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List of incidents of civil unrest in the United States

List of incidents of civil unrest in the United States

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The following is a list of major incidents of civil unrest, rioting and violent labor disputes in the United States.

18th century

  • 1713 - Boston Bread Riot
    Boston Bread Riot
    The Boston Bread Riot was the last of a series of three riots by the poor of Boston, Massachusetts, between 1710 and 1713, in response to food shortages and high bread prices. The riot ended with minimal casualties.- Riot :...

    , Boston, Massachusetts
  • 1734 - Mast Tree Riot, Fremont, New Hampshire
    Fremont, New Hampshire
    Fremont is a town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 3,510 at the 2000 census. Fremont is crossed by the Rockingham Recreation Trail, the longest rail trail in the state, and NH Route 107.-History:...

  • 1737 - Boston Brothel Riot, Boston, Massachusetts
  • 1741 - New York Slave Insurrection of 1741
    New York Slave Insurrection of 1741
    The Conspiracy of 1741, also known as the Negro Plot of 1741 or the Slave Insurrection of 1741, was a supposed plot by slaves and poor whites in the British colony of New York in 1741 to revolt and level New York City with a series of fires...

    , New York City, New York
  • 1742 - Philadelphia Election Riot
    Philadelphia Election Riot
    The Philadelphia Election Riot in 1742 was a riot by the Anglicans who sought to break the longstanding Quaker political dominance in Philadelphia...

    , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    Philadelphia is the largest city in Pennsylvania and the sixth-most-populous city in the United States.In 2008, the population of the city proper was estimated to be over 1.4 million, while the metropolitan area's population of 5.8 million made it the country's fifth-largest...

  • 1746 - New Jersey Tenant Riots, New Jersey
    New Jersey
    New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It is bordered on the north by New York, and to the east by the Hudson River, Upper New York Bay, the Kill Van Kull, Newark Bay, the Arthur Kill, Raritan Bay, Sandy Hook Bay, Westchester County, New York City, Long Island, and...

  • 1747 - Knowles Riot, Boston, Massachusetts (anti-impressment
    Impressment
    Impressment was the act of compelling men to serve in a navy by force and without notice. It was used by the Royal Navy, beginning in 1664 and during the 18th and early 19th centuries, in wartime, as a means of crewing warships, although legal sanction for the practice goes back to the time of...

    )
  • 1764 - Paxton Riots, Pennsylvania
    Pennsylvania
    The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania , often colloquially referred to as PA by natives and Northeasterners, is a state located in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States...

  • 1765 - Stamp Act riots, Boston
  • 1768 - Liberty Riot, Boston (anti-impressment
    Impressment
    Impressment was the act of compelling men to serve in a navy by force and without notice. It was used by the Royal Navy, beginning in 1664 and during the 18th and early 19th centuries, in wartime, as a means of crewing warships, although legal sanction for the practice goes back to the time of...

     and anti-Townshend Acts
    Townshend Acts
    The Townshend Acts were a series of acts passed beginning in 1767 by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. The acts are named for Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who proposed the program...

    )
  • 1770 - Boston Massacre
    Boston Massacre
    The Boston Massacre was an incident that led to the deaths of five civilians at the hands of British troops on March 5, 1770, the legal aftermath of which helped spark the rebellion in some of the British American colonies, which culminated in the American Revolution...

    , Boston, Massachusetts
  • 1771 - Battle of Alamance
    Battle of Alamance
    The Battle of Alamance ended the so-called War of the Regulation, a rebellion in colonial North Carolina over issues of taxation and local control. Some historians consider it the opening salvo of the American Revolution, although the rebellion was against local government, and not against the king...

    , Regulators, May 1771, Alamance, North Carolina
    North Carolina
    North Carolina is a state located on the Atlantic Seaboard in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties...

  • 1772 - Gaspée Affair
    Gaspée Affair
    The Gaspée Affair was a significant event in the lead-up to the American Revolution. HMS Gaspée, a British revenue schooner that had been enforcing unpopular trade regulations, ran aground in shallow water on June 9, 1772, near what is now known as Gaspee Point in the city of Warwick, Rhode...

    , Rhode Island
  • 1772 - Pine Tree Riot
    Pine Tree Riot
    The Pine Tree Riot was one of the first acts of rebellion by the American colonists against Great Britain leading to the American Revolution.By the late 17th century, Great Britain had few trees remaining which were suitable to be used as masts for merchant and naval ships. White pine trees were...

    , Weare, New Hampshire
    Weare, New Hampshire
    Weare is a town in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 7,776 at the 2000 census, with an estimated population of 9,081 in 2007...

  • 1773 - Boston Tea Party
    Boston Tea Party
    The Boston Tea Party was a direct action by colonists in Boston, a town in the British colony of Massachusetts, against the British government. On December 16, 1773, after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and...

    , Boston, Massachusetts
  • 1786 - Shays Rebellion, August 29, 1786 – February 3, 1787, Western Massachusetts
    Western Massachusetts
    Western Massachusetts is a loosely defined geographical region of the U.S. state of Massachusetts which contains the Berkshires and the Pioneer Valley...

  • 1788 - Doctors Mob Riot, New York City, New York
  • 1793 - New York City Brothel Riot, New York City, New York
  • 1794 - Whiskey Rebellion
    Whiskey Rebellion
    The Whiskey Rebellion, less commonly known as the Whiskey Insurrection, was a popular uprising that had its beginnings in 1791 and culminated in an insurrection in 1794 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the Monongahela Valley. During George Washington's presidency, the government decided to tax...

    , Western Pennsylvania
    Pennsylvania
    The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania , often colloquially referred to as PA by natives and Northeasterners, is a state located in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States...

     (anti-excise tax on whiskey)

19th century

  • 1832 - Anti-Abolitionist Riot, New York City, New York
  • 1834 - Anti-Abolitionist Riot, New York City, New York
  • 1835 - Baltimore bank riot
  • 1835 - Gentleman's Riot, Boston, Massachusetts
  • 1837 - Flour Riots, New York City, New York
  • 1841 - Whig Party Riot, Washington, D.C.
    Washington, D.C.
    Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790...

  • 1841 - Dorr Rebellion
    Dorr Rebellion
    The Dorr Rebellion was a short-lived armed insurrection in the U.S. state of Rhode Island led by Thomas Wilson Dorr, who was agitating for changes to the state's electoral system.- Precursors :...

    , Rhode Island
    Rhode Island
    Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, more commonly referred to as Rhode Island , is a state in the New England region of the United States. It is the smallest U.S. state by area...

  • 1842 - Lombard Street Riot
    Lombard Street Riot
    The Lombard Street Riot, sometimes called the Abolition Riots was a three-day race riot in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1842. The riot was the last in a 13-year period marked by frequent racial attacks in the city...

    , (a.k.a. the Abolition Riots), Aug. 1, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    Philadelphia is the largest city in Pennsylvania and the sixth-most-populous city in the United States.In 2008, the population of the city proper was estimated to be over 1.4 million, while the metropolitan area's population of 5.8 million made it the country's fifth-largest...

  • 1844 - Philadelphia Nativist Riots
    Philadelphia Nativist Riots
    The Philadelphia Nativist Riots were a series of riots that took place between May 6 and 8 and July 6 and 7, 1844 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States and the adjacent districts of Kensington and Southwark...

    , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    Philadelphia is the largest city in Pennsylvania and the sixth-most-populous city in the United States.In 2008, the population of the city proper was estimated to be over 1.4 million, while the metropolitan area's population of 5.8 million made it the country's fifth-largest...

     (anti-immigration)
  • 1849 - Astor Place Riots
    Astor Place Riot
    The Astor Place Riot occurred on May 10, 1849 at the Astor Place Theatre in New York City and left at least 25 dead and more than 120 injured...

    , New York City, New York (anti-British)
  • 1851 - San Francisco Vigilance Movement
    San Francisco Vigilance Movement
    The San Francisco Committee of Vigilance was a popular ad hoc organization formed in 1851 and revived in 1856. Their purpose was to rein in rampant crime and government corruption. They were among the most successful organizations in the vigilante tradition of the American Old West.These militias...

    , San Francisco, California
    San Francisco, California
    San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the 12th most populous city in the United States, with a 2008 estimated population of 808,976. It is the eighth most densely populated city in the U.S. and is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the larger San...

  • 1854 - Know-Nothing Riot 1854, St. Louis, Missouri
    St. Louis, Missouri
    St. Louis is an independent city in the U.S. state of Missouri. With an estimated population of 354,361 in 2008, it is the principal municipality of Greater St. Louis, population 2,866,517, the largest urban area in Missouri and sixteenth largest in the United States...

     (anti-immigration)
  • 1855 - Lager Beer Riot
    Lager Beer Riot
    The Lager Beer Riot occurred in Chicago, Illinois in 1855 after Mayor Levi Boone, great-nephew of Daniel Boone, proposed a local ordinance which would close taverns on Sundays and raise the cost of a liquor license from $50 per year to $300 quarterly. This move was seen as targeting German immigrants...

    , Chicago, Illinois
  • 1855 - Portland Rum Riot
    Portland Rum Riot
    The Portland Rum Riot, also called the Maine Law Riot, was a brief but violent period of civil unrest that occurred in Portland, Maine on June 2, 1855 in response to the Maine law which prohibited the sale and manufacture of alcohol in the state the year before.-History:The Maine law of 1851...

    , June 2, Portland, Maine
    Portland, Maine
    Portland is the largest city in the U.S. state of Maine and the county seat of Cumberland County. The 2007 estimated city population was 62,875. Portland is Maine's cultural, social and economic capital. It is also the principal city of the Portland-South Portland-Biddeford metropolitan area, with...

  • 1855 - Bloody Monday
    Bloody Monday
    Bloody Monday was the name given the election riots of August 6, 1855, in Louisville, Kentucky. These riots grew out of the bitter rivalry between the Democrats and supporters of the Know-Nothing Party. Rumors were started that foreigners and Catholics had interfered with the process of voting...

    , Know-Nothing Party riot, August 6, Louisville, Kentucky
    Louisville, Kentucky
    Louisville is Kentucky's largest city and county seat of Jefferson County. Since 2003, the city's borders have been coterminous with those of the county because of a city-county merger. The city's estimated population as of 2008 was 713,877 , with a population of 1,244,696 in the Louisville...

     (anti-immigration)
  • 1856 - Pottawatomie Massacre
    Pottawatomie Massacre
    The Pottawatomie Massacre occurred during the night of May 24 and the morning of May 25, 1856. In reaction to the sacking of Lawrence by pro-slavery forces, John Brown and a band of abolitionist settlers killed five pro-slavery settlers north of Pottawatomie Creek in Franklin County, Kansas...

    , May 24, Franklin County, Kansas
    Franklin County, Kansas
    Franklin County is a county located in East Central Kansas, in the Central United States. The county's population—one of the fastest growing in the state of Kansas—was estimated to be 26,513 in the year 2006. Its county seat and most populous city is Ottawa...

  • 1856 - Know-Nothing Riot of 1856
    Know-Nothing Riot of 1856
    The Know-Nothing Riot of 1856, some of the worst rioting of the Know-Nothing era in the United States, occurred in Baltimore in the fall of 1856...

    , Baltimore, Maryland
    Baltimore, Maryland
    Baltimore is an independent city and the largest city in the state of Maryland. The city is located in central Maryland along the tidal portion of the Patapsco River, an arm of the Chesapeake Bay. Baltimore is sometimes referred to as Baltimore City in order to distinguish it from surrounding...

  • 1857 - Know-Nothing Riot
    Know-Nothing Riot
    The term "Know-Nothing Riot" has been used to refer to several political uprisings in United States of America during the latter half of the 19th century. These included riots in St. Louis in 1854, Washington, D.C. in 1857, and New Orleans in 1858....

    , June 1, Washington D.C. (anti-immigration)
  • 1857 - New York City Police Riot
    New York City Police Riot
    The New York City Police Riot of 1857, known as the time as the Great Police Riot, was a conflict which occurred between the recently-dissolved New York Municipal Police and the newly-formed Metropolitan Police on June 16, 1857...

    , June 16, New York City, New York
  • 1858 - Know-Nothing Riot 1858, New Orleans, Louisiana
    New Orleans, Louisiana
    New Orleans is a major U.S. port and the largest city in the state of Louisiana. New Orleans is the center of the New Orleans Metropolitan Area, the largest metro area in the state....

  • 1859 – John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry
    John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry
    John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was an attempt by white abolitionist John Brown to start an armed slave revolt by seizing a United States Arsenal at Harpers Ferry in Virginia in 1859...

    , October 16, Harpers Ferry, Virginia
  • 1861 - Baltimore Riot of 1861
    Baltimore riot of 1861
    The Baltimore riot of 1861 was an incident that took place on April 19, 1861, in Baltimore, Maryland between Confederate sympathizers and infantrymen of the United States Army...

    , April 19, Baltimore, Maryland
    Baltimore, Maryland
    Baltimore is an independent city and the largest city in the state of Maryland. The city is located in central Maryland along the tidal portion of the Patapsco River, an arm of the Chesapeake Bay. Baltimore is sometimes referred to as Baltimore City in order to distinguish it from surrounding...

  • 1862 - Buffalo riot of 1862, Buffalo, New York
    Buffalo, New York
    Buffalo is the second most populous city in the state of New York, second only to New York City. Located in Western New York on the eastern shores of Lake Erie and at the head of the Niagara River, Buffalo is the principal city of the Buffalo-Niagara Falls metropolitan area and the seat of Erie...

  • 1863 - New York Draft Riot, New York City, New York (anti-draft)
  • 1864 - Charleston Riot
    Charleston Riot
    The Charleston Riot occurred on March 28, 1864, in Charleston, Illinois, after Union soldiers and local Republicans clashed with local insurgents known as Copperheads. By the time the riot had subsided, nine were dead and twelve had been wounded.-Copperheads:...

    , Charleston, Illinois
    Charleston, Illinois
    Charleston is a city in and the county seat of Coles County, Illinois, United States. The population was 21,039 as of the 2000 census. The city is home to Eastern Illinois University and has close ties with its neighbor Mattoon, Illinois. Both are principal cities of the Charleston–Mattoon...

  • 1866 - Memphis Race Riot, Memphis, Tennessee
    Memphis, Tennessee
    Memphis is a city in the southwest corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County. Memphis rises above the Mississippi River on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff just south of the mouth of the Wolf River....

  • 1866 - New Orleans Riot
    New Orleans Riot
    The New Orleans Riot, was a violent conflict outside of the Mechanics Institute in New Orleans Louisiana Constitutional Convention in 1866. The Radical Republicans in Louisiana that reconvened the Constitutional Convention were angered by the enactment of the Black Codes in Louisiana and by the...

    , New Orleans, Louisiana
    New Orleans, Louisiana
    New Orleans is a major U.S. port and the largest city in the state of Louisiana. New Orleans is the center of the New Orleans Metropolitan Area, the largest metro area in the state....

  • 1868 - Pulaski Riot
    Pulaski Riot
    The Pulaski Riot was a race riot that occurred in the town of Pulaski, Tennessee in the summer of 1868. There were many external racial and societal influences but the origin of the riot appears to be a trade dispute between white Calvin Lamberth and Calvin Carter, an African-American...

    , Pulaski, Tennessee
    Pulaski, Tennessee
    Pulaski is a city in Giles County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 7,871 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Giles County. Pulaski is most well known for being the birthplace of the Ku Klux Klan, although the city has condemned the Klan...

  • 1873 - Colfax Massacre
    Colfax massacre
    The Colfax Massacre or Colfax Riot occurred on Easter Sunday, April 13, 1873, in Colfax, Louisiana, the seat of Grant Parish....

    , April 13, Colfax, Louisiana
    Colfax, Louisiana
    Colfax is a town in and the parish seat of Grant Parish, Louisiana, United States. The town was founded in 1869, named for President Grant's vice-president, Schuyler Colfax . Colfax is part of the Alexandria, Louisiana Metropolitan Statistical Area...

  • 1876 - South Carolina civil disturbances of 1876
    South Carolina civil disturbances of 1876
    The South Carolina civil disturbances of 1876 were a series of race riots and civil unrest sparked by the intense emotions developed because of the gubernatorial election of 1876 in South Carolina. They all occurred in counties where blacks were in the majority, but not significantly...

    , South Carolina
    South Carolina
    South Carolina is a U.S. state that borders Georgia to the south and North Carolina to the north. Originally part of the Province of Carolina, the Province of South Carolina was one of the 13 colonies that declared independence from the British Crown during the American Revolution. The colony was...

  • 1877 - Railroad Strikes of 1877, July 1877, Various locations in USA
  • 1884 - Cincinnati Vigilante Riot, Cincinnati, Ohio
    Cincinnati, Ohio
    Cincinnati is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County. The municipality is located north of the Ohio River at the Ohio-Kentucky border. The population within city limits was estimated to be 333,336 in 2008, making it the state's third largest city...

  • 1885 - Rock Springs massacre
    Rock Springs Massacre
    The Rock Springs massacre occurred on September 2, 1885, in the present-day United States city of Rock Springs, Wyoming, in Sweetwater County...

    , Sept. 2 1885, Riot between Chinese miners and white miners. 28 killed, 15 injured, Rock Springs, Wyoming
    Rock Springs, Wyoming
    Rock Springs is a city in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 18,708 at the 2000 census. Rock Springs is the principal city of the Rock Springs micropolitan statistical area, which has a population of 37,975....

  • 1886 - Haymarket Riot, Chicago, Illinois
  • 1886 - Seattle riot of 1886
    Seattle riot of 1886
    The Seattle riot of 1886 resulted from anti-Chinese sentiment, which was prevalent in the Western United States during the 19th century. The events culminated in March 1886 but the build up to the violence began in late summer 1885 as a result of a concerted effort by regional Knights of Labor...

    , Seattle, Washington
    Seattle, Washington
    Seattle is located in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Situated in the western part of Washington State on an isthmus between Puget Sound and Lake Washington, about south of the Canada – United States border, it is named after Chief Sealth, of the Duwamish and Suquamish tribes...

  • 1892 - Homestead Strike
    Homestead Strike
    The Homestead Strike was an industrial lockout and strike which began on June 30, 1892, culminating in a battle between strikers and private security agents on July 6, 1892. It is one of the most serious labor disputes in US history...

    , July 6, 1892, Homestead, Pennsylvania
    Homestead, Pennsylvania
    Homestead is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA, in the "Mon Valley," seven miles southeast of downtown Pittsburgh but directly across the river from the city limit line.- History :...

  • 1894 - May Day Riots of 1894
    May Day Riots of 1894
    The May Day Riots of 1894 were a series of violent demonstrations that occurred throughout Cleveland, Ohio on May 1 , 1894 . Cleveland's unemployment rate increased dramatically during the Panic of 1893...

    , May 1, Cleveland, Ohio
    Cleveland, Ohio
    Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state. The municipality is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately 60 miles west of the Pennsylvania border...

  • 1894 - Pullman Strike
    Pullman Strike
    The Pullman Strike refers to a nationwide conflict between labor unions and railroads that occurred in the United States in 1894. The conflict began in the town of Pullman, Illinois on May 11 when approximately 3,000 employees of the Pullman Palace Car Company began a wildcat strike in response to...

     participants burn World's Columbian Exposition
    World's Columbian Exposition
    The World's Columbian Exposition — also known as The Chicago World's Fair — was a World's Fair held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World. Chicago bested New York City, Washington, D.C. and St. Louis, Missouri, for the honor of...

     buildings, Chicago, Illinois
  • 1897 - Lattimer massacre
    Lattimer massacre
    The Lattimer massacre refers to the violent death of 19 unarmed striking immigrant anthracite coal miners at the Lattimer mine near Hazleton, Pennsylvania, on September 10, 1897. The miners, mostly of Polish, Slovak, and Lithuanian ethnicity, were shot and killed by a Luzerne County sheriff's...

    , September 1897, near Hazleton, Pennsylvania
    Hazleton, Pennsylvania
    Hazleton is a city in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 23,329 at the 2000 census.-Greater Hazleton:The City of Hazleton and its surrounding communities are collectively known as Greater Hazleton. Greater Hazleton encompasses an area located within three counties:...

  • 1898 - Wilmington Race Riot, November 10, Wilmington, North Carolina
    Wilmington, North Carolina
    Wilmington is a city in and the county seat of New Hanover County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 75,838 at the 2000 Census. A July 1, 2008 United States Census Bureau estimate places the population at 100,192...


1900–1950s

  • 1900 - Robert Charles Riots
    Robert Charles Riots
    The Robert Charles Riots of 1900 were sparked after African American laborer Robert Charles shot a police officer, which led to a manhunt. Twenty-eight people were killed in the conflict, including Robert Charles himself. Many more people were killed and wounded by riots stemming from the manhunt...

    , New Orleans, Louisiana
    New Orleans, Louisiana
    New Orleans is a major U.S. port and the largest city in the state of Louisiana. New Orleans is the center of the New Orleans Metropolitan Area, the largest metro area in the state....

  • 1901 - Denver Riots, Denver, Colorado
    Denver, Colorado
    The City and County of Denver is the capital and the most populous city of the state of Colorado, in the United States. Denver is a consolidated city-county located in the South Platte River Valley on the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains...

  • 1901 - New York Race Riots, New York City, New York
  • 1901 - Pierce City Riots, Pierce City, Montana
  • 1902 - Liverpool Riots, Denver, Colorado
    Denver, Colorado
    The City and County of Denver is the capital and the most populous city of the state of Colorado, in the United States. Denver is a consolidated city-county located in the South Platte River Valley on the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains...

  • 1903 - Bloomington Race Riot, Bloomington, Indiana
    Bloomington, Indiana
    Bloomington is a city and the county seat of Monroe County in the southern region of the U.S. state of Indiana. According to the 2000 census, the city population was 69,291 with a 2007 estimate of 72,254....

  • 1903 - Motormen's Riot, Richmond, Virginia
    Richmond, Virginia
    Richmond is the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the United States. Like all Virginia municipalities incorporated as cities, it is an independent city and not part of any county. Richmond is the center of the Richmond Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Greater Richmond area...

  • 1906 - Atlanta Riots, Atlanta, Georgia
    Atlanta, Georgia
    Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the state of Georgia, as well as the urban core of one of the fastest-growing metropolitan areas in the United States....

  • 1907 - Bellingham riots
    Bellingham riots
    The Bellingham riots occurred on September 4, 1907, in Bellingham, Washington, USA. A group of 400-500 white men, predominantly members of the Asian Exclusion League, with intentions to exclude East Indian immigrants mostly Sikhs but wrongly labelled as "hindoos" from the work force of the local...

    , Bellingham, Washington
    Bellingham, Washington
    Bellingham is the largest city in, and the county seat of, Whatcom County in the U.S. state of Washington, and the twelfth largest city in the state. It is situated on Bellingham Bay, which is protected by Lummi Island, Portage Island, and the Lummi Peninsula, and opens onto the Strait of Georgia...

  • 1908 - Springfield Race Riot
    Springfield Race Riot of 1908
    The Springfield Race Riot of 1908 was a mass civil disturbance in Springfield, Illinois, USA sparked by the transfer of two African American prisoners out of the city jail by the county sheriff. This act enraged many white citizens, who responded by burning black-owned homes and businesses and...

    , Springfield, Illinois
    Springfield, Illinois
    Springfield is the capital of the U.S. state of Illinois and the county seat of Sangamon County with a population of 116,482 . Over 200,000 residents live in the Springfield Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Sangamon County and adjacent Menard County...

  • 1910 - Philadelphia general strike (1910)
    Philadelphia general strike (1910)
    The General Strike of 1910 was a labor strike by trolley workers of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company that grew to a city-wide riot and general strike in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...

    , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    Pennsylvania
    The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania , often colloquially referred to as PA by natives and Northeasterners, is a state located in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States...

  • 1912 - Lawrence textile strike
    Lawrence textile strike
    The Lawrence Textile Strike was a strike of immigrant workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1912 led by the Industrial Workers of the World. Prompted by one mill owner's decision to lower wages when a new law shortening the workweek went into effect in January, the strike spread rapidly through the...

    , Lawrence, Massachusetts
    Lawrence, Massachusetts
    Lawrence is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States on the Merrimack River. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 72,043. Surrounding communities include Methuen to the north, Andover to the southwest, and North Andover to the southeast. It and Salem are the county...

  • 1913 - Paterson silk strike
    Paterson Silk Strike of 1913
    The Paterson silk strike of 1913 was a strike of the silk mill workers in Paterson, New Jersey. Led by the Industrial Workers of the World , the strike began on February 1, 1913. The strikers demanded eight-hour work days and improved working conditions...

    , Paterson, New Jersey
    Paterson, New Jersey
    Paterson is a city in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the city population was 149,222. Census population projections indicate a population of 146,545 as of 2007, making it New Jersey's third largest city. It is the county seat of Passaic County...

  • 1914 - Ludlow massacre
    Ludlow massacre
    The Ludlow massacre refers to the violent deaths of 20 people, 11 of them children, during an attack by the Colorado National Guard on a tent colony of 1,200 striking coal miners and their families at Ludlow, Colorado on April 20, 1914. These deaths occurred after a day-long fight between strikers...

    , April 20, Ludlow, Colorado
    Ludlow, Colorado
    Ludlow is a ghost town in Las Animas County, Colorado, United States. It was famous as the site of the Ludlow Massacre in 1914. The town site is nestled at the entrance to a canyon in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. It is located along the western side of Interstate 25...

  • 1916 - Preparedness Day bombing
    Preparedness Day bombing
    The Preparedness Day Bombing was a bombing in San Francisco, California on July 22, 1916, when the city held a parade in honor of Preparedness Day, a celebration of the United States' imminent entry into World War I. During the parade a suitcase bomb was detonated, killing ten and wounding forty...

    , July 22, San Francisco, California
    San Francisco, California
    San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the 12th most populous city in the United States, with a 2008 estimated population of 808,976. It is the eighth most densely populated city in the U.S. and is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the larger San...

  • 1916 - Everett massacre
    Everett massacre
    The Everett Massacre was an armed confrontation between local authorities and members of the Industrial Workers of the World union, commonly called "Wobblies". It took place in Everett, Washington on Sunday, November 5 1916...

    , November 5, Everett, Washington
    Everett, Washington
    Everett is the county seat of and the largest city in Snohomish County, Washington, United States. Named for Everett Colby, son of founder Charles L. Colby, it lies north of Seattle. The city had a total population of 91,488 at the 2000 census, making it the 6th largest in the state and...

  • 1917 - East St. Louis Riot
    East St. Louis Riot
    The East St. Louis Riot was an outbreak of labor and racially motivated violence against blacks that caused an estimated 100 deaths and extensive property damage in the United States industrial city of East St. Louis, Illinois, located on the Mississippi River...

    , July 2, St. Louis, Missouri
    St. Louis, Missouri
    St. Louis is an independent city in the U.S. state of Missouri. With an estimated population of 354,361 in 2008, it is the principal municipality of Greater St. Louis, population 2,866,517, the largest urban area in Missouri and sixteenth largest in the United States...

     & East St. Louis, Illinois
    East St. Louis, Illinois
    East St. Louis is a city located in St. Clair County, Illinois, USA, directly across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, Missouri. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 31,542, less than half its peak in 1950...

  • 1917 - Springfield Vigilante Riot, Springfield, Missouri
    Springfield, Missouri
    Springfield is the third largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is the county seat of Greene County. On July 1, 2008, the estimated population was 156,206. The Springfield Metropolitan Area, population 426,144, is ranked 114th in the U.S., includes the counties of Christian, Dallas,...

  • 1917 - Houston Race riot, August 23, Houston, Texas
    Houston, Texas
    Houston is the fourth-largest city in the United States and the largest city within the state of Texas. As of the 2008 U.S. Census estimate, the city has a population of 2.2 million within an area of 600 square miles . Houston is the seat of Harris County and the economic center of...

  • 1919 - May Day Riots
    May Day Riots
    -United States:One of the following socialist riots that occurred in Cleveland, Ohio:*May Day Riots of 1894*May Day Riots of 1919-United Kingdom:*The 2000 disturbances in London associated with International Workers' Day ....

    , May 1, Cleveland, Ohio
    Cleveland, Ohio
    Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state. The municipality is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately 60 miles west of the Pennsylvania border...

  • 1919 - Red Summer
    Red Summer of 1919
    Red Summer, a term coined by author James Weldon Johnson, is used to describe the bloody race riots that occurred during the summer and autumn of 1919. Race riots erupted in several cities in both the North and South of the United States. The three with the highest number of fatalities happened...

    , USA
  • 1919 - Boston Police Strike
    Boston Police Strike
    The Boston Police Strike was a strike by the Boston police rank and file that began on September 9, 1919 after Police Commissioner Edwin Upton Curtis refused to allow the creation of a police union...

    , Boston, Massachusetts
  • 1919 - Pennsylvania Steel Strike, Pennsylvania
    Pennsylvania
    The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania , often colloquially referred to as PA by natives and Northeasterners, is a state located in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States...

  • 1919 - Charleston Race riot, May 10, Charleston, South Carolina
    Charleston, South Carolina
    Charleston is a city in Charleston County, South Carolina in the U.S. state of South Carolina. It is the largest city and county seat of Charleston County. The city was founded as Charlestown or Charles Towne, Carolina in 1670, and moved to its present location from a location on the west bank of...

  • 1919 - Washington, DC Riot 1919, July 19, Washington, D.C.
    Washington, D.C.
    Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790...

  • 1919 - Chicago Race Riot, July 27 – Aug.2, Chicago, Illinois
  • 1919 - Knoxville Race riot, August 30, Knoxville, Tennessee
    Knoxville, Tennessee
    Founded in 1786, Knoxville is the third-largest city in the U.S. state of Tennessee, behind Memphis and Nashville, and is the county seat of Knox County. It is also the largest city in East Tennessee. As of the 2000 United States Census, Knoxville had a total population of 173,890; the July 2007...

  • 1919 - Longview Race Riot, Longview, Texas
    Longview, Texas
    Longview is a city in Gregg and Harrison Counties in the U.S. state of Texas. The population was 73,344 at the 2000 census, but a 2006 estimate placed the city's population at 77,793. Most of the city is located in Gregg County, of which it is the county seat; only a small part extends into the...

  • 1919 - Omaha Race riot
    Omaha Race Riot of 1919
    The Omaha Race Riot occurred in Omaha, Nebraska, on 28-September 29, 1919. The race riot resulted in the brutal lynching of Will Brown, a black worker; the death of two white men; the attempted hanging of the mayor Edward Parsons Smith; and a public rampage by thousands of whites who set fire to...

    , September 28, Omaha, Nebraska
    Omaha, Nebraska
    Omaha is the largest city in the state of Nebraska, United States, and is the county seat of Douglas County. It is located in the Midwestern United States on the Missouri River, about 20 miles north of the mouth of the Platte River...

  • 1919 - Elaine Race Riot
    Elaine Race Riot
    The Elaine Race Riot, also called the Elaine Massacre, occurred September 30, 1919 in the town of Elaine in Phillips County, Arkansas, in the Mississippi Delta, where sharecropping by African American farmers was prevalent on plantations of white landowners.Approximately 100 African Americans...

    , October 1, Elaine, Arkansas
    Elaine, Arkansas
    Elaine is a city in Phillips County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 865 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Elaine is located at ....

  • 1919 - Centralia Massacre
    Centralia Massacre (Washington)
    The Centralia Massacre was a violent and bloody incident that occurred in the town of Centralia, Washington on November 11, 1919 during a parade celebrating the first anniversary of Armistice Day...

    , November 11, Centralia, Washington
    Centralia, Washington
    Centralia is a city in Lewis County, Washington, United States. The population was 14,742 at the 2000 census.-History:In pioneer days, Centralia was the halfway stopover point for stagecoaches operating between the Columbia River and Seattle. In 1850, J. G...

  • 1920 – Battle of Matewan
    Battle of Matewan
    The Battle of Matewan was a shootout in the coal company town of Matewan, West Virginia in Mingo County on May 19, 1920....

    , May 20, 1920, Matewan, West Virginia
    Matewan, West Virginia
    Matewan is a town in Mingo County, West Virginia, USA at the confluence of the Tug Fork River and Mate Creek. The population was 498 at the 2000 census...

  • 1921 - Tulsa Race Riot
    Tulsa Race Riot
    The Tulsa race riot, also known as the 1921 race riot, the night that Tulsa died, the Tulsa Race War, or the Greenwood riot, was a massacre during a large-scale civil disorder confined mainly to the racially segregated Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA on May 31, 1921...

    , May 31 – June 1, Tulsa, Oklahoma
    Tulsa, Oklahoma
    Tulsa is the second-largest city in the state of Oklahoma and 45th-largest in the United States. With an estimated population of 385,635 in 2008, it is the principal municipality of the Tulsa Metropolitan Statistical Area, a region of 916,079 residents projected to reach one million between 2010...

  • 1921 - Battle of Blair Mountain
    Battle of Blair Mountain
    The Battle of Blair Mountain was the largest organized armed uprising in American labor history and led almost directly to the labor laws currently in effect in the United States of America...

    , WV Coal Mine Wars, August - September 1921, Logan County, West Virginia
    Logan County, West Virginia
    Logan County is a county located in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of 2000, the population was 37,710. Its county seat is Logan.Logan County was formed in 1824 from parts of Giles, Tazewell, Cabell, and Kanawha counties. It is named for Chief Logan, famous Native American chief of the Mingo...

  • 1922 - Herrin Mine Massacre, Herrin, Illinois
    Herrin, Illinois
    Herrin is a city in Williamson County, Illinois, United States. The population was 11,835 at the 2006 census. It is home to Country Musicstar David Lee Murphy. It was also the hometown of baseball's legendary Cleveland shortstop Ray Chapman...

  • 1923 - Rosewood Massacre, January 1–7, Rosewood, Florida
    Rosewood, Florida
    The Rosewood massacre was a violent, racially motivated conflict that took place during the first week of January 1923 in rural Levy County, Florida, United States. At least six blacks and two whites were killed, and the town of Rosewood was abandoned and destroyed during what was characterized as...

  • 1929 - North Carolina Textile Strike, North Carolina
    North Carolina
    North Carolina is a state located on the Atlantic Seaboard in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties...

  • 1927 - Columbine Mine Massacre
    Columbine Mine massacre
    The first Columbine Massacre, sometimes called the Columbine Mine massacre to distinguish it from the Columbine High School massacre, occurred in 1927, in the town of Serene, Colorado. A fight broke out between state police and a group of striking coal miners, during which the coal miners were...

    , November 21, Serene, Colorado
    Serene, Colorado
    Serene, Colorado no longer exists. Serene was once a company town owned by the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company.Serene had company housing, a post office, a tipple, and was the site of the Columbine Mine.- History :...

  • 1931 – Battle of Evarts
    Battle of Evarts
    The Battle of Evarts is the name given to a mining strike and ensuing violence that occurred in Harlan County, Kentucky in 1931. In February 1931, The Harlan County Coal company cut wages for their employees. The United Mine Workers union responded by holding a rally in Pineville, drawing over...

    , May 5, Harlan County, Kentucky
    Harlan County, Kentucky
    Harlan County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. It was formed in 1819. As of 2000, the population was 33,202. Its county seat is Harlan...

  • 1931 - Chicago Rent Strike Riot, August 3, Chicago, Illinois
  • 1931 - Hawaii Riot, Hawaii
    Hawaii
    Hawaii is the newest of the 50 U.S. states, and is the only state made up entirely of islands. It is located on an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean, southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of Australia. The state was admitted to the Union on August...

  • 1932 - Bonus Army
    Bonus Army
    The self-named Bonus Expeditionary Force was an assemblage of some 43,000 marchers — 17,000 World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups, who protested in Washington, D.C., in spring and summer of 1932. Called the Bonus March by the news media, the Bonus Marchers were more popularly...

     March, Spring/Summer 1932, Washington, D.C.
    Washington, D.C.
    Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790...

  • 1932 - Ford Hunger March, March 7, unemployed workers march on Ford Motors River Rouge plant
  • 1934 - U.S. Nazi Riot, New York City, New York
  • 1934 - Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934
    Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934
    The Minneapolis General Strike of 1934 grew out of a strike by Teamsters against most of the trucking companies operating in Minneapolis, a major distribution center for the Upper Midwest. The strike began on May 16, 1934 in the Market District and ensuing violence lasted periodically throughout...

    , Minneapolis, Minnesota
    Minneapolis, Minnesota
    Minneapolis is the largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota and is the county seat of Hennepin County. The city lies on both banks of the Mississippi River, just north of the river's confluence with the Minnesota River, and adjoins Saint Paul, the state's capital. Known as the Twin Cities,...

  • 1934 - Auto-Lite strike
    Auto-Lite strike
    The Toledo Auto-Lite strike was a strike by a federal labor union of the American Federation of Labor against the Electric Auto-Lite company of Toledo, Ohio, from April 12 to June 3, 1934....

    , April 4 – June 3, the "Battle of Toledo" riot, Toledo, Ohio
    Toledo, Ohio
    Toledo is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio within the Great Lakes Region and the county seat of Lucas County. Named after Toledo, Spain, it is located on the western end of Lake Erie, on the Michigan border. It is the principal city in the Toledo Metropolitan Statistical Area. In the 2000 census,...

  • 1934 - 1934 West Coast Longshore Strike
    1934 West Coast Longshore Strike
    The 1934 West Coast Waterfront Strike lasted eighty-three days, triggered by sailors and a four-day general strike in San Francisco, and led to the unionization of all of the West Coast ports of the United States...

    , May 9 – October 12, San Francisco Bay Area
    San Francisco Bay Area
    The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, or the Yay Area, is a metropolitan region that surrounds the San Francisco and San Pablo estuaries in Northern California. The region encompasses large cities such as San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose, along with smaller urban and...

    , California
    California
    California is the most populous state in the United States, and the third largest by area. California is the second most populous sub-national entity in the Americas, behind only São Paulo, Brazil...

    ; Portland, Oregon
    Portland, Oregon
    Portland is a city located in the Northwestern United States, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the state of Oregon. As of July 2008, it has an estimated population of 575,930, making it the 29th most populous in the United States. It has been referred to as the most...

    ; Seattle, Washington
    Seattle, Washington
    Seattle is located in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Situated in the western part of Washington State on an isthmus between Puget Sound and Lake Washington, about south of the Canada – United States border, it is named after Chief Sealth, of the Duwamish and Suquamish tribes...

  • 1934 - Textile workers strike (1934)
    Textile workers strike (1934)
    The textile workers' strike of 1934 was the largest strike in United States history at the time, involving 400,000 textile workers from New England, the Mid-Atlantic states and the U.S. Southern states, lasting twenty-two days...

  • 1935 - Harlem Riot
    Harlem Riot of 1935
    The Harlem Riot of 1935 was Harlem's first race riot, sparked off by rumors of the beating of a teenage shoplifter. Three died, hundreds were wounded and an estimated $2 million in damages were sustained to properties throughout the district, with African-American owned homes and businesses spared...

    , March 19–20, New York City, New York
  • 1935 - Southern Tenant Farmers' Union Riot, Arkansas
    Arkansas
    Arkansas is a state located in the southern region of the United States. Its name is an Algonquin name of the Quapaw Indians. Arkansas shares a border with six states, with its eastern border largely defined by the Mississippi River. Its diverse geography ranges from the mountainous regions of the...

  • 1937 - Republic Steel Strike
    Memorial Day massacre of 1937
    In the Memorial Day massacre of 1937, police shot and killed ten demonstrators in Chicago, on May 30, 1937. The incident took place during the "Little Steel Strike" in the United States....

    , May 30, Chicago, Illinois
  • 1942 - Sojourner Truth Homes Riot, February 28, Detroit, Michigan
    Detroit, Michigan
    Detroit is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the seat of Wayne County. Detroit is a major port city on the Detroit River, in the Midwest region of the United States. Located north of Windsor, Ontario, Detroit is the only major U.S. city that looks south to Canada. It was founded...

  • 1943 – Beaumont Race Riot of 1943
    Beaumont Race Riot of 1943
    The 1943 race riots in Beaumont, Texas, were a series of racially targeted violence during the summer months of 1943. In 1942, a worsening of socioeconomic conditions nationally aggravated interracial tensions. Racial animosity and friction during the Jim Crow era were not unusual, but wartime...

    , Summer, Beaumont, Texas
    Beaumont, Texas
    Beaumont is a city in and county seat of Jefferson County, Texas, United States, within the Beaumont–Port Arthur Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city's population was 113,866 at the 2000 census. With Port Arthur and Orange, it forms the Golden Triangle, a major industrial area on the Gulf...

  • 1943 - Zoot Suit Riots
    Zoot Suit Riots
    The Zoot Suit Riots were a series of riots that erupted in Los Angeles, California during World War II, between white sailors and Marines stationed throughout the city and Latino youths, who were recognizable by the zoot suits they favored. While Mexican Americans were the primary targets of...

    , July 3, Los Angeles, California
    Los Angeles, California
    Los Angeles is the largest city in the state of California and the second largest in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California...

     (anti-Hispanic and anti-zoot suit)
  • 1943 - Detroit Race Riot, June 20–21, Detroit, Michigan
    Detroit, Michigan
    Detroit is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the seat of Wayne County. Detroit is a major port city on the Detroit River, in the Midwest region of the United States. Located north of Windsor, Ontario, Detroit is the only major U.S. city that looks south to Canada. It was founded...

  • 1946 - Columbia, Tennessee Riot, February 25–26, Columbia, Tennessee
    Columbia, Tennessee
    Columbia is a city in Maury County, Tennessee, United States. The 2008 population was 34,402 according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates. It is the county seat of Maury County....

  • 1946 - Airport Homes Race Riots, Chicago, Illinois
  • 1949 - Peekskill Riot, Peekskill, New York
    Peekskill, New York
    Peekskill is a city in Westchester County, New York. It is situated on a bay along the east side of the Hudson River, across from Jones Point.This community was known to be an early American industrial center, primarily for its iron plow and stove products...

  • 1951 - Cicero Riot, July 12, Cicero, Illinois
    Cicero, Illinois
    Cicero is an incorporated town in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 85,616 at the 2000 census. A 2003 Census estimate showed the population dipped to 83,029. Cicero is named for the town of Cicero, New York, which in turn was named for Marcus Tullius Cicero, the Roman...

  • 1958 - Battle of Hayes Pond
    Battle of Hayes Pond
    The Battle of Hayes Pond refers to an armed confrontation between the Ku Klux Klan and Lumbee Native Americans near Maxton, North Carolina on the night of January 18, 1958.-Events leading up to the confrontation:...

    , January 18, Maxton, North Carolina
    Maxton, North Carolina
    Maxton is a town in Robeson County and Scotland County Counties, North Carolina, in the United States. The population was 2,551 at the time of the 2000 U.S...


1960s

  • 1960 - HUAC riot, May 13, Students protest House Un-American Activities Committee
    House Un-American Activities Committee
    The House Committee on Un-American Activities was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives. In 1969, the House changed the committee's name to "House Committee on Internal Security"...

     hearings, 12 injured, 64 arrested, San Francisco, California
    San Francisco, California
    San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the 12th most populous city in the United States, with a 2008 estimated population of 808,976. It is the eighth most densely populated city in the U.S. and is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the larger San...

  • 1960 – El Cajon Boulevard Riot
    El Cajon Boulevard Riot
    The El Cajon Boulevard Riot was the official name of what the San Diego Union called the Drag Strip Riot. Socialists consider the El Cajon Boulevard Riot one of the first major youth riots of the 1960s.-About:...

    , August 20, San Diego, California
    San Diego, California
    San Diego , named after Saint Didacus , is the second-largest city in California and the ninth largest city in the United States, located along the Pacific Ocean on the west coast of the United States. The US Census Bureau estimates the city's population at 1,279,329 as of 2008...

  • 1960 - Jacksonville riot 1960, August 27, Jacksonville, Florida
    Jacksonville, Florida
    Jacksonville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Florida, and is the county seat of Duval County. Since 1968, as a result of the consolidation of the city and county government, and a corresponding expansion of the city limits to include almost the entire county, Jacksonville became the...

  • 1962 - Ole Miss riot 1962, September 3 - October 1, The University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi
    Oxford, Mississippi
    Oxford is a city and the county seat of Lafayette County, Mississippi, United States. Founded in 1835, it was named after the British university city of Oxford in hopes of having the state university located there, which it did successfully attract....

  • 1963 - Cambridge riot 1963
    Cambridge riot 1963
    The Cambridge riot of 1963, occurred on June 14, 1963 in Cambridge, Maryland, a small town on the Eastern Shore. -Background:In 1960 one-third of Cambridge residents were African American, all of whom lived in the 2nd Ward which has been represented for six decades by the only Black on the...

    , June 14, Cambridge, Maryland
    Cambridge, Maryland
    Cambridge is a city in Dorchester County, Maryland, United States. The population was 10,911 at the 2000 census and 11,752 according to current July 2008 census estimates. It is the county seat of Dorchester County and the county's largest municipality. Cambridge is the fourth most populous city in...

  • 1964 - Harlem Riot
    Harlem Riot
    The Harlem Riot of 1964 was a racial confrontation between residents in several city boroughs and the New York Police after an African American teenager had been shot dead by an off-duty police officer....

    , July, 18–23, New York City, New York
  • 1964 - Rochester 1964 race riot
    Rochester 1964 race riot
    In the early evening of Friday, July 24, 1964, in Rochester, NY, the Rochester Police Department attempted to arrest a 19 year-old intoxicated black male at a street block party and dance. A member of the group "Mothers Improvement Association of the Eighth Ward" concerned with the male's behavior...

    , July 24–25, Rochester, New York
    Rochester, New York
    Rochester is a city in Monroe County, New York, south of Lake Ontario in the United States. The Rochester metropolitan area is the second largest economy in New York State, behind the New York City metropolitan area. Known as The World's Image Centre, it was also once known as The Flour City, and...

  • 1964 - Jersey City 1964 race riot, August 2–4, Jersey City, New Jersey
    Jersey City, New Jersey
    Jersey City is a city in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the population of Jersey City was 240,055, making it New Jersey's second-largest city, behind Newark. As of the Census Bureau's 2007 estimate, the population had grown to 242,389...

  • 1964 - Paterson 1964 race riot, August 11–13, Paterson, New Jersey
    Paterson, New Jersey
    Paterson is a city in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the city population was 149,222. Census population projections indicate a population of 146,545 as of 2007, making it New Jersey's third largest city. It is the county seat of Passaic County...

  • 1964 - Elizabeth 1964 race riot, August 11–13, Elizabeth, New Jersey
    Elizabeth, New Jersey
    Elizabeth is a city in Union County, New Jersey, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 120,568, making it New Jersey's fourth largest city . The population of Elizabeth was 126,179 as of the Census Bureau's 2006 estimate...

  • 1964 - Chicago 1964 race riot, Dixmoor riot, August 16–17, Chicago, Illinois
  • 1964 - Philadelphia 1964 race riot
    Philadelphia 1964 race riot
    The Philadelphia race riot took place in the predominantly black neighborhoods of North Philadelphia from August 28 to August 30, 1964. Tensions between black residents of the city and police had been escalating for several months over several well-publicized allegations of police brutality.This...

    , August 28–30,
  • 1965 - Watts Riot, August 1965, Los Angeles, California
    Los Angeles, California
    Los Angeles is the largest city in the state of California and the second largest in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California...

  • 1966 - Sunset Strip curfew riots
    Sunset Strip curfew riots
    The Sunset Strip curfew riots, also known as the "hippie riots," were a series of clashes that took place between police and young people on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood, California, beginning in the mid-1960s and continuing through the early 1970s....

    , Summer, basis for the song For What It's Worth (Buffalo Springfield song), Los Angeles, California
    Los Angeles, California
    Los Angeles is the largest city in the state of California and the second largest in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California...

  • 1966 - Division Street Riots
    Division Street Riots
    The Division Street Riots were episodes of rioting and civil unrest in Chicago which occurred between June 12 and June 14, 1966.-History and cause:...

    , June 12–14, Humboldt Park, Chicago
    Humboldt Park, Chicago
    Humboldt Park located on the northwest side of Chicago, Illinois, is one of 77 officially designated Chicago community areas. The name may be used to describe the area as a community or the actual 207 acre park itself...

    , Chicago, Illinois
  • 1966 - Omaha riot of 1966, July 2, Omaha, Nebraska
    Omaha, Nebraska
    Omaha is the largest city in the state of Nebraska, United States, and is the county seat of Douglas County. It is located in the Midwestern United States on the Missouri River, about 20 miles north of the mouth of the Platte River...

  • 1966 - Hunter's Point Riot, San Francisco, California
    San Francisco, California
    San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the 12th most populous city in the United States, with a 2008 estimated population of 808,976. It is the eighth most densely populated city in the U.S. and is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the larger San...

  • 1966 - Hough Riots
    Hough Riots
    The Hough Riots were race riots in the predominantly African American community of Hough in Cleveland, Ohio that took place over a six-night period from July 18 to July 23, 1966. During the riots, four African Americans were killed and 30 people were critically injured. In addition, there were 275...

    , July 18–24, Cleveland, Ohio
    Cleveland, Ohio
    Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state. The municipality is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately 60 miles west of the Pennsylvania border...

  • 1966 - Waukegan Riot, August 27, Waukegan, Illinois
    Waukegan, Illinois
    Waukegan is a city in Lake County, Illinois. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 87,901. A 2003 census estimated the city population to be 91,452. It is the ninth-largest city in Illinois by population.-Geography:...

  • 1966 - Benton Harbor Riot
    Benton Harbor riots
    - 1966 :On August 30, 1966, due to a fatal shooting, residents rioted for six days. The riot was quelled after Governor George W. Romney dispatched troops from the Michigan National Guard.- 2003 :...

    , August - Sept., Benton Harbor, Michigan
    Benton Harbor, Michigan
    Benton Harbor is a city in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan southwest from Kalamazoo. The population was 11,182 at the 2000 census. It is the lesser populated of the two principal cities included in the Niles-Benton Harbor, Michigan Metropolitan Statistical Area...

  • 1966 - Atlanta riot of 1966, September 6, Atlanta, Georgia
    Atlanta, Georgia
    Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the state of Georgia, as well as the urban core of one of the fastest-growing metropolitan areas in the United States....

  • 1967 - Roxbury riot, June 2, Boston, Massachusetts
  • 1967 - Tampa Riots
    Tampa Riots
    -Tampa Riots of 1967:On June 11, 1967, 19 year old Martin Chambers was suspected of robbing a camera store. Chambers ran from police near Nebraska and Harrison Streets and was shot in the back and died. Several days of riots around Central Avenue followed....

    , June 11, Tampa, Florida
    Tampa, Florida
    Tampa is a Gulf Coast city in Hillsborough County, on the west coast of the state of Florida in the United States. It serves as the county seat for Hillsborough County. The population of Tampa in 2000 was 303,447...

  • 1967 - Buffalo riot of 1967, June 27, Buffalo, New York
    Buffalo, New York
    Buffalo is the second most populous city in the state of New York, second only to New York City. Located in Western New York on the eastern shores of Lake Erie and at the head of the Niagara River, Buffalo is the principal city of the Buffalo-Niagara Falls metropolitan area and the seat of Erie...

  • 1967 - 1967 Newark riots
    1967 Newark riots
    The 1967 Newark riots were a major civil disturbance that occurred in the city of Newark, New Jersey between July 12 and July 17, 1967. The six days of rioting, looting, and destruction left 26 dead and hundreds injured.-Social unrest:...

    , July 12–17 1967, Newark, New Jersey
    Newark, New Jersey
    Brick City redirects here. For the township in Ocean County, see Brick Township, New Jersey.Newark is the largest city in New Jersey, and the county seat of Essex County. Newark has a population of 281,402, making it the largest municipality in New Jersey and the 65th largest city in the U.S...

  • 1967 - 1967 Plainfield riots
    1967 Plainfield riots
    The Plainfield Riots were a series of racially-charged violent disturbances that occurred in Plainfield, New Jersey during the summer of 1967, which mirrored the in nearby Newark, New Jersey....

    , July 14–21 1967, Plainfield, New Jersey
    Plainfield, New Jersey
    Plainfield is a city in Union County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the city population was 47,829.Plainfield was originally formed as a township on April 5, 1847, from portions of Westfield Township, while the area was still part of Essex County. On March 19,...

  • 1967 - Cairo riot, July 17, Cairo, Illinois
    Cairo, Illinois
    Cairo is a city in Alexander County, Illinois in the United States. The population was 3,632 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Alexander County. The city's name is pronounced "Care-o"....

  • 1967 - Durham riot, July 19, Durham, North Carolina
    Durham, North Carolina
    Not to be confused with the U.K. city Durham.Durham is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is the county seat of Durham County and also extends into Wake county. It is the fifth largest city in the state by population, with 223,284 residents as of July 1, 2008. Durham County as of July...

  • 1967 - Memphis riot, July 20, Memphis, Tennessee
    Memphis, Tennessee
    Memphis is a city in the southwest corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County. Memphis rises above the Mississippi River on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff just south of the mouth of the Wolf River....

  • 1967 - Cambridge riot of 1967, July 24, a.k.a. the H. Rap Brown riot, Cambridge, Maryland
    Cambridge, Maryland
    Cambridge is a city in Dorchester County, Maryland, United States. The population was 10,911 at the 2000 census and 11,752 according to current July 2008 census estimates. It is the county seat of Dorchester County and the county's largest municipality. Cambridge is the fourth most populous city in...

  • 1967 - 1967 Detroit riot, July 23–29, Detroit, Michigan
    Detroit, Michigan
    Detroit is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the seat of Wayne County. Detroit is a major port city on the Detroit River, in the Midwest region of the United States. Located north of Windsor, Ontario, Detroit is the only major U.S. city that looks south to Canada. It was founded...

  • 1967 - Milwaukee riot, July 30, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin
    Milwaukee is the largest city in Wisconsin and 23rd largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Milwaukee County and is located on the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan. Its estimated 2008 population was 604,477. Milwaukee is the main cultural and economic center of the...

  • 1967 - Minneapolis North Side Riots, August, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota
    Minnesota
    Minnesota is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. The twelfth largest state by area in the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.2 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the...

  • 1967 - Dow riot, October 18, University of Wisconsin–Madison
    University of Wisconsin–Madison
    The University of Wisconsin–Madison is a public research university located in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. Founded in 1848, UW–Madison is the flagship campus of the University of Wisconsin System. It became a land-grant institution in 1866...

    , Madison, Wisconsin
    Madison, Wisconsin
    Madison is the capital of the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the county seat of Dane County. It is also home to the University of Wisconsin–Madison....

  • 1968 - Orangeburg Massacre
    Orangeburg massacre
    The Orangeburg massacre was an incident on February 8, 1968 in which local policemen in Orangeburg, South Carolina fired into a crowd of young people who were protesting local segregation at a bowling alley. They killed three and injured twenty-eight, hitting most of them in their backs...

    , S.C. State Univ., February 8, Orangeburg, South Carolina
    Orangeburg, South Carolina
    Orangeburg, also known as "The Garden City," is the principal city and county seat of Orangeburg County, South Carolina, United States. The city population was 12,765 at the 2000 census , within a Greater Orangeburg population of approximately 45,000...

  • 1968 - Memphis riot, March 28, Memphis, Tennessee
    Memphis, Tennessee
    Memphis is a city in the southwest corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County. Memphis rises above the Mississippi River on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff just south of the mouth of the Wolf River....

  • 1968 - Wilmington Riot of 1968, April 1968, Longest military occupation since Civil War, Wilmington, Delaware
    Wilmington, Delaware
    Wilmington is the largest city in the state of Delaware, United States and is located at the confluence of the Christina River and Brandywine Creek, near where the Christina flows into the Delaware River. It is the county seat of New Castle County and one of the major cities in the Delaware Valley...

  • 1968 - 1968 Washington, D.C. riots
    1968 Washington, D.C. riots
    The Washington, D.C. riots of April 4–8, 1968 erupted with the April 4, 1968 assassination of Civil Rights Movement leader Martin Luther King, Jr. Civil unrest affected at least 110 U.S...

    , April 4–8, Washington, D.C.
    Washington, D.C.
    Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790...

  • 1968 - Baltimore riot of 1968
    Baltimore riot of 1968
    The Baltimore Riot of 1968 began two days after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4 1968. Rioting broke out in 125 cities across the United States, and spread to the city of Baltimore, Maryland on Saturday, April 6. The Governor of Maryland, Spiro T...

    , April 6–12, Baltimore, MD
  • 1968 - 1968 Chicago riots
    1968 Chicago riots
    After the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 4, 1968, violence erupted in the black ghetto on Chicago's west side, eventually consuming a 28-block stretch of West Madison Street. Looting and arson took place primarily in the corridor between Roosevelt Road on the south and Chicago...

    , West Side Riots, April 7–14, Chicago, Illinois
  • 1968 - 1968 Kansas City riot
    1968 Kansas City riot
    The 1968 Kansas City riot was a riot that occurred in Kansas City, Missouri in April 1968. Kansas City became one of thirty-seven cities in the United States to be the subject of rioting after the assassination Martin Luther King, Jr....

    , April 9, Kansas City, Missouri
    Kansas City, Missouri
    Kansas City is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri. It encompasses in parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties. It is one of two county seats of Jackson County, the other being Independence, just to the city's east...

  • 1968 - Columbia University protests of 1968
    Columbia University protests of 1968
    The Columbia University protests of 1968 were among the many student demonstrations that occurred around the world in that year. The Columbia protests erupted over the spring of that year after students discovered links between the university and the institutional apparatus supporting the United...

    , April 23, New York City, New York
  • 1968 - Salisbury riot, May 18–20, Salisbury, Maryland
    Salisbury, Maryland
    Salisbury is a city in southeastern Maryland, United States. It is the county seat of Wicomico County, Maryland and the largest city in Maryland's Eastern Shore region. The city's population was 23,743 at the 2000 census...

  • 1968 - Louisville riots of 1968
    Louisville riots of 1968
    The Louisville riots of 1968 refers to riots in Louisville, Kentucky in May 1968. As in many other cities around the country, there were unrest and riots partially in response to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. On May 27, 1968, a group of 400 people, mostly blacks, gathered at...

    , May 27, Louisville, Kentucky
    Louisville, Kentucky
    Louisville is Kentucky's largest city and county seat of Jefferson County. Since 2003, the city's borders have been coterminous with those of the county because of a city-county merger. The city's estimated population as of 2008 was 713,877 , with a population of 1,244,696 in the Louisville...

  • 1968 - Glenville Shootout
    Glenville Shootout
    The Glenville Shootout was a series of events of violent acts that occurred in the Glenville section of Cleveland, Ohio, United States, from the dates of July 23—July 28, 1968...

    , July 23–28, Cleveland, Ohio
    Cleveland, Ohio
    Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state. The municipality is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately 60 miles west of the Pennsylvania border...

  • 1968 - Liberty City riot, August 7–13, Miami, Florida
    Miami, Florida
    Miami is a major coastal city in southeastern Florida, in the United States. Miami is the county seat of Miami-Dade County, the most populous county in Florida. With an estimated population of 424,662 in 2007, Miami is the largest city within the Miami metropolitan area, which is the...

  • 1968 - 1968 Democratic National Convention protests
    1968 Democratic National Convention protests
    The 1968 Democratic National Convention had a significant amount of protest activity. In 1967, protest groups had been promising to come to Chicago and disrupt the convention, and the city promised to maintain law and order. For eight days, protesters and police battled for control of the streets...

     riot, August 1968, Chicago, Illinois
  • 1969 - Zip to Zap
    Zip to Zap
    The Zip to Zap riot of May 9–11, 1969 in Zap, North Dakota, was originally intended as a spring break diversion. As a result of an article that originally appeared in the North Dakota State University's The Spectrum newspaper, and was later picked up by the AP, between 2000 and 3000 people...

     riot, May 9–11, Zap, North Dakota
    North Dakota
    North Dakota is a state located in the Midwestern region of the United States of America; on the Canadian border halfway between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. North Dakota is the 19th largest state by area in the U.S.; it is the 3rd least populous, with just over 641,481 residents as...

  • 1969 - NC A&T Disorders, May 21, Greensboro, North Carolina
    Greensboro, North Carolina
    Greensboro is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is the third-largest city, by population, in North Carolina and the largest city in Guilford County and the surrounding Piedmont Triad metropolitan region. As of the 2000 census, Greensboro was home to 223,891 residents...

  • 1969 - Cairo disorders, May–June, Cairo, Illinois
    Cairo, Illinois
    Cairo is a city in Alexander County, Illinois in the United States. The population was 3,632 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Alexander County. The city's name is pronounced "Care-o"....

  • 1969 - Stonewall riots
    Stonewall riots
    The Stonewall riots were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City...

    , June 1969, New York City, New York
  • 1969 - San Diego Riot, July 13, San Diego, California
    San Diego, California
    San Diego , named after Saint Didacus , is the second-largest city in California and the ninth largest city in the United States, located along the Pacific Ocean on the west coast of the United States. The US Census Bureau estimates the city's population at 1,279,329 as of 2008...

  • 1969 - Youngstown Riot, July 15, Youngstown, Ohio
    Youngstown, Ohio
    Youngstown is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Mahoning County, whose urban area borders Trumbull County. The municipality is situated on the Mahoning River, approximately southeast of Cleveland and northwest of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania...

  • 1969 - S.E. Melee, July 21, S.E. DC, Washington, DC
  • 1969 - Sacramento Disorder, July 17, Shootout between BPP & police, Sacramento, California
    Sacramento, California
    Sacramento is the capital of the U.S. state of California, and the county seat of Sacramento County. Located along the Sacramento River and just south of the American River's confluence in California's expansive Central Valley. With a 2007 estimated population of 460,242, it is the seventh-largest...

  • 1969 - 1969 York Race Riot
    1969 York Race Riot
    1969 York Race Riot refers to a period of racial unrest in York, Pennsylvania in 1969, sparked by the murder of a black resident and culminating in the murder of Lillie Belle Allen, an out-of-town visitor....

    , July 1969, York, Pennsylvania
    York, Pennsylvania
    York, known as the White Rose City , is a city located in South Central Pennsylvania. The population was 40,862 at the 2000 census. York is the county seat of York County, and is located at...

  • 1969 - Passaic Disorder, August 3, Passaic, New Jersey
    Passaic, New Jersey
    Passaic is a city in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the city had a total population of 67,861. Located north of Newark on the Passaic River, it was first settled in 1678 by Dutch traders, as Acquackanonk Township...

  • 1969 - Hartford riot, September 2, Hartford, Conn.
  • 1969 - Ft. Lauderdale Riot, September 2, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
  • 1969 - Las Vegas Riot, October 6, Las Vegas, Nevada
    Las Vegas, Nevada
    Las Vegas is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada, the seat of Clark County, and an internationally renowned major resort city for gambling, shopping, fine dining, and entertainment. Las Vegas, which bills itself as The Entertainment Capital of the World, is famous for the number of...

  • 1969 - Days of Rage
    Days of Rage
    The Days of Rage riots were a series of events in October 1969 in Chicago organized by Weatherman faction of the Students for a Democratic Society...

    , October 8–11, Weathermen
    Weatherman (organization)
    Weatherman, known colloquially as the Weathermen and later the Weather Underground Organization , was an American radical left organization...

     riot in Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

1970s

  • 1970 - Student Strike of 1970
    Student Strike of 1970
    In the aftermath of the American Invasion of Cambodia on April 30 1970 and the killing of four students at Kent State University on May 4 1970 in Ohio and two at Jackson State College in Mississippi on May 14/15, more than 450 university, college and high school campuses across the country were...

    , May 1970, USA
  • 1970 - Lawrence Disorders, University of Kansas
    University of Kansas
    The University of Kansas , the State of Kansas Flagship university , is a public research university with campuses located in Lawrence, Kansas City, and Overland Park, Kansas with the main campus being located atop Mount Oread in Lawrence...

    , April, Lawrence, Kansas
    Lawrence, Kansas
    Lawrence is the 6th largest city in the U.S. State of Kansas and the county seat of Douglas County. Located in northeastern Kansas, Lawrence is the anchor city of the Lawrence, Kansas Metropolitan Area which encompasses all of Douglas County...

  • 1970 - Student Rebellion UMCP, I, University of Maryland
    University of Maryland, College Park
    The University of Maryland, College Park is a public research university located in the city of College Park in Prince George's County, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C. Founded in 1856, the University of Maryland is the flagship institution of the University System of Maryland...

    , May 1970, College Park, Maryland
    College Park, Maryland
    College Park is a city in Prince George's County, Maryland, USA. The population was 24,657 at the 2000 census. It is best known as the home of the University of Maryland, College Park, and since 1994 the city has also been home to the "Archives II" facility of the U.S...

  • 1970 - Kent State Riots/Shootings
    Kent State shootings
    The Kent State shootings, also known as the May 4 massacre or Kent-State massacre, occurred at Kent State University in the city of Kent, Ohio, and involved the shooting of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard on Monday, May 4, 1970...

    , May 1970, Kent, Ohio
    Kent, Ohio
    Kent is a city in Portage County, Ohio, United States. It is located along the Cuyahoga River in the northeastern part of Ohio and the western edge of Portage County...

  • 1970 - New Haven Green Disorders, Yale University
    Yale University
    Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States. Yale has produced many notable alumni, including five...

    , May 1970, New Haven, Connecticut
    New Haven, Connecticut
    New Haven is the second-largest municipality in Connecticut, after Bridgeport and just ahead of Hartford, with a core population of about 124,000 people. "New Haven" may also refer to the wider Greater New Haven area, which has nearly 600,000 inhabitants in the immediate area...

  • 1970 - Hard Hat riot
    Hard Hat riot
    The Hard Hat Riot occurred on May 8, 1970, near the intersection of Wall Street and Broad Street and at New York City Hall. The riot started about noon when about 200 construction workers mobilized by the New York State AFL-CIO attacked about 1,000 high school and college students and others...

    , Wall Street, May 8, New York City, New York
  • 1970 - Jackson State killings
    Jackson State killings
    The Jackson State killings occurred on Thursday/Friday May 14-15, 1970, at Jackson State College in Jackson, Mississippi. A group of student protesters were confronted by city and state police. The police opened fire, killing two students and injuring twelve...

    , May 14–15, Jackson, Mississippi
    Jackson, Mississippi
    Jackson is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Mississippi. It is one of two county seats of Hinds County , but the city also contains areas in Madison and Rankin Counties...

  • 1970 - Augusta Georgia Riot, May 1970, Augusta, Georgia
    Augusta, Georgia
    Augusta is a consolidated city in the U.S. state of Georgia. The City of Augusta and Richmond County governments merged operations in 1996; as of September 2008, the Augusta-Richmond county population was 192,851, not counting the unconsolidated cities of Hephzibah and Blythe.Augusta is the...

  • 1970 - Alexandria City disorders, May 29 – June 3, Alexandria, Virginia
    Alexandria, Virginia
    Alexandria is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 128,283. Located along the Western bank of the Potomac River, Alexandria is approximately 6 miles south of downtown Washington, D.C.Like the rest of northern Virginia, as...

  • 1970 - Russells Point disorder, July 5, Russells Point, Ohio
    Ohio
    Ohio is a Midwestern state of the United States. The thirty-fourth largest state by area in the U.S., it is the seventh-most populous with nearly 11.5 million residents...

  • 1970 - Yosemite Disturbance, July 5, Yosemite Nat. Park, Calif.
  • 1970 - Pasco disturbance,July 8, Pasco, Washington
    Pasco, Washington
    Pasco is a city in and the county seat of Franklin County, Washington, United States.Pasco is one of three cities that make up the Tri-Cities region of the state of Washington. The Tri-Cities is a mid-sized metropolitan area of approximately 230,000 people that also includes the cities of...

  • 1970 - Asbury Park Riot, July 9, Asbury Park, New Jersey
    Asbury Park, New Jersey
    Asbury Park or sometimes called just "Asbury" is a city in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States, on the Jersey Shore and part of the New York City Metropolitan Area. As of the 2000 United States Census, the city population was 17,930....

  • 1970 - Michigan City riot, July 10, Michigan City, Indiana
    Michigan City, Indiana
    Michigan City is a city in LaPorte County, Indiana, USA. It is one of two principal cities of and is included in the Michigan City-La Porte, Indiana Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is included in the Chicago-Naperville-Michigan City Combined Statistical Area.It is also part of an area known...

  • 1970 - Highland Park disorder, July 11, Highland Park, Michigan
    Highland Park, Michigan
    Highland Park is a city in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 16,746 at the 2000 census. The city is completely surrounded by Detroit except a small portion that touches the city of Hamtramck, which is also surrounded by Detroit....

  • 1970 - Hartford Riot, July 28, Hartford, Connecticut
    Hartford, Connecticut
    Hartford is the capital city of the U.S. state of Connecticut. It is located in Hartford County on the Connecticut River, north of the center of the state, south of Springfield, Massachusetts. Its 2006 population of 124,512 ranks Hartford as the state's second-largest city, after Bridgeport. New...

  • 1970 - New Bedford Riots, July, New Bedford
    New Bedford
    New Bedford is the name of various cities:*New Bedford, Illinois*New Bedford, Massachusetts, the most populous New Bedford**New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park*New Bedford, New Jersey *New Bedford, Ohio*New Bedford, Pennsylvania...

    , Mass.
  • 1970 - Sterling Hall bombing
    Sterling Hall bombing
    The Sterling Hall Bombing that occurred on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus on August 24 1970 was committed by four young people as a protest against the University's research connections with the US military during the Vietnam War...

    , Univ. of Wisc., August 24, Madison, Wisconsin
    Madison, Wisconsin
    Madison is the capital of the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the county seat of Dane County. It is also home to the University of Wisconsin–Madison....

  • 1970 - Chicano Moratorium
    Chicano Moratorium
    The Chicano Moratorium, formally known as the National Chicano Moratorium Committee, was a movement of Chicano anti-war activists that built a broad-based but fragile coalition of Mexican-American groups to organize opposition to the Vietnam War...

     Riot, August 29, Los Angeles, California
    Los Angeles, California
    Los Angeles is the largest city in the state of California and the second largest in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California...

  • 1970 - 14th Street riot, September 21, Washington, D.C.
    Washington, D.C.
    Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790...

  • 1970 - Georgetown Melee, October 4, 330 arrested, Washington, D.C.
    Washington, D.C.
    Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790...

  • 1970 - Henderson disorder, November 7, 350 Guardsmen sent in, Henderson, North Carolina
    Henderson, North Carolina
    Henderson, with a population of 16,095 at the 2000 census, is the county seat of Vance County, North Carolina, United States.The city was named in honor of former North Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice Leonard Henderson, who lived nearby and was a friend of early settler Lewis Reavis. ...

  • 1971 - Tampa disorder, January 13, Tampa, Florida
    Tampa, Florida
    Tampa is a Gulf Coast city in Hillsborough County, on the west coast of the state of Florida in the United States. It serves as the county seat for Hillsborough County. The population of Tampa in 2000 was 303,447...

  • 1971 - Wilmington Riot 1971, February 9, 2 killed, Wilmington, North Carolina
    Wilmington, North Carolina
    Wilmington is a city in and the county seat of New Hanover County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 75,838 at the 2000 Census. A July 1, 2008 United States Census Bureau estimate places the population at 100,192...

  • 1971 - May Day Protests 1971, May 3, Washington, D.C.
    Washington, D.C.
    Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790...

  • 1971 - Student Rebellion UMCP, II, University of Maryland
    University of Maryland, College Park
    The University of Maryland, College Park is a public research university located in the city of College Park in Prince George's County, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C. Founded in 1856, the University of Maryland is the flagship institution of the University System of Maryland...

    , May 1971, College Park, Maryland
    College Park, Maryland
    College Park is a city in Prince George's County, Maryland, USA. The population was 24,657 at the 2000 census. It is best known as the home of the University of Maryland, College Park, and since 1994 the city has also been home to the "Archives II" facility of the U.S...

  • 1971 - Camden Riots, August 1971, Camden, New Jersey
    Camden, New Jersey
    The City of Camden is the county seat of Camden County, New Jersey, in the United States. It is located across the Delaware River from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...

  • 1971 - Black Muslim Rally and Riot, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
    Baton Rouge, Louisiana
    Baton Rouge is the capital city and the second largest city of Louisiana It is located in East Baton Rouge Parish which contains 428,000 residents. The Greater Baton Rouge population is approximately 774,327...

  • 1971 - Fiesta de Santa Fe disorder, September 6, Santa Fe, New Mexico
    Santa Fe, New Mexico
    Santa Fe is the capital of the state of New Mexico. It is the fourth-largest city in the state and is the seat of . Santa Fe had a population of 62,203 at the April 1, 2000 census; the estimate for July 1, 2006, is 72,056...

  • 1971 - Attica Prison uprising
    Attica Prison riots
    The Attica Prison riot occurred at the Attica Correctional Facility in Attica, New York, United States in 1971. The riot was based in part upon prisoners' demands for better living conditions. At the time, inmates were given one shower per week and one roll of toilet paper per month...

    , (Attica, New York
    Attica (town), New York
    Attica is a town in Wyoming County, New York, United States. The population was 6,028 at the 2000 census .The town is named after a region in Greece....

    )
  • 1972 - Student Rebellion UMCP, III, University of Maryland
    University of Maryland, College Park
    The University of Maryland, College Park is a public research university located in the city of College Park in Prince George's County, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C. Founded in 1856, the University of Maryland is the flagship institution of the University System of Maryland...

    , May 1972, College Park, Maryland
    College Park, Maryland
    College Park is a city in Prince George's County, Maryland, USA. The population was 24,657 at the 2000 census. It is best known as the home of the University of Maryland, College Park, and since 1994 the city has also been home to the "Archives II" facility of the U.S...

  • 1972 - Southern University Disorders/Shootings, November 16, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
    Baton Rouge, Louisiana
    Baton Rouge is the capital city and the second largest city of Louisiana It is located in East Baton Rouge Parish which contains 428,000 residents. The Greater Baton Rouge population is approximately 774,327...

  • 1973 - Wounded Knee incident
    Wounded Knee Incident
    The Wounded Knee incident began February 27, 1973 when the town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota was seized by followers of the American Indian Movement...

    , February 27 – May 8, Wounded Knee, South Dakota
    Wounded Knee, South Dakota
    Wounded Knee is a census-designated place in Shannon County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 328 at the 2000 census....

  • 1974 - SLA Shootout, L.A., May 17, Los Angeles, California
    Los Angeles, California
    Los Angeles is the largest city in the state of California and the second largest in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California...

  • 1974 - Baltimore police strike
    Baltimore police strike
    The Baltimore police strike was a labor action taken by the police department of Baltimore, Maryland in July 1974. The city experienced a police strike along with other community employees that was one of the most effective municipal labor actions of its kind since the Boston Police Strike of 1919....

    , July, Baltimore, Maryland
    Baltimore, Maryland
    Baltimore is an independent city and the largest city in the state of Maryland. The city is located in central Maryland along the tidal portion of the Patapsco River, an arm of the Chesapeake Bay. Baltimore is sometimes referred to as Baltimore City in order to distinguish it from surrounding...

  • 1975 - Pine Ridge Shootout, June 26, Pine Ridge, South Dakota
    Pine Ridge, South Dakota
    Pine Ridge is a census-designated place in and the most populous community of Shannon County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 3,171 at the 2000 census....

  • 1975 - Livernois-Fenkell riot
    Livernois-Fenkell riot
    The Livernois-Fenkell Riot was a racially motivated disturbance, that almost escalated into a full blown racially-motivated riot. It occurred in the summer of 1975 on Livernois Avenue at Chalfonte Avenue, just south of Fenkell Avenue, in Detroit, Michigan. The violence emanated from a disturbance...

    , July 1975, Detroit, Michigan
    Detroit, Michigan
    Detroit is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the seat of Wayne County. Detroit is a major port city on the Detroit River, in the Midwest region of the United States. Located north of Windsor, Ontario, Detroit is the only major U.S. city that looks south to Canada. It was founded...

  • 1976 - Escambia High School riots, February 5, Pensacola, Florida
    Pensacola, Florida
    Pensacola is the westernmost city in the Florida Panhandle and the county seat of Escambia County. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 56,255 and as of 2007, the estimated population was 54,283....

  • 1977 - Chicago riot 1977, Humboldt Park riot, June 4–5, Chicago, Illinois
  • 1977 - New York City blackout of 1977
    New York City blackout of 1977
    The New York City Blackout of 1977 was an electricity blackout that affected most of New York City from July 13, 1977 to July 14, 1977. The only neighborhoods in New York City that were not affected were the Southern Queens neighborhoods of the Rockaways, which are part of the Long Island Lighting...

     disturbance, July 13–14, New York City, New York
  • 1979 - White Night Riots
    White Night Riots
    The White Night riots were a series of violent events sparked by an announcement of the lenient sentencing of Dan White, for the assassinations of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Harvey Milk, an openly gay San Francisco supervisor. The events took place on the night of May 21, 1979 in San...

    , May 1979, San Francisco, California
    San Francisco, California
    San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the 12th most populous city in the United States, with a 2008 estimated population of 808,976. It is the eighth most densely populated city in the U.S. and is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the larger San...

  • 1979 - Greensboro massacre
    Greensboro massacre
    The Greensboro massacre took place on November 3, 1979 in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States. Five marchers were shot and killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party while in a protest...

    , November 3, Greensboro, North Carolina
    Greensboro, North Carolina
    Greensboro is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is the third-largest city, by population, in North Carolina and the largest city in Guilford County and the surrounding Piedmont Triad metropolitan region. As of the 2000 census, Greensboro was home to 223,891 residents...


1980s

  • 1980 - New Mexico State Penitentiary Riot
    New Mexico State Penitentiary Riot
    The New Mexico Penitentiary Riot, which took place on February 2 and February 3 1980 in the state's maximum security prison south of Santa Fe, was one of the most violent prison riots in the history of the American correctional system: 33 inmates died and more than 200 inmates were treated for...

    , Santa Fe, New Mexico
    Santa Fe, New Mexico
    Santa Fe is the capital of the state of New Mexico. It is the fourth-largest city in the state and is the seat of . Santa Fe had a population of 62,203 at the April 1, 2000 census; the estimate for July 1, 2006, is 72,056...

  • 1980 - Chattanooga Riot of 1980, Chattanooga, Tennessee
    Chattanooga, Tennessee
    Chattanooga is the fourth-largest city in Tennessee , and the seat of Hamilton County. Located in southeastern Tennessee on Chickamauga Lake and Nickajack Lake, which are both part of the Tennessee River, Chattanooga lies approximately 120 miles to the northwest of Atlanta, Georgia, about 135...

  • 1980 - Miami Riot 1980, May 17–19, Miami, Florida
    Miami, Florida
    Miami is a major coastal city in southeastern Florida, in the United States. Miami is the county seat of Miami-Dade County, the most populous county in Florida. With an estimated population of 424,662 in 2007, Miami is the largest city within the Miami metropolitan area, which is the...

  • 1982 - Anti-Klan protest 1982, November 27, Washington, D.C.
    Washington, D.C.
    Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790...

  • 1982 - Miami Riot 1982, Overtown Riot, December 1982, Miami, Florida
    Miami, Florida
    Miami is a major coastal city in southeastern Florida, in the United States. Miami is the county seat of Miami-Dade County, the most populous county in Florida. With an estimated population of 424,662 in 2007, Miami is the largest city within the Miami metropolitan area, which is the...

  • 1984 - East Los Angeles Disturbances involved street gangs, repeatedly from April to August 1984, Los Angeles, California
    Los Angeles, California
    Los Angeles is the largest city in the state of California and the second largest in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California...

  • 1986 - Palm Springs Spring Break Riot, April 1986, Palm Springs, California
    Palm Springs, California
    Palm Springs is a desert city in Riverside County, California, approximately 111 miles east of Los Angeles and 136 miles northeast of San Diego. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 42,807. Golf, swimming, tennis, horseback riding and hiking in the nearby desert and mountain areas are...

  • 1987 - Tampa Riot 1987, February 1987, Tampa, Florida
    Tampa, Florida
    Tampa is a Gulf Coast city in Hillsborough County, on the west coast of the state of Florida in the United States. It serves as the county seat for Hillsborough County. The population of Tampa in 2000 was 303,447...

  • 1988 - Tompkins Square Park Police Riot, August 1988 (East Village
    East Village, Manhattan
    The East Village is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It lies east of Greenwich Village, south of Gramercy and Stuyvesant Town, and north of the Lower East Side...

    , Manhattan
    Manhattan
    Manhattan is one of the five boroughs of New York City, located primarily on Manhattan Island at the mouth of the Hudson River.New York County, which has the same boundaries as the Borough of Manhattan , is the most densely populated county in the United States, with a 2008 population of 1,634,795...

    , New York City
    New York City
    New York is the most populous city in the United States, and the center of the New York metropolitan area, which is among the most populous urban areas in the world. A leading global city, New York exerts a powerful influence over worldwide commerce, finance, culture, fashion and entertainment...

    )
  • 1989 - Miami Riot 1989, January 1989, Miami, Florida
    Miami, Florida
    Miami is a major coastal city in southeastern Florida, in the United States. Miami is the county seat of Miami-Dade County, the most populous county in Florida. With an estimated population of 424,662 in 2007, Miami is the largest city within the Miami metropolitan area, which is the...

  • 1989 - Tampa Riots
    Tampa Riots
    -Tampa Riots of 1967:On June 11, 1967, 19 year old Martin Chambers was suspected of robbing a camera store. Chambers ran from police near Nebraska and Harrison Streets and was shot in the back and died. Several days of riots around Central Avenue followed....

    , February 1989, Tampa, Florida
    Tampa, Florida
    Tampa is a Gulf Coast city in Hillsborough County, on the west coast of the state of Florida in the United States. It serves as the county seat for Hillsborough County. The population of Tampa in 2000 was 303,447...

  • 1989 - Virginia Beach Riot, July 1989, Virginia Beach, Virginia
    Virginia Beach, Virginia
    Virginia Beach is an independent city located in the South Hampton Roads area of Virginia, on the Atlantic Ocean at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay. Although Fairfax County is the most populous jurisdiction, Virginia Beach is the most populous city in Virginia and the 42nd largest city in the...

  • 1989 - Bensonhurst Riot, September 1989, Queens, New York

1990s

  • 1990 - Anti-Klan protest 1990, October 28, Washington, D.C.
    Washington, D.C.
    Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790...

  • 1991 - 1991 Washington, DC riot, Mount Pleasant riot, May 5–9, Washington, D.C.
    Washington, D.C.
    Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790...

  • 1991 - Crown Heights Riot
    Crown Heights Riot
    The Crown Heights Riot was a three-day riot that occurred in August 1991 in the Crown Heights neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The community was home to approximately 180,000 people – consisting of Caribbean-Americans and West Indians , African Americans , and Jewish residents...

    , August 1991, Brooklyn, New York
  • 1992 - L.A. riot
    1992 Los Angeles riots
    The Los Angeles Riots of 1992, also known as the 1992 Los Angeles Civil Unrest, were sparked on April 29, 1992 when a jury acquitted four Los Angeles Police Department officers accused in the videotaped beating of African-American motorist Rodney King following a high-speed pursuit. Thousands of...

    /Rodney King
    Rodney King
    Rodney Glen King is a Black American who, on March 3, 1991, was the victim of police brutality, committed by Los Angeles police officers. A bystander, George Holliday, videotaped much of the incident from a distance.The footage showed LAPD officers repeatedly striking King with their batons...

     riot, April–May 1992, Los Angeles, California
    Los Angeles, California
    Los Angeles is the largest city in the state of California and the second largest in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California...

  • 1992 - Sporadic urban violence in response to the L.A. Riots (San Diego, San Francisco, Oakland, Sacramento, San Bernardino Cal., Las Vegas Nev., Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Miami, New York City, Philadelphia, Phoenix, St. Louis, Washington DC, etc.) across African-American and Hispanic communities in the United States and in Toronto, Canada, May 1992.
  • 1996 - St. Petersburg, Florida Riot 1996
    St. Petersburg, Florida Riot 1996
    -Incident:At approximately 2:00 pm on Thursday, October 24, 1996, St. Petersburg Police Officer James Knight and his partner executed a traffic stop on a suspected stolen vehicle, which turned out not to be stolen. The driver of this vehicle, Tyron Lewis, an 18 year-old convicted drug offender,...

    , October 1996, St. Petersburg, Florida
    St. Petersburg, Florida
    St. Petersburg is a city in Pinellas County, Florida, United States. The city is known as a vacation destination for North American and European vacationers. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 248,232. As of 2006, the population estimate by the U.S. Census Bureau is 248,098. The 2007...

  • 1997 - The July 4th Immigration Demonstration Lockdown, July 1997, Los Angeles, California
    Los Angeles, California
    Los Angeles is the largest city in the state of California and the second largest in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California...

  • 1999 - WTO Meeting of 1999
    WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999 protest activity
    Protest activity surrounding the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999, which was to be the launch of a new millennial round of trade negotiations, occurred on November 30, 1999 , when the World Trade Organization convened at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center in Seattle, Washington,...

    , "The Battle in Seattle", November 1999, Seattle, Washington
    Seattle, Washington
    Seattle is located in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Situated in the western part of Washington State on an isthmus between Puget Sound and Lake Washington, about south of the Canada – United States border, it is named after Chief Sealth, of the Duwamish and Suquamish tribes...

  • 1999 - Michigan State University student riot
    Michigan State University student riot
    The Michigan State University student riot is an event that took place on and around the campus of Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan on the night of March 27, 1999...

    , April 1999, (East Lansing, Michigan
    East Lansing, Michigan
    East Lansing is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. The city is located directly east of Lansing, Michigan, the state's capital. Most of the city is within Ingham County, though a small portion lies in Clinton County. The population was 46,525 at the time of the 2000 census...

    )
  • 1999 - Woodstock '99 music festival riot, August 1999, (Rome, New York
    Rome, New York
    Rome is a city in Oneida County, New York, United States. The population was 34,950 at the 2000 census. It is in New York's 24th congressional district. During the Revolutionary War and for years thereafter, the city was originally known as just Fort Stanwix. Due to the fort being the only...

    )

2000

  • 2000 - Puerto Rican Day Parade
    Puerto Rican Day Parade
    The Puerto Rican Day Parade takes place annually along Fifth Avenue in New York City, on the second Sunday in June, in honor of the nearly 4 million Puerto Ricans and all people of Puerto Rican birth or heritage. In 2006, more than 80,000 participants marched and nearly 2 million spectators lined...

     Riot, June 11, Central Park, New York City, New York

21st century

  • 2001 - 2001 Cincinnati Riots
    2001 Cincinnati riots
    The 2001 Cincinnati riots were the largest urban disorder in the United States since the Los Angeles riots of 1992. The four days of rioting were a reaction to the fatal shooting in Cincinnati of Timothy Thomas, a 19-year-old black male, by Steven Roach, a police officer, during an on-foot pursuit...

    , April 10–12, Cincinnati, Ohio
    Cincinnati, Ohio
    Cincinnati is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County. The municipality is located north of the Ohio River at the Ohio-Kentucky border. The population within city limits was estimated to be 333,336 in 2008, making it the state's third largest city...

  • 2001 - Seattle Mardi Gras Riots
    Seattle Mardi Gras Riots
    On February 27, 2001, during Mardi Gras celebrations in the U.S. city of Seattle, Washington, rioting broke out in the Pioneer Square neighborhood. There were many random attacks on revelers over a period of about three and a half hours. There were reports of widespread brawling, vandalism, and...

    , February 27, Seattle, WA
  • 2002 - University of Minnesota Hockey Riots, April 6, Minneapolis, Minnesota
    Minneapolis, Minnesota
    Minneapolis is the largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota and is the county seat of Hennepin County. The city lies on both banks of the Mississippi River, just north of the river's confluence with the Minnesota River, and adjoins Saint Paul, the state's capital. Known as the Twin Cities,...

  • 2003 - University of Minnesota Hockey Riots (second straight year), April 12, Minneapolis, Minnesota
    Minneapolis, Minnesota
    Minneapolis is the largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota and is the county seat of Hennepin County. The city lies on both banks of the Mississippi River, just north of the river's confluence with the Minnesota River, and adjoins Saint Paul, the state's capital. Known as the Twin Cities,...

  • 2003 - Benton Harbor Riot, June 2003, Benton Harbor, Michigan
    Benton Harbor, Michigan
    Benton Harbor is a city in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan southwest from Kalamazoo. The population was 11,182 at the 2000 census. It is the lesser populated of the two principal cities included in the Niles-Benton Harbor, Michigan Metropolitan Statistical Area...

  • 2003 - Miami FTAA Protests, Fall 2003, Miami, Florida
    Miami, Florida
    Miami is a major coastal city in southeastern Florida, in the United States. Miami is the county seat of Miami-Dade County, the most populous county in Florida. With an estimated population of 424,662 in 2007, Miami is the largest city within the Miami metropolitan area, which is the...

  • 2005 - Civil disturbances and military action in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, August - Sept., New Orleans, Louisiana
    New Orleans, Louisiana
    New Orleans is a major U.S. port and the largest city in the state of Louisiana. New Orleans is the center of the New Orleans Metropolitan Area, the largest metro area in the state....

  • 2005 - 2005 Toledo Riot
    2005 Toledo Riot
    On October 15, 2005, the National Socialist Movement , a Neo-Nazi organization, planned a march to protest alleged black gang activity in the North End of Toledo, Ohio...

    , October 15, Toledo, Ohio
    Toledo, Ohio
    Toledo is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio within the Great Lakes Region and the county seat of Lucas County. Named after Toledo, Spain, it is located on the western end of Lake Erie, on the Michigan border. It is the principal city in the Toledo Metropolitan Statistical Area. In the 2000 census,...

  • 2006 - San Bernardino punk riot
    San Bernardino punk riot
    The San Bernardino punk riot occurred on March 4 2006 after a punk rock festival entitled the British Invasion 2k6 in San Bernardino, California, United States was shut down early due to the stabbing of a youth during the concert, possibly in the concert moshpit...

    , March 4, San Bernardino, California
    San Bernardino, California
    San Bernardino is a large city located in the Inland Empire Metropolitan Area of Southern California. San Bernardino is also the county seat of San Bernardino County, California, United States. San Bernardino's estimated population, as of 2006, is 205,010. As of 2006, it was the 18th largest city...

  • 2007 - The Los Angeles May Day mêlée, May 1, Los Angeles, California
    Los Angeles, California
    Los Angeles is the largest city in the state of California and the second largest in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California...

  • 2008 - Cedar Fest riot 2008, Michigan State University
    Michigan State University
    Michigan State University is a public research university in East Lansing, Michigan USA. Founded in 1855, it was the pioneer land-grant institution and served as a model for future land-grant colleges in the United States under the 1862 Morrill Act. Its alumni include at least six winners of the...

    , April 5, 52 arrested, East Lansing, Michigan
    East Lansing, Michigan
    East Lansing is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. The city is located directly east of Lansing, Michigan, the state's capital. Most of the city is within Ingham County, though a small portion lies in Clinton County. The population was 46,525 at the time of the 2000 census...

  • 2009 - Protests against BART Police shooting of Oscar Grant
    BART Police shooting of Oscar Grant
    The BART Police shooting of Oscar Grant was a fatal shooting in Oakland, California, United States, in the early morning hours of New Year's Day 2009. Responding to reports of a fight on a crowded BART train returning from San Francisco, BART Police officers had detained Grant and several other...

    , January 7, 120 arrested, Oakland, California
    Oakland, California
    Oakland is the eighth-largest city in the U.S. state of California and a major West Coast port city, located on San Francisco Bay about eight miles east of the City of San Francisco. Oakland is a major hub city for the Bay Area subregion collectively called the East Bay, and it is the county seat...

  • 2009 - College Fest riot, Kent State University
    Kent State University
    Kent State University is a public research university located in Kent, Ohio, USA. The university has eight campuses around the northeast Ohio region with the main campus in Kent being the largest...

    , April 25, more than 50 arrested Kent, Ohio
    Kent, Ohio
    Kent is a city in Portage County, Ohio, United States. It is located along the Cuyahoga River in the northeastern part of Ohio and the western edge of Portage County...

  • 2009 - Spring Jam/Dinkytown riot, University of Minnesota
    University of Minnesota
    The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States...

    , April 25, Minneapolis, Minnesota
    Minneapolis, Minnesota
    Minneapolis is the largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota and is the county seat of Hennepin County. The city lies on both banks of the Mississippi River, just north of the river's confluence with the Minnesota River, and adjoins Saint Paul, the state's capital. Known as the Twin Cities,...

  • 2009 - Palmer Fest melee, Ohio University
    Ohio University
    Ohio University is a public university located in Athens, Ohio that is situated on an 1,800 acre campus...

    , May 10, Athens, Ohio
    Athens, Ohio
    Athens is a city in and the county seat of Athens County, Ohio, United States. A historic college town in the southeastern part of the state, Athens is home to Ohio University and the principal city of the Athens, Ohio Micropolitan Statistical Area...

  • 2009 - 2009 G-20 Pittsburgh summit
    2009 G-20 Pittsburgh summit
    The G20 summit took place at Pittsburgh's David L. Lawrence Convention Center on September 24–25, 2009. In response to the Global credit crisis, a G20 summit in one year was proposed shortly after the London summit in April 2009. Announced shortly after the G-20 London summit, U.S...

     protests, Sept. 24-25, 193 arrested, $50K in damage. Less lethal weapons used, including first use of sound cannon
    Long range acoustic device
    The Long Range Acoustic Device is a crowd-control and hailing device developed by American Technology Corporation.According to the manufacturer's specifications, the equipment weighs 45 pounds and can emit sound in a 30° beam from a device in diameter...

     against demonstrators in U.S.

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