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...

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...

The White Night riots, as they became known, lasted several hours. Later that evening, several police cruisers filled with officers wearing riot gear...

Stonewall riots, and there was already the emergence of a gay liberation movement in New York at the time of the riots. The Stonewall riots were not the...

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...

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...

was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment, which resulted in the White Night riots and the abolition of the diminished capacity criminal defense in California...

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...

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...

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...

continuing debates over the underlying causes of the Watts riots. After the Watts Riots, white families left surrounding nearby suburbs like Compton, Huntington...

riots, these took place shortly before the War of 1812 1824 – Hard Scrabble and Snow Town Riots, 1824 & 1831 respectively, Providence, RI (race riots)...

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...

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...

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...

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...

about White's light sentence further galvanized the movement (see White Night Riots). The increasing visibility of gay people also generated a backlash...

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...

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...

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...

references to Harvey Milk, the assassinations, the "Twinkie Defense", the White Night riots, and Dianne Feinstein's mayoral succession. Arneson refused to make...

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...

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...

The Chicago race riot of 1919 was a violent racial conflict between white Americans and black Americans that began on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois...

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...

force, decriminalizing homosexual acts. 21 — The White Night riots occur in San Francisco after Dan White is convicted of two counts of voluntary manslaughter...

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...

designed in 2011 by Marilyn Roxie. Lavender represents androgyny or queerness, white represents agender identity, and green represents those whose identities...

incident was one of the first LGBT-related riots in United States history, preceding the more famous 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City. It marked the beginning...

The New York City draft riots (July 13–16, 1863), sometimes referred to as the Manhattan draft riots and known at the time as Draft Week, were violent...