Race riot

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A British Asian rioter hurls a Molotov Cocktail during the Oldham Riots
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A British Asian rioter hurls a Molotov Cocktail during the Oldham Riots

A race riot or racial riot is an outbreak of violent civil unrest in which race is a key factor. The term had entered the English language in the United States by the 1890s. Early use of the term in the United States referred to race riots which were often a dominant culture mob action against individuals or groups of people from other races. Much later, the term came to describe violence and property destruction by racial minority groups often directed at neighborhood business, government representatives and law enforcement agencies perceived as unfairly targeting racial groups. Mob rule, religious animosity, vigilantism, Jim Crow, lynching, racial profiling, economics, police brutality, institutional racism, urban renewal, and racial identity politics are often cited as causes of these riots. However, political decisions, repression and social hate by national or local levels of government and the larger community directed towards a certain race usually contributes to this type of riot.

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[edit] Australia

[edit] Belgium

[edit] Canada

[edit] France

[edit] Indonesia

[edit] Malaysia

[edit] Rhodesia

  • Kananga (1925) - Kananga Riot of 1925

[edit] Singapore

[edit] United Kingdom

See also Rivers of Blood

[edit] United States

[edit] Nativist Period 1700's-1860

  • 1829: Cincinnati, Ohio Riots begun by Whites to terrorize the Black community resulted in thousands of Blacks leaving for Canada.
  • 1829: Charlestown Anti-Catholic Riots
  • 1834: Massachusetts Convent Burning
  • 1835: Five Points Riot
  • 1836: Cincinnati, Ohio A pro-slavery riot took place
  • 1841: Cincinnati, Ohio White Irish-descendant and Irish immigrant dock workers rioted against Black dock workers. When the Black dock workers banded together to defend their community from the approaching Whites, the White rioters retreated and then commandeered a 6-pound cannon and shot it through the streets of Cincinnati.
  • 1844: Philadelphia Anti-Catholic Riots (May 6-8/July 5-8)
  • 1849: Astor Place Riot
  • 1851: Hoboken Anti-German Riot
  • 1855: Louisville Anti-German Riots

[edit] Civil War Period 1861-1865


[edit] Reconstruction Period: 1865 - 1877

  • 1866: New Orleans, Louisiana
  • 1866: Memphis, Tennessee
  • 1868: Pulaski, Tennessee
  • 1868: Opelousas, Louisiana
  • 1868: Camilla, Georgia
  • 1870: Meridian, Mississippi
  • 1870: Eutaw, Alabama
  • 1870: Laurens, South Carolina
  • 1870: New York City Orange Riot
  • 1871: Second New York City Orange Riot
  • 1871: Los Angeles Anti-Chinese Riot
  • 1891: New Orleans Anti-Italian Riot
  • 1873: Colfax, Louisiana
  • 1874: Vicksburg, Mississippi
  • 1874: New Orleans, Louisiana
  • 1874: Coushatta, Louisiana
  • 1875: Yazoo City, Mississippi
  • 1875: Clinton, Mississippi
  • 1876: Hamburg, South Carolina
  • 1876: Ellenton, South Carolina

[edit] Jim Crow Period: 1890 - 1914

  • 1884 Cincinnati, Ohio The deadliest riot in U.S. history took place. It was started by a predominantley white mob that spanned the social-economic spectrum in reaction to their anger over the failure of a white-immigrant co-defendant to be convicted of murder in a sensationalized trial while their non-white was sentenced to death.
  • 1898: Wilmington Race Riot
  • 1898: Lake City, North Carolina
  • 1898: Greenwood County, South Carolina
  • 1900: New Orleans, Louisiana : Robert Charles Riot
  • 1900: New York City, New York
  • 1906: Atlanta, Georgia
  • 1906: Brownsville, Texas
  • 1908: Springfield, Illinois
  • 1910: Nationwide riots following the heavyweight championship fight between Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries in Reno, Nevada on July 4

[edit] War and Inter-War Period: 1914 - 1945

[edit] Postwar era: 1946 - 1954

  • 1946: Columbia, TN Riot

[edit] Civil Rights and Black Power Movement's Period: 1955 - 1977

[edit] Modern

  • 1980: Miami riot
  • 1980: Chattanooga riot
  • 1992: Los Angeles riots: In a reaction to the acquittal of all LA police officers involved in the videotaped beating of the unarmed, outnumbered, and crawling, Rodney King riots broke out mainly involving Black youth in the Black neighborhood.
  • 2001: Cincinnati riots: In a reaction to the acquittal of Steven Roach after the fatal shooting of an unarmed young Black male, Timothy Thomas, during a foot pursuit, riots broke out over the span of a few days.

See also Mass racial violence in the United States

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