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    The Harlem riot of 1964 occurred between July 16 and 22, 1964. It began after James Powell, a 15-year-old African American, was shot and killed by police...
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  • and followed the 1964 Rochester race riot and Harlem riot of 1964 in New York City. In 1964, North Philadelphia was the city's center of African-American...
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  • The Harlem riot of 1935 took place on March 19, 1935, in New York City, New York, in the United States. It has been described as the first "modern" race...
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    tactics. The six days of unrest throughout New York City during the Harlem riot of 1964 is viewed as the first of clusters of riots, uncoordinated with...
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  • A race riot took place in Harlem, New York City, on August 1 and 2 of 1943, after a white police officer, James Collins, shot and wounded Robert Bandy...
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  • shopkeeper Harlem riot of 1943, disturbances that began after an NYPD policeman shot and wounded a black U.S. Army soldier Harlem riot of 1964, six days of civil...
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  • three separate capers, set in 1959, 1961, and 1964. It culminates with the Harlem riot of 1964. Harlem Shuffle, Whitehead's eighth novel, was conceived...
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    specifically in Harlem. In 1964, across Harlem's three precincts, the ratio was one black police officer for every six white officers. A riot occurred in...
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  • south of East Harlem precipitates a string of race riots in July and August, including: 1964Harlem Riot of 1964, July 16–22, New York City 1964 – Rochester...
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  • The 1964 Rochester race riot was a riot that occurred in 1964 in Rochester, New York, United States. The riot occurred in the context of a rapidly-growing...
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  • topical in nature, particularly Ochs' "In the Heat of the Summer" (which chronicled the Harlem riot of 1964), and Reynolds' "It Isn't Nice". Side one "Pack...
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  • of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner, three CORE activists, in Mississippi by white supremacists that created a national sensation, and the Harlem riot of...
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    Stultz, Spencer (December 4, 2017). "The Harlem Race Riot of 1964". BlackPast.org. Retrieved May 3, 2020. "DIES OF SYLVANIA BLAST; Chemical Engineer Succumbs...
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  • 24-hour coverage of a major news event by the major networks. 1964 - Ghetto riots (1964–1969), beginning with the Harlem riot of 1964 1964 – The Beatles...
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  • Cambridge riot of 1963 1963: Lexington, NC – Lexington riot 1964: Harlem, NY – Harlem Riot of 1964 1964: Rochester, NY – Rochester riot 1964: North Philadelphia...
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    were somewhat less formally organized. At the time of the 1964 riots, the drug addiction rate in Harlem was ten times higher than the New York City average...
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  • could not solve their problems. Harlem riot of 1935 Harlem riot of 1943 Harlem riot of 1964 1968 New York City riot Fernandez, Johanna (2011). "The Young...
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    Greater Harlem, in the northern section of the New York City borough of Manhattan, has historically had high poverty and crime rates. Crime in Harlem is primarily...
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  • Globetrotters The Harlem Globetrotters (film) Harlem Renaissance Harlem Riot of 1935 Harlem Riot of 1943 Harlem Riot of 1964 Harlem Writers Guild Harriet...
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  • Little Fruit Stand Riot, which was followed twelve days later by an attack on a couple who owned a used clothing store in Harlem: Margit Sugar was fatally...
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  • Cypriots. Harlem riot of 1964 16–22 July 1964, New York City, New York, provoked by the NYPDs shooting of black teenager James Powell. Philadelphia 1964 race...
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  • of the city of Birmingham, Alabama, mayor and state politician James Powell, African American teenager whose shooting led to the Harlem riot of 1964 This...
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    shooting of Robert Bandy by a white police officer 1964Harlem riot, occurred July 16 through 22, following the fatal police shooting of a 15-year-old...
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    Alcindor wrote for the Harlem Youth Action Project newspaper. The Harlem riot of 1964, which was prompted by the fatal shooting of 15-year old black boy...
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    and Seventh Avenue during the Harlem Riot of 1964. Numerous mills sprang up along the street on the eastern side but many of the former derelict buildings...
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  • Miss riot of 1962 April 3 – May 10, 1963 Birmingham campaign July 16 – 22, 1964 Harlem riot of 1964 July 24 – 26, 1964 1964 Rochester race riot August...
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    Barry Goldwater (category Candidates in the 1964 United States presidential election)
    tensions or backlash against civil rights. After the outbreak of the Harlem riot of 1964, Goldwater privately gathered news reporters on his campaign plane...
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  • American police officer whose shooting of James Powell instigated the Harlem riot of 1964 Tom Gilligan (footballer, born 1874) (1874–1957), Australian rules...
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    East Harlem, also known as Spanish Harlem, Finnish Harlem or El Barrio, is a neighborhood of Upper Manhattan in New York City, north of the Upper East...
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    silently down Manhattan's Fifth Avenue from lower Harlem to Bloomberg's Upper East Side townhouse in protest of the stop-question-and-frisk policy. The mayor...
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