Quotes on Riots
“All you need to understand is that the officer carries with him the power of the American state and the weight of an American legacy,...
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The Wilmington Massacre of 1898
The Wilmington Massacre of 1898 was a politically motivated attack by European-Americans against the city’s leading African American citizens. The massacre occurred because Southern Whyte...
The Ocoee Massacre
The Ocoee massacre, considered the “single bloodiest day in modern American political history,” was a violent race riot that broke out on November 2, 1920....
The Christiana Riot of 1851
In 1851, in Christiana, Pennsylvania, one of the earliest armed confrontations took place between a group of African-Americans and Euro-American abolitionists and a Maryland posse...
The Watts Riots of 1965: An uprising against an oppressive system
“A riot is the language of the unheard.” ~MLK The Watts riots, which raged for six days, from August 11 to 17, in the Watts...
11 Black Men brutally murdered: The New York City Draft Riots
On July 13, 1863, anti-draft violence erupted in New York City, resulting in four days of bloodshed, arson, looting, and mayhem. The New York City...