Darnell|date=1993|title=The 1904, 1906, and 1921 Race Riots in Springfield, Ohio and the Hoodlum Theory|url=https://etd.ohiolink.edu/rws_etd/document/get/osu1375275114/inline|access-date=23 April 2016|website=Etd.ohiolink.edu|archive-date=May 8, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160508054232/https://etd.ohiolink.edu/rws_etd/document/get/osu1375275114/inline|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* 1905: [[Harrison, Arkansas]] Resulted in the expulsion of Harrison's black residents.<ref name="encyclopediaofarkansas_net">{{cite web |title=Harrison Race Riots of 1905 and 1909 |url=http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=3712 |website=encyclopediaofarkansas.net |publisher=Encyclopedia of Arkansas |access-date=March 29, 2019 |archive-date=August 30, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110830133758/http://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=3712 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* 1906: Springfield, OH – Springfield race riot of 1906<ref name=":02" />
* 1906: [[Brownsville affair]] (Brownsville raid) ([[Brownsville, Texas]]), August 12–13
* 1906: [[Atlanta massacre of 1906]] ([[Atlanta]]), September 22–24, after two newspapers printed stories about African American men allegedly assaulting white women anti-African American, violence broke out. Roughly 10,000 white men and boys took the street, resulting in the deaths of 25 to 100 African Americans, along with hundreds injured and many businesses destroyed.<ref name="auto3" />
* 1906: [[Argenta race riot]] ([[Little Rock, Arkansas]]), October 6–9, began when a white police officer in Argenta (North Little Rock) killed a Black musician, and another Black person was killed; racial tensions rose with exchange of gunfire, resulting in half a block of buildings burned down; whites rioted and some Black people fled the city.<ref>[http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?search=1&entryID=2415 "Argenta Race Riot"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120128020152/http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?search=1&entryID=2415 |date=January 28, 2012 }}, ''Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture'' (accessed April 28, 2011).</ref>
* 1906: ([[Wahalak, Mississippi|Wahalak]] and [[Scooba, Mississippi]]), December<ref>{{cite news|title=Whites in Race War Kill Blacks Blindly|url=https://partners.nytimes.com/library/national/race/122606race-ra.html|work=New York Times|date=26 December 1906|archive-date=December 2, 2015|access-date=October 3, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151202050652/http://partners.nytimes.com/library/national/race/122606race-ra.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
* 1907: ([[Yazoo City, Mississippi]]), June 8<ref>{{Cite news |date=1907-06-09 |title=NEGROES KILLED IN RIOT.; Three Shot to Death Near Yazoo City -- Four Whites Wounded. |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1907/06/09/archives/negroes-killed-in-riot-three-shot-to-death-near-yazoo-city-four.html |access-date=2022-04-23 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=April 23, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220423155559/https://www.nytimes.com/1907/06/09/archives/negroes-killed-in-riot-three-shot-to-death-near-yazoo-city-four.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=San Francisco Call 10 June 1907 — California Digital Newspaper Collection |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19070610.2.37&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |access-date=2022-04-23 |website=cdnc.ucr.edu |archive-date=June 4, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230604050557/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19070610.2.37&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* 1907: [[Bellingham riots]] ([[Bellingham, Washington]]), September 4
* 1907: [[Pacific Coast race riots of 1907|Anti-Japanese San Francisco race riot]], [[San Francisco]], May 20
* 1908: [[Springfield race riot of 1908]] ([[Springfield, Illinois]]), August 14–16
* 1908: [[Marshall County, Kentucky]] Whites led by a local doctor drove out blacks from the now extinct city of [[Birmingham, Kentucky|Birmingham]] and most of the rest of Marshall County.
* 1909: [[Greek Town riot]] ([[South Omaha, Nebraska]]), February 21, a successful Greek immigrant community was burnt to the ground by ethnic whites and its residents were forced to leave town.<ref>Larsen, L. & Cotrell, B. (1997). ''The gate city: A history of Omaha.'' University of Nebraska Press. P 163.</ref>
* 1909: [[Harrison, Arkansas]] Resulted in the expulsion of Harrison's black residents.<ref name="encyclopediaofarkansas_net" />
* 1910: Nationwide riots following the [[The Johnson–Jeffries Fight|heavyweight championship fight]] between [[Jack Johnson (boxer)#Riots and aftermath|Jack Johnson]] and [[James J. Jeffries|Jim Jeffries]] in [[Reno, Nevada]] on July 4.
* 1910 [[Slocum massacre]] (around [[Slocum, Texas]]), July 29–30, between eight and two hundred Black residents were killed by hundreds of armed white men. Eleven white men were arrested, none went to trial.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://zinnedproject.org/2014/07/slocum-massacre/|title=July 29, 1910: Slocum Massacre in Texas - Zinn Education Project|website=zinnedproject.org|access-date=2 September 2017|archive-date=November 29, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161129150906/https://zinnedproject.org/2014/07/slocum-massacre/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* 1912: [[1912 racial conflict in Forsyth County, Georgia#Aftermath: racial expulsion|lynching and racial expulsion]] in [[Forsyth County, Georgia]], October and following months<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.history.com/news/georgia-racial-expulsion-stacey-abrams|title=In 1912, This Georgia County Drove Out Every Black Resident|date=August 20, 2019|access-date=June 15, 2021|archive-date=July 9, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709182958/https://www.history.com/news/georgia-racial-expulsion-stacey-abrams|url-status=live}}</ref>
* 1913: Mass lynching of 9 Mexican bandits, ([[El Paso, Texas]])
===World wars, interwar period, and post war period (1914–1954)===
{{see also|African-American veterans lynched after World War I}}
{{further|Nadir of American race relations}}
[[File:East St Louis Massacre cartoon, Morris.jpg|thumb|A political cartoon about the East St. Louis massacres of 1917; the caption reads, "Mr. President, why not make America safe for democracy?"]]
* 1915: [[Leyden riot]]. Anti-[[Protestantism|Protestant]] riots; Catholics riot over ministers criticizing parochial schools.
* 1915: Mass lynching of 11 supposed Mexican bandits, ([[Lyford, Texas]])
* 1915: Mass lynching of 10 Mexican Americans, ([[Olmito, Texas]])
* 1915: Mass lynching of 5 Mexicans, ([[Culberson County, Texas]])
* 1915: Mass lynching of 6 Mexicans, ([[Brownsville, Texas]])
* 1915: Mass lynching of 4 Mexicans, ([[Douglas, Arizona]])
* 1917: Anti-Greek riots occurred in Salt Lake City which "almost resulted" in lynching of a Greek immigrant.<ref name="LeMay">{{cite book|last1=LeMay|first1=Michael C.|title=Guarding the Gates: Immigration and National Security|date=2006|publisher=Praeger Security International|___location=Westport, Connecticut|isbn=978-0275992941|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=5H0HEOAjDD4C&dq=a+period+of+severe+anti-greek+press+followed&pg=PA82 82]}}</ref>
* 1917: [[El Paso, Texas]]. The [[1917 Bath riots]] took place over a two-day period from January 28–30. The riot started after a 17-year-old woman by the name [[Carmelita Torres]] was ordered to be disembark and submit to the disinfection process but she refused to, having heard reports that nude women were being photographed while in the baths. She requested permission to enter without submitting to bathing and was refused. She then demanded a refund of her fare and upon refusal of a refund convinced the other women on her cable car to protest. The women began shouting and hurling stones at health and immigration officials, sentries and civilians, who had gathered to watch the disturbance. As the rioting went on, men began joining in on the rioting.
* 1917: [[East St. Louis riots]]. On July 1 in [[East St. Louis, Illinois]], an African-American man was rumored to have killed a white man. Violence against African-Americans continued for a week, resulting in estimations of 40 to 200 dead African-Americans. In addition, almost 6,000 African-Americans lost their homes during the riots, then fled East St. Louis.<ref name="auto3"/>
* 1917: [[Chester, Pennsylvania]]. The [[1917 Chester race riot]] took place over four days in July. White hostility toward southern Blacks moving to Chester for wartime economy jobs erupted into a four-day melee sparked by the stabbing of a white man by a Black man. Mobs of hundreds of people fought throughout the city and the violence resulted in 7 deaths, 28 gunshot wounds, 360 arrests and hundreds of hospitalizations.<ref name=Mack>{{cite web |last1=Mack |first1=Will |title=The Chester, Pennsylvania Race Riot (1917) |url=https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/1917-race-riot-chester-pennsylvania-1917/ |website=www.blackpast.org |date=November 22, 2017 |access-date=9 May 2020 |archive-date=August 8, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200808002410/https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/1917-race-riot-chester-pennsylvania-1917/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* 1917: [[Lexington, Kentucky]]. Tensions already existed between Black and white populations over the lack of [[affordable housing]] in the city during the [[Great Migration (African American)|Great Migration]]. On the day of the riot, September 1, the Colored A.&M. Fair, one of the largest African American fairs in the South, on Georgetown Pike attracted more African Americans from the surrounding area into the city. Also during this time, some [[United States National Guard|National Guard]] troops were camping on the edge of the city. Three troops passed in front of an African American restaurant and shoved some people on the sidewalk. A fight broke out, reinforcements for the troops and citizens both appeared, and soon a riot had begun. The [[Kentucky National Guard]] was summoned, and once the riot had ended, armed soldiers on foot and mount and police patrolled the streets. All other National Guard troops were barred from the city streets until the fair ended.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nkaa.uky.edu/nkaa/items/show/2069|title=Race Riot of 1917 (Lexington, KY) · Notable Kentucky African Americans Database|website=nkaa.uky.edu|access-date=2020-02-05|archive-date=February 5, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200205181736/https://nkaa.uky.edu/nkaa/items/show/2069|url-status=live}}</ref>
* 1917: [[Houston riot (1917)|Houston]]. Following an incident where police officers arrested and assaulted black soldiers, many of their comrades mutinied and marched to Houston. There they opened fire and killed eleven civilians (including a minor, Freddie Winkler) and five policemen. Four black soldiers were killed by friendly fire.
* 1918: [[Philadelphia]]
* 1918: [[Porvenir massacre (1918)|Porvenir, Texas]]
* 1919: [[Red Summer]]. Tension in the summer of 1919 stemmed significantly from white soldiers returning from World War I and finding that their jobs had been taken by African-Americans moving north as part of the [[Great Migration (African American)|Great Migration]].<ref> Williams 2014, pp. 315-317 </ref>
** [[Elaine race riot]] ([[Elaine, Arkansas]])
** [[Washington race riot of 1919]]
** [[Jenkins County, Georgia, riot of 1919]]
** [[Macon, Mississippi, race riot]]
** [[Chicago race riot of 1919]]
** [[Baltimore riot of 1919]]
** [[Omaha race riot of 1919]]
** [[Charleston riot of 1919]]
** [[Longview, Texas]]
** [[Knoxville riot of 1919]] ([[Knoxville, Tennessee]])
* 1920: [[Ocoee massacre]] ([[Ocoee, Florida]]). To stop African Americans from voting; Ocoee ended up almost all white.
* 1920: [[West Frankfort, Illinois]]
* 1921: Springfield race riot of 1921 ([[Springfield, Ohio]])<ref name=":02" />
* 1921: [[Tulsa race massacre]] ([[Tulsa, Oklahoma]])
:Between May 31st and June 1st, a young white woman accused an African American man of grabbing her arm in an elevator. The man, Dick Rowland, was arrested and police launched an investigation. A mob of armed white men gathered outside the Tulsa County Courthouse, where gunfire ensued. During the violence, 1,250 homes were destroyed and roughly 6,000 African-Americans were imprisoned after the Oklahoma National Guard was called in. The state of Oklahoma reports that twenty-six African-Americans died along with 10 whites.
* 1922 [[Perry massacre]] ([[Perry, Florida]])
* 1923: [[Rosewood Massacre]] ([[Rosewood, Florida]])
* 1923: [[Blanford, Indiana]] [[Ku Klux Klan]]-led expulsion.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Jaspin |first1=Elliot |title=Leave or die: America's hidden history of racial expulsions |url=https://www.statesman.com/news/20161014/leave-or-die-americas-hidden-history-of-racial-expulsions |website=statesman.com |publisher=Austin American-Statesman |access-date=March 29, 2019}}</ref>
* 1926: Harlem riots of July 1926. between unemployed Jews and Puerto Ricans over jobs and housing. This riot started on One Hundred and Fifteenth Street (115th), between Lenox and Park Avenues. Reserves from four Police precincts struggled for nearly half an hour before they dispersed a crowd estimated at more than 2,000 and brought temporary peace to the neighborhood.
* 1926: Mass lynching of 4 Mexican Americans and an Austrian, ([[Raymondville, Texas]])
* 1927: [[Little Rock, Arkansas]]: Lynching of John Carter, a suspect in a murder, was followed by rioting by 5,000 whites in the city, who destroyed a Black business area<ref>[http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=2289 Brian D. Greer, "John Carter (Lynching of)"], ''Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture,'' 2013</ref>
* 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.{{citation needed|date=November 2011}}
* 1927: Yakima Valley, WA — [[Yakima Valley riots]] (anti-Filipino)<ref name="CSPNW2">{{cite web|title=IV. Timeline: Asian Americans in Washington State History|url=http://www.washington.edu/uwired/outreach/cspn/Website/Classroom%20Materials/Curriculum%20Packets/Asian%20Americans/Section%20IV.html|access-date=5 January 2012|work=Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest|publisher=University of Washington|archive-date=June 28, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110628144558/http://www.washington.edu/uwired/outreach/cspn/Website/Classroom%20Materials/Curriculum%20Packets/Asian%20Americans/Section%20IV.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
* 1928: Wenatchee Valley — Wenatchee Valley anti-Filipino riot<ref name="CSPNW2" />
* 1929: Exeter, NH — Exeter anti-Filipino riot<ref name="sschawaii2">{{cite web|title=Racial Riots|url=http://opmanong.ssc.hawaii.edu/filipino/riots.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120106122739/http://opmanong.ssc.hawaii.edu/filipino/riots.html|archive-date=6 January 2012|access-date=5 January 2012|work=Office of Multicultural Student Services|publisher=University of Hawaii}}</ref>
* 1930: [[Watsonville Riots|Watsonville, California]] anti-Filipino riot
* 1931: [[Arthur and Edith Lee House]] incident.
* 1931: [[1931 Chicago housing protests|Housing protests]], August 3, [[Chicago]]
* 1931: [[Massie Trial|Hawaii riot]], [[Hawaii]]
* 1933: December 17, [[Chicago]]. Several hundred communists attacked a march organized by Ukrainian immigrants to protest the policies of the Soviet Union towards Ukraine. Over 100 people were injured as the communists threw bricks and rocks as well as beat people with clubs.<ref>{{cite web|title=100 HURT IN W. SIDE RED RIOT|url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1933/12/18/page/1/article/100-hurt-in-w-side-red-riot|website=archives.chicagotribune.com|publisher=Chicago Tribune|accessdate=September 4, 2017|archive-date=September 4, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170904154004/http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1933/12/18/page/1/article/100-hurt-in-w-side-red-riot/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* 1935: [[List of Cincinnati riots|Cincinnati race riot]]
* 1935: [[Harlem Riot of 1935|Harlem]], [[Manhattan]], New York City
* 1939: [[1939 Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden|U.S. Nazi Riot]], [[New York City]]
* 1943: [[1943 Detroit race riot|Detroit]]
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* 1942: [[Sojourner Truth Project#Sojourner Truth riot|Sojourner Truth Homes Riot]], February 28, [[Detroit, Michigan]]
* 1943: [[Beaumont race riot of 1943]]
* 1943: [[Harlem riot of 1943|Harlem]], [[Manhattan]], New York City
* 1943: [[Zoot Suit Riots|Los Angeles]]
* 1944: [[Agana race riot|Guam]]
* 1946: Columbia race riot of 1946, February 25–26, [[Columbia, Tennessee]]
* 1946: [[Airport Homes race riots]], [[Chicago]]
* 1947: [[Fernwood Park race riot]], mid-August, [[Fernwood, Chicago]]
* 1947: July 25–28, [[Chicago]], about 2,000 whites gathered outside a house at 7153 South Saint Lawrence Avenue after a black postal worker named Roscoe Johnson bought it. The house was firebombed and nearly destroyed and disturbances occurred in the neighborhood for three days after the initial violence.<ref name="siege">{{cite news|last=Pilkington|first=Ed|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/31/a-siege-a-bomb-48-dogs-and-the-black-commune-that-would-not-surrender|title=A siege. A bomb. 48 dogs. And the black commune that would not surrender|date=July 31, 2018|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|archive-date=June 17, 2024|access-date=October 21, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240617123946/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/31/a-siege-a-bomb-48-dogs-and-the-black-commune-that-would-not-surrender|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Meyer|first1=Stephen Grant|title=As Long as They Don't Move Next Door: Segregation and Racial Conflict in American Neighborhoods|date=2001|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|page=117}}</ref>
* 1949: [[Fairground Park riot]], June 21, [[St. Louis]]
* 1949: [[Anacostia Pool Riot]], June 29, [[Anacostia, Washington, D.C.]]
* 1949: [[Peekskill riots]], [[Peekskill, New York]]
* 1949: [[Englewood race riot]], November 8–12, [[Englewood, Chicago]]
* 1951: [[Cicero race riot of 1951]], July 12, [[Cicero, Illinois]]
* 1953: White residents of the [[Trumbull Park Homes]] rioted for weeks after a black family was moved into the project. More riots occurred after 10 more black families were moved in.
* 1954: [[Vienna, Illinois]] White residents burned down all the black homes of Vienna and nearby areas outside city limits. The expulsion was sparked by the murder of an elderly white woman and the attempted rape of her teenage granddaughter by two black men.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Loewen |first1=James |title=Sundown Towns |date=2005 |publisher=New Press |___location=New York |isbn=156584887X |url=https://sundown.tougaloo.edu/content/sundown-introduction.pdf |archive-date=July 11, 2024 |access-date=January 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240711045215/https://sundown.tougaloo.edu/content/sundown-introduction.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>
===Civil rights movement (1955–1973)===
[[File:Wattsriots-burningbuildings-loc.jpg|thumb|right|Buildings burning during Watts riot]]
[[File:Wattsriots-policearrest-loc.jpg|right|thumb|Police make arrests during protest actions]]
* 1956: [[Mansfield School Integration Incident]] 400 pro-segregationists brandishing weapons and racist signage prevent 12 black children from entering Mansfield High School [[Mansfield, Texas]]
* 1958: [[Battle of Hayes Pond]], January 18, [[Maxton, North Carolina]], Armed confrontation between members of the NC Lumbee tribe and the KKK.
* 1960: [[Ax Handle Saturday]], August 27, [[Jacksonville, Florida]]
* [[Ole Miss riot of 1962]], September 30–October 1; [[Oxford, Mississippi]]
* [[Birmingham riot of 1963]]; [[Birmingham, Alabama]] – May
* [[Cambridge riot of 1963]]; [[Cambridge, Maryland]] – June
* [[Chester school protests|Chester school protests of 1964]]; [[Chester, Pennsylvania]] - April
* [[Rochester 1964 race riot]]; [[Rochester, New York]] – July
* [[Harlem riot of 1964|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 race riot]], August 16–17, [[Chicago]]
* [[Watts riots|Watts riot of 1965]]; [[Watts, Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles, California]] – August: This predominately African-American neighborhood exploded with violence from August 11 to August 17 after the arrest of 21-year old Marquette Frye, a Black motorist who was arrested by a white highway patrolman. During his arrest a crowd had gathered and a fight broke out between the crowd and the police, escalating to the point in which rocks and concrete were thrown at police. 30,000 people were recorded participating in the riots and fights with police, which left thirty four people dead, 1,000 injured and 4,000 arrested.
* 1966: [[Timeline of racial tension in Omaha, Nebraska#1950 to 2000|Omaha riot of 1966]], July 2, [[Omaha, Nebraska]]
* 1966: [[1966 Chicago West Side Riots|1966 Chicago West-Side riots]], July 12–15, Chicago, Illinois
* 1966: [[1966 New York City riots]], July 14–20, [[New York City]], a riot broke out following a dispute between white and black youths. One person was killed and 53 injured. There were three arson incidents and 82 arrests.<ref name=":1" />
* 1966: [[Perth Amboy riots]], August 2–5, [[Perth Amboy, New Jersey]], a riot broke out following the arrest of a Hispanic man for loitering. Hispanic residents also disliked being treated negatively by the police and being ignored by the community. 26 injuries were reported (15 from law enforcement officers and 11 from civilians) and 43 arrests were made. Interference with firefighters occurred.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite news|last=Fleeman|first=Michael|date=June 10, 1988|title=Town Outraged, Divided over Cop's Fatal Shooting of Hispanic|work=AP News|url=https://apnews.com/article/aac2ff0189e29c9e862ddf9de8ae4a06|access-date=June 12, 2021|archive-date=April 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210420000028/https://apnews.com/article/aac2ff0189e29c9e862ddf9de8ae4a06|url-status=live}}</ref>
* 1966: [[Waukegan Riot of 1966|Waukegan riot]], August 27, [[Waukegan, Illinois]]
* 1966: [[Benton Harbor riots]], August 30 – September 4, [[Benton Harbor, Michigan]]
* 1966: Summerhill and Vine City Riots, September 6–8 [[Atlanta]]
* 1966: [[1966 Clearwater riot]], October 31, [[Clearwater, Florida]]<ref>{{Cite news|date=November 1, 1966|title=Negroes Riot For 6 Hours|work=The Capital Journal|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/24675851/the-capital-journal/|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|archive-date=September 8, 2021|access-date=October 20, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210908222647/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/24675851/the-capital-journal/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Hough riots]], [[Cleveland]] – July 1966
* [[Division Street riots]], [[Chicago]] – June 1966
*1966: July 31, [[Chicago]], white residents attacked 550 civil rights protesters who marched into their neighborhood.<ref>{{cite news|title=54 Hurt as Whites in Chicago Hurl Bricks at Rights Marchers; WHITES IN CHICAGO ATTACK MARCHERS|work=The New York Times|date=August 1966|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9907E5D91130E03ABC4953DFBE66838D679EDE&legacy=true|accessdate=November 21, 2017|archive-date=December 1, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201031828/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9907E5D91130E03ABC4953DFBE66838D679EDE&legacy=true|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Marquette Park rallies#Chicago Freedom movement|Marquette Park riot]]; [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]] – August 1966
* [[1966 Dayton race riot]], [[Dayton, Ohio]] – September
* [[Hunters Point social uprising (1966)|Hunters Point riot 1966]] – [[San Francisco]] – September
* [[1967 Newark riots]], [[Newark, New Jersey]] – July
* [[1967 Plainfield riots]], [[Plainfield, New Jersey]] – July
* [[1967 Detroit riot|12th Street riot]], [[Detroit]] – July
* [[1967 New York City riot]], [[Harlem]], [[New York City]] – July
* [[Cambridge riot of 1967]], [[Cambridge, Maryland]] – July
* [[1967 Rochester riot]], [[Rochester, New York]] – July
* [[1967 Pontiac riot]], [[Pontiac, Michigan]] – July
* [[1967 Toledo Riot]], [[Toledo, Ohio]] – July
* [[1967 Flint riot]], [[Flint, Michigan]] – July
* [[1967 Grand Rapids riot]], [[Grand Rapids, Michigan]] – July
* [[1967 Houston riot]], [[Houston]] – July
* [[1967 Englewood riot]], [[Englewood, New Jersey]] – July
* [[1967 Tucson riot]], [[Tucson, Arizona]] – July
* [[1967 Milwaukee riots|1967 Milwaukee riot]], [[Milwaukee]] – July
* [[1967 Minneapolis Riot|1967 Minneapolis North Side riots]] [[Minneapolis-Saint Paul]] – August
* [[Albina Riot of 1967|1967 Albina Riot]] [[Portland, Oregon]] – August 30<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://oregonhistoryproject.org/articles/historical-records/albina-riot-1967/#.VzYV2dIrLcs|title=Albina Riot, 1967|website=The Oregon History Project|access-date=2016-10-11|archive-date=June 9, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160609212745/http://oregonhistoryproject.org/articles/historical-records/albina-riot-1967/#.VzYV2dIrLcs|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Orangeburg massacre]], [[Orangeburg, South Carolina]] – February 1968
* [[King assassination riots]], 125 cities in April and May in response to the [[assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.]], including:
** [[Baltimore riot of 1968]], [[Baltimore]]
** [[1968 Washington, D.C. riots]], [[Washington, D.C.]]
** [[1968 New York City riot]], [[New York City]]
** [[1968 Chicago riots|West Side Riots]], [[Chicago]]
** [[1968 Detroit riot]], [[Detroit]]
** [[Louisville riots of 1968]], [[Louisville, Kentucky]]
** [[1968 Pittsburgh riots|Hill District MLK riots]], [[Pittsburgh]]
** [[Wilmington riot of 1968|1968 Wilmington riots]] ([[Wilmington, Delaware]])
** [[Summit, Illinois, race riot]] at Argo High School, September 1968
* 1968: [[Glenville shootout|Glenville shootout and riot]]
* [[1968 Miami riot]]
* [[1968 Democratic National Convention]]
* [[1969 York race riot]], [[York, Pennsylvania]] – July
* [[1969 Hartford Riots]], September 1–4, [[Hartford, Connecticut]]
* [[1970 Augusta riot|Augusta riot]], [[Augusta, Georgia]] – May
* [[Jackson State killings|Jackson State killings of 1970]], [[Jackson, Mississippi]] – May
* [[1970 Asbury Park race riots|Asbury Park riots]], [[Asbury Park, New Jersey]] – July
* [[Chicano Moratorium|Chicano Moratorium of 1970]], an anti [[Vietnam War]] protest turned riot in [[East Los Angeles, California|East Los Angeles]] – August
* East LA Riots, January 31, 1971 [[East Los Angeles, California]]
* Bridgeport Riots, May 20–21, 1971 [[Bridgeport, Connecticut]]
* Chattanooga riot,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/05/23/archives/150-arrested-in-2-nights-of-rioting-in-chattanooga.html|title=150 Arrested in 2 Nights of Rioting in Chattanooga|date=1971-05-23|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-03-04|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> May 21–24, 1971 [[Chattanooga, Tennessee]]
* Oxnard Riots, July 19, 1971 [[Oxnard, California]]
* Riverside Riots, August 8–9, 1971 [[Riverside, California]]
* [[Camden Riots of 1971|Camden riots]], August 19–22, [[Camden, New Jersey]]
* [[Escambia High School riots]], [[Pensacola, Florida]]
* Blackstone Park Riots, July 16–18, 1972, [[Boston]]
* 1972: Coast of [[North Vietnam]] — [[USS Kitty Hawk riot|USS Kitty Hawk Riot]] (October 12–13)
* [[Dallas Police Department#Murder of Santos Rodriguez|Santos Rodriguez riot of 1973]], July 28, [[Dallas]]
===Post-civil rights era (1974–1989)===
* 1974: [[SLA Shootout]], May 17, [[Los Angeles]]
* 1974-1976: [[Boston busing crisis]]
* 1975: [[Livernois–Fenkell riot]], July 1975, [[Detroit]]
* 1976: [[Escambia High School riots]], February 5, [[Pensacola, Florida]]
* 1976: [[Marquette Park rallies|Racial violence in Marquette Park, Chicago]]
* 1977: [[Humboldt Park riot]], June 5–6, [[Chicago]]
* 1978: [[Murder of Joe Campos Torres#Moody Park Riot|Moody Park riots]], [[Houston]]
* 1979: Worcester, MA — Great Brook Valley Projects Riots (Puerto Ricans rioted)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.discovercentralma.org/sp/resistance--the-riots-of-great-brook-valley-photographic-exhibit/|title=Resistance: The Riots of Great Brook Valley Photographic Exhibit - Discover Central Massachusetts|date=October 9, 2018|access-date=June 14, 2023|archive-date=May 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506180636/https://www.discovercentralma.org/sp/resistance--the-riots-of-great-brook-valley-photographic-exhibit/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[1980 Miami riots]] – following the acquittal of four police officers in [[Miami-Dade County, Florida|Miami-Dade County]] 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.
* Miami riot 1982, December 28, rioting broke out after police shot and killed a black man in video game arcade. Another man was killed in the riots, more than 25 people were injured and 40 arrested. [[Overtown (Miami)|Overtown]] section of [[Miami]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1982/12/31/miami-racial-tensions-fester/f29570e6-b989-42f8-a850-6c5a4862d53d/ |title=Miami Racial Tensions Fester |date=1982-12-31 |author1=Edward Cody |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |place=Washington, D.C. |issn=0190-8286 |oclc=1330888409 |archive-date=January 2, 2020 |access-date=October 19, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200102215433/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1982/12/31/miami-racial-tensions-fester/f29570e6-b989-42f8-a850-6c5a4862d53d/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* 1984: Lawrence race riot ([[Lawrence, Massachusetts]]), a small scale riot was centered at the intersection of Haverhill and railroad streets between working class whites and Hispanics; several buildings were destroyed by [[Molotov cocktail]]s; August 8, 1984.<ref>{{cite web|title=Race riots in Lawrence|work=The Ten O'Clock News |date=1984-08-09|last=McNeil|first=Robert|url=http://openvault.wgbh.org/ton/mla000400/index.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081210183248/http://openvault.wgbh.org/ton/MLA000400/index.html|archive-date=2008-12-10|access-date=2009-12-31|url-status=dead|via=openvault}}</ref>
* 1984: 1984 Miami riot in [[Miami]]
* 1985: [[1985 MOVE bombing|MOVE Bombing]] - May 13, 1985, the [[Philadelphia Police Department|Philadelphia Police]] bombed a residential home occupied by the Black militant [[Anarcho-primitivism|anarcho-primitivist]] group [[MOVE (Philadelphia organization)|MOVE]] in [[Philadelphia]].
* [[1989 Miami riot]] - was sparked after police officer William Lozano shot Clement Lloyd, who was fleeing another officer and trying to run over Officer Lozano on his motorcycle.
===Since 1990===
[[File:ANG40InfantryDivisionLosAngelesRiot1992.jpg|thumb|right|[[Patrol]] of [[National Guard of the United States|National guard]] after [[1992 Los Angeles riots|riots]] in [[Los Angeles]] in 1992]]
[[File:20200529- DSC8322 (49950975626).jpg|thumb|Rioters in [[George Floyd protests in Minneapolis–Saint Paul|Minneapolis]] during [[2020–2021 United States racial unrest|nationwide unrest]] in 2020]]
* 1990: [[1990 Wynwood riot|Wynwood riot]] (Puerto Ricans rioted after a jury acquitted six officers accused of beating a Puerto Rican drug dealer to death)
* 1991: [[Crown Heights riot]] – between West Indian immigrants and the area's large [[Hasidic Jewish]] community, over the accidental killing of a Guyanese immigrant child by an [[Orthodox Judaism|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 for a Jew by the rioters, was killed by a group of African-American men.
* 1991: [[Overtown, Miami]] – In the heavily Black section against [[Cuban Americans]], like earlier riots which occurred there in 1982 and 1984.
* 1991: [[1991 Washington, D.C. riot]] – Riots following the shooting of a [[Salvadoran Americans|Salvadoran]] man by a police officer in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood, aggravated by grievances which were felt by [[Hispanics and Latinos in Washington, D.C.|Latinos]] in the district.
* 1992: [[1992 Los Angeles riots]] – April 29 to May 4 – 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: [[West Las Vegas riots]], April 29, [[Las Vegas]]
* 1992: [[1992 Washington Heights riots]], July 4–7, [[Manhattan]], [[New York City]], Dominican community
* 1996: [[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 in [[Cincinnati]]
* 2009: [[Oakland, California|Oakland, CA]] – [[BART Police shooting of Oscar Grant#Aftermath|Riots following the BART Police shooting of Oscar Grant]].
* 2012: [[Anaheim, California]] Riot—followed the shooting of two Hispanic males
* 2014: [[2014 Ferguson unrest|Ferguson, MO riots]] – Riots following the [[Shooting of Michael Brown#Aftermath|Shooting of Michael Brown]]
* 2015: [[Charleston church shooting]], June 17, [[Charleston, South Carolina]]
* 2015: [[2015 Baltimore riots]] – Riots following the [[Killing of Freddie Gray|death of Freddie Gray]]
* 2015: [[Ferguson unrest]] – Riots following the anniversary of the [[shooting of Michael Brown]]
* 2016: [[2016 Milwaukee riots]] – Riots following the fatal shooting of 23 year old Sylville Smith.
* 2016: [[2016 Charlotte riot|Charlotte riot]], September 20–21 – Riots started in response to the [[shooting of Keith Lamont Scott]] by police
* 2017: [[Assault of DeAndre Harris]], August 12 – [[Far-right politics|Far-right]] extremists cause the [[assault of DeAndre Harris]] during the [[Unite the Right rally]] in [[Charlottesville, Virginia]]
* 2020: [[United States racial unrest (2020–2023)]] – Protests sparked by the [[murder of George Floyd]], numerous disturbances broke out in other cities.
==See also==
* [[
* [[List of antisemitic incidents in the United States]]
* [[List of ethnic riots#United States]]
* [[List of incidents of civil unrest in the United States]]
* [[Radicalism in the United States]]
* [[White nationalism#United States]]
* [[White supremacy#United States]]
* [[Xenophobia#United States]]
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==References==
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===Further reading===
* Brophy, A.L. ''Reconstructing the dreamland: The Tulsa race riot of 1921'' (2002)
* Brubaker, Rogers, and David D. Laitin. "Ethnic and nationalist violence." ''Annual Review of sociology'' 24.1 (1998): 423–452. [https://www.academia.edu/download/49125993/brubaker_20and_20laitin.pdf online]
* Chicago Commission on Race Relations. ''The Negro in Chicago: A study of race relations and a race riot'' (1922) [https://archive.org/details/negroinchicagost00chic online]
* [[Philip Dray|Dray, Philip]]. ''At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America'', (Random House, 2002).
* Gilje, Paul A. ''Rioting in America'' (1996), examines 4000 American riots. [https://archive.org/details/riotinginamerica00gilj online]
* Gottesman, Ronald, ed. ''Violence in America: An Encyclopedia'' (3 vol 1999) [https://archive.org/details/violenceinameric00gott/page/n1/mode/thumb?view=theater vol 2 online], comprehensive guide by experts
* Graham, Hugh D. and Ted R Gurr, eds. ''The History of Violence in America: Historical and Comparative Perspectives'' (1969) (A Report Submitted to the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence) [https://books.google.com/books?id=Hg8Rlzel9mMC&dq=Graham,+Gurr+violence&pg=PA298 online]
* Grimshaw, Allen D. ''Racial violence in the United States'' (1969) [https://archive.org/details/racialviolencein0000grim online]
* Grimshaw, Allen D. "Lawlessness and violence in America and their special manifestations in changing negro-white relationships." ''Journal of Negro History'' 44.1 (1959): 52–72. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2716313 online]
* Grimshaw, Allen, ed. ''A social history of racial violence'' (2017).
* Grimshaw, Allen D. "Changing patterns of racial violence in the United States." ''Notre Dame Law Review''. 40 (1964): 534+ [https://scholarship.law.nd.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://scholar.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=3254&context=ndlr online]
* Hall, Patricia Wong, and Victor M. Hwang, eds. ''Anti-Asian Violence in North America: Asian American and Asian Canadian Reflections on Hate, Healing and Resistance'' (2001)
* Hofstadter, Richard, and Michael Wallace, eds. ''American violence: A documentary history'' (1970). [https://archive.org/details/americanviolence0000hofs online]
* Howell, Frank M., et al. "When faith, race, and hate collide: Religious ecology, local hate cultures, and church burnings." ''Review of Religious Research'' 60.2 (2018): 223–245.
* Ifill, Sherrilyn A. ''On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-first Century'' (Beacon Press, 2007) {{ISBN|978-0-8070-0987-1}}
* Rable, George C. '' But There Was No Peace: The Role of Violence in the Politics of Reconstruction'' (1984)
* Rapoport, David C. "Before the bombs there were the mobs: American experiences with terror." ''Terrorism and Political Violence'' 20.2 (2008): 167–194. [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233203443_Before_the_Bombs_There_Were_the_Mobs_American_Experiences_with_Terror_1 online]
* Smith McKoy, Sheila. ''When whites riot : writing race and violence in American and South African cultures'' (2001) [https://archive.org/details/whenwhitesriotwr0000smit online]
* Werner, John Melvin. "Race riots in the United States during the age of Jackson: 1824-1849" (PhD dissertation, Indiana University; ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1972. 7314619).
* Williams, John A. "The Long Hot the Summers of Yesteryear," ''History Teacher'' 1.3 (1968): 9–23. [http://users.clas.ufl.edu/davidson/Historical%20archaeology%20fall%202015/Week%2015%20Rosewood/williams%201968.pdf online]
* Williams, Tuttle M. Jr. (2014). Red Summer of 1919. In The Great Black Migration : A Historical Encyclopedia of the American Mosaic (pp. 315–317).
==External links==
* [http://racialviolenceus.org/Data/tuskegeelynchingstatistics.pdf Lynchings: By State and Race, 1882–1968]
* [https://guides.loc.gov/racial-massacres-1919 Racial Massacres and the Red Summer of 1919: A Resource Guide, from the Library of Congress]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090903112108/http://www.bongiornoproductions.com/REVOLUTION%20'67/REVOLUTION%20'67.html Revolution '67] – Documentary about the Newark, New Jersey, race riots of 1967
* [http://www.detroits-great-rebellion.com/ Uprisings] Urban riots of the 1960s.
* [http://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=5170 Race riots in Arkansas history ]
*[http://www.zinnedproject.org/news/bryan-stevenson-on-the-history-of-racial-terror/ Bryan Stevenson on the History of Racial Terror in the United States], from the Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online series.
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