• The 1968 Detroit riot was a civil disturbance that occurred between April 4–5, 1968 in Detroit, Michigan following the assassination of Martin Luther King...
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    The 1967 Detroit riot, also known as the 12th Street Riot, and the Detroit Uprising, was the bloodiest of the urban riots in the United States during the...
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  • riot, April 4–5, Detroit, Michigan 19681968 New York City riots, April 4–5, New York City, New York 19681968 Tallahassee riots, April 4–7, Tallahassee...
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  • Riots in Detroit, Michigan, have occurred since the city was founded in 1701. This area was settled by various ethnicities following thousands of years...
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    Washington race riot of 1919 1991 Washington, D.C., riot 1968 New York City riot 1968 Detroit riot 1968 Louisville riots 1968 Pittsburgh riots 1968 Kansas City...
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  • Algiers Motel incident (category Riots and civil disorder in Detroit)
    Murders) occurred in Detroit, Michigan, United States, throughout the night of July 25–26, 1967, during the racially charged 12th Street Riot. At the Algiers...
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  • The Stonewall riots, also known as the Stonewall uprising, Stonewall rebellion, Stonewall revolution, or simply Stonewall, were a series of spontaneous...
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    riots taking place in Detroit and Newark), came to a climax during the national wave of King assassination riots in over 100 American cities in 1968,...
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  • of 1968, Baltimore 1968 Washington, D.C. riots, Washington, D.C. 1968 New York City riot, New York City West Side Riots, Chicago 1968 Detroit riot, Detroit...
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    Livernois–Fenkell riot was a racially motivated riot in the summer of 1975 on Livernois Avenue at Chalfonte Avenue, just south of Fenkell Avenue, in Detroit, Michigan...
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  • The Detroit race riot of 1863 occurred on March 6, 1863, in the city of Detroit, Michigan, during the American Civil War. At the time, the Detroit Free...
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  • 1980 Miami riots were the deadliest urban riots in a single city since the 1967 Detroit riot and remained such until the 1992 Los Angeles riots twelve years...
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    April 4, 1968. Some of the biggest riots took place in Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Chicago, and Kansas City. The immediate cause of the rioting was the...
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    The Sunset Strip curfew riots, also known as the "hippie riots", were a series of early counterculture-era clashes that took place between police and young...
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    The Compton's Cafeteria riot occurred in August 1966 in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco. The riot was a response to the violent and constant police...
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  • her college's creative writing class based on a news account on the 1968 Detroit riot about a group of black youths that had kidnapped a white girl, and...
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    August Rebellion (category Prison riots in the United States)
    rights of incarcerated people in the United States. Following the prison riot the women filed and won the class-action lawsuit Powell v. Ward. This lawsuit...
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  • – Harlem riot of 1935 1943: Detroit, MI – Detroit race riot 1943: Beaumont, TX – Beaumont race riot of 1943 1943: New York, NY – Harlem riot of 1943 1943:...
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  • Greensboro massacre (category 1979 riots)
    conducted by the state, five were charged with first-degree murder and felony riot. All of the defendants were acquitted, albeit one pleaded guilty earlier...
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  • The 1970 Memorial Park riot was a civil disturbance by alienated white youths that began in Royal Oak, Michigan, on August 24, 1970, and spread to Birmingham...
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  • Tampa riots were a series of race riots during June 1967 in Tampa, Florida, as one of 159 such riots in the United States that summer. The Tampa riots began...
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  • The 1968 Tallahassee riots were one of many riots that broke out after Martin Luther King was assassinated in Tallahassee, Florida lasting from April...
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  • The 1968 Detroit Tigers won the 1968 World Series, defeating the St. Louis Cardinals four games to three. The 1968 baseball season, known as the "Year...
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    "The Detroit Rioters of 1943: A Reinterpretation", Michigan Historical Review, January 1990, Vol. 16 Issue 1, pp. 49–72. "The 1943 Detroit race riots – Michigan...
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  • Tensions were high across Michigan that week as the 1967 Detroit riots in nearby Detroit had been escalating since Sunday July 23. When Saginaw mayor...
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  • were known as race riots of the civil rights period. These riots in particular culminated in 1968–1969. The analyses of urban riots in terms of urban conditions...
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  • climaxing in 1968 following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4. The summer of 1967 in particular saw more than 159 riots. Most, if not...
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    United States President Lyndon B. Johnson during the King assassination riots. Titles II through VII comprise the Indian Civil Rights Act, which applies...
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    Riot (1922) on Chicago race riot of 1919 Fine, Sidney. Violence in the Model City: The Cavanagh Administration, Race Relations, and the Detroit Riot Of...
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  • The Hunters Point social uprising (also known as the Hunters Point Riot or Rebellion) broke out in the Hunters Point neighborhood of San Francisco on the...
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