The White Night riots were a series of violent events sparked by an announcement of a lenient sentencing of Dan White for the assassinations of George...
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Look up white night in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. White night, White Night, or White Nights may refer to: White night (astronomy), a night in which...
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Harvey Milk (section White Night riots)
The White Night riots, as they became known, lasted several hours. Later that evening, several police cruisers filled with officers wearing riot gear...
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disorder, usually in the form of riots that targeted specific religious, national, or racial groups, such as an 1831 race riot in Providence, Rhode Island...
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Stonewall riots began. There was already the emergence of a gay liberation movement in New York at the time of the riots. The Stonewall riots were not...
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was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment, which resulted in the White Night riots and the abolition of the diminished capacity criminal defense in California...
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The 1980 Miami riots were race riots that occurred in Miami, Florida, starting in earnest on May 18, 1980, following an all-White male jury acquitting...
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Demolition Night was a Major League Baseball (MLB) promotion on Thursday, July 12, 1979, at Comiskey Park in Chicago, Illinois, that ended in a riot. At the...
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San Francisco's gay community over the sentence sparked the city's White Night riots. General disdain for the verdict led to the elimination of California's...
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the police since the White Night riots a decade earlier and resulted in 53 arrests and 14 people injured. The term police riot has been applied by some...
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protests and riots occurred in the United Kingdom. This followed a mass stabbing in Southport on 29 July in which three children were killed. The riots included...
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riots, these took place shortly before the War of 1812 1824 – Hard Scrabble and Snow Town Riots, 1824 & 1831 respectively, Providence, RI (race riots)...
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force, decriminalizing homosexual acts. 21 — The White Night riots occur in San Francisco after Dan White is convicted of two counts of voluntary manslaughter...
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bassist Paul Simonon were involved in the riots at the Notting Hill Carnival of 1976. The Clash – "White Riot" (1977) Sample of the song's end of first...
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continuing debates over the underlying causes of the Watts riots. After the Watts Riots, white families left surrounding nearby suburbs like Compton, Huntington...
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York City draft riots during the American Civil War, and it was not surpassed until the 1992 Los Angeles riots 25 years later. The riot was prominently...
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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 Notting Hill race riots were a series of racially motivated riots that took place in Notting Hill, a district of London (the capital city of the United...
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about White's light sentence further galvanized the movement (see White Night Riots). The increasing visibility of gay people also generated a backlash...
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ACT UP, and took inspiration from the Stonewall and San Francisco's White Night riots. The group arose out of anti–Republican National Convention and anti–Democratic...
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over the verdict led to the White Night Riots. Twinkies were only mentioned incidentally in the courtroom during the White trial, and junk food was a minor...
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to rank evenly with someone of greater sexual experience. Men: 11.6% of white males aged 20–35 were given a rating of 3 for this period of their lives...
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2008–2009 Oslo riots 2007 Villiers-le-Bel riots 2006 Brussels riots 2005 French riots 2001 England riots Ferguson unrest 1981 Brixton riot George Floyd...
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list of ethnic riots by country, and includes riots based on ethnic, sectarian, xenophobic, and racial conflict. Some of these riots can also be classified...
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thousands in the Castro for a candlelight march. 1979: White Night Riots take place May after Dan White is not convicted of first-degree murder for the Milk-Moscone...
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references to Harvey Milk, the assassinations, the "Twinkie Defense", the White Night riots, and Dianne Feinstein's mayoral succession. Arneson refused to make...
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Springfield race riot of 1908 consisted of events of mass racial violence committed against African Americans by a mob of about 5,000 white Americans and...
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is ethnicity, an awareness of being Native American as opposed to being white or being a member of any other ethnic group". While initially focused on...
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influential in engineering Gain's replacement after the resulting White Night riots. He died from respiratory failure in August 2018 at the age of 94...
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to suck away all our time, energy and passion...30 years after the White Night Riots and 40 years after Stonewall, radicals from splintering time periods...
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