Mass racial violence in the United States

1807

In June, president Donald Trump threatened to use the military to disperse protesters by invoking the Insurrection Act of 1807.

1846

Numerous books have been written on the subject of the California Indian genocide such as Genocide and Vendetta: The Round Valley Wars in Northern California by Lynwood Carranco and Estle Beard, Murder State: California's Native American Genocide, 1846–1873 by Brendan C.

Lindsay, and An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846–1873 by Benjamin Madley among others.

Contemporary historian Benjamin Madley has documented the numbers of California Indians killed between 1846 and 1873; he estimates that during this period at least 9,400 to 16,000 California Indians were killed by non-Indians.

1849

And that's the way it needs to be described in the history books." By one estimate, at least 4,500 California Indians were killed between 1849 and 1870.

1850

While we cannot anticipate the result with but painful regret, the inevitable destiny of the race is beyond the power and wisdom of man to avert." Between 1850 and 1852 the state appropriated almost one million dollars for the activities of these militias, and between 1854 and 1859 the state appropriated another $500,000, almost half of which was reimbursed by the federal government.

1851

During the early-to-mid- 19th centuries, violent rioting occurred between Protestant "Nativists" and recently arrived Irish Catholic immigrants. The San Francisco Vigilance Movements of 1851 and 1856 have been described as responses to rampant crime and government corruption.

1852

While we cannot anticipate the result with but painful regret, the inevitable destiny of the race is beyond the power and wisdom of man to avert." Between 1850 and 1852 the state appropriated almost one million dollars for the activities of these militias, and between 1854 and 1859 the state appropriated another $500,000, almost half of which was reimbursed by the federal government.

1854

While we cannot anticipate the result with but painful regret, the inevitable destiny of the race is beyond the power and wisdom of man to avert." Between 1850 and 1852 the state appropriated almost one million dollars for the activities of these militias, and between 1854 and 1859 the state appropriated another $500,000, almost half of which was reimbursed by the federal government.

1856

During the early-to-mid- 19th centuries, violent rioting occurred between Protestant "Nativists" and recently arrived Irish Catholic immigrants. The San Francisco Vigilance Movements of 1851 and 1856 have been described as responses to rampant crime and government corruption.

1859

While we cannot anticipate the result with but painful regret, the inevitable destiny of the race is beyond the power and wisdom of man to avert." Between 1850 and 1852 the state appropriated almost one million dollars for the activities of these militias, and between 1854 and 1859 the state appropriated another $500,000, almost half of which was reimbursed by the federal government.

1870

And that's the way it needs to be described in the history books." By one estimate, at least 4,500 California Indians were killed between 1849 and 1870.

1871

Holden was eventually impeached because of the offensive. 1870: New York City orange riot 1871: Meridian race riot of 1871, Meridian, Mississippi, whites against blacks 1871: Second New York City orange riot 1871: Los Angeles anti-Chinese riot, mixed Mexican and white mob killed 17–20 Chinese in the largest mass lynching in U.S.

1873

Contemporary historian Benjamin Madley has documented the numbers of California Indians killed between 1846 and 1873; he estimates that during this period at least 9,400 to 16,000 California Indians were killed by non-Indians.

1877

Although the federal government originally kept troops in the South to protect these new freedoms, this time of progress was cut short. By 1877 the North had lost its political will in the South and while slavery remained abolished, the Black Codes and segregation laws helped erase most of the freedoms passed by the 14th and 15th amendments.

1880

Lynchings in the United States dropped in number from the 1880s to the 1920s, but there were still an average of about 30 lynchings per year during the 1920s.

1882

New York: Seven Stories Press, 2004. ==External links== Revolution '67 – Documentary about the Newark, New Jersey, race riots of 1967 Uprisings Urban riots of the 1960s. Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture Lynchings: By State and Race, 1882–1968 History of racism in the United States Hate crime Riots and civil disorder in the United States

1887

In 1887, for example, ten thousand workers at sugar plantations in Louisiana, organized by the Knights of Labor, went on strike for an increase in their pay to $1.25 a day.

1890

In the 1890s a total of twenty Italians were lynched in the South. ===The Reconstruction era (1863–1877)=== Immediately following the Civil War, political pressure from the North called for a full abolition of slavery.

1891

In 1891, eleven Italians were lynched by a mob of thousands in New Orleans.

Those of them not killed took to the woods, a majority of them finding refuge in this city. In 1891, a mob lynched Joe Coe, a black worker in Omaha, Nebraska suspected of attacking a young white woman from South Omaha.

1895

The National Guard was mobilized to avert open warfare. 1895: 1895 New Orleans dockworkers riot 1898: Wilmington race riot A group of Democrats sought to remove African-Americans from the political scene, and went about this by launching a campaign of accusing African-American men of sexually assaulting white women.

1914

Eleven white men were arrested, none went to trial. ===War and Inter-War period: 1914–1945=== 1915: Leyden riot.

1917

The 1917 Chester race riot took place over four days in July.

1919

White-on-Black race riots include the Atlanta riots (1906), the Omaha and Chicago riots (1919), part of a series of riots in the volatile post-World War I environment, and the Tulsa massacre (1921). The Chicago race riot of 1919 grew out of tensions on the Southside, where Irish descendants and African Americans competed for jobs at the stockyards, and where both were crowded into substandard housing.

All other National Guard troops were barred from the city streets until the fair ended. 1917: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1917: Houston, Texas Red Summer of 1919.

1920

Lynchings in the United States dropped in number from the 1880s to the 1920s, but there were still an average of about 30 lynchings per year during the 1920s.

1921

A total of 23 black people and 15 white people were killed. The 1921 Tulsa race massacre was the result of economic competition, and white resentment of black successes in Greenwood, which was compared to Wall Street and filled with independent businesses.

Reconstructing the dreamland: The Tulsa race riot of 1921 (2002) Chicago Commission on Race Relations.

1929

A study done of 100 lynchings from 1929 to 1940 discovered that at least one third of the victims were innocent of the crimes of which they were accused. Racial and ethnic cleansing took place on a large scale in this time period, particularly towards Native Americans, who were forced off their land and relocated to reservations.

1940

A study done of 100 lynchings from 1929 to 1940 discovered that at least one third of the victims were innocent of the crimes of which they were accused. Racial and ethnic cleansing took place on a large scale in this time period, particularly towards Native Americans, who were forced off their land and relocated to reservations.

1956

In March 1956, United States Senator Sam Ervin of North Carolina created the Southern Manifesto, which promised to fight to keep Jim Crow alive by all legal means. This continuation of support for Jim Crow and segregation laws led to protests in which many African-Americans were violently injured out in the open at lunchroom counters, buses, polling places and local public areas.

1960

White rioters in airplanes shot at black refugees and dropped improvised kerosene bombs and dynamite on them. By the 1960s, decades of racial, economic, and political forces, which generated inner city poverty, resulted in race riots within minority areas in cities across the United States.

This event became, per capita, one of the deadliest civil disturbances of the 1960s.

New York: Seven Stories Press, 2004. ==External links== Revolution '67 – Documentary about the Newark, New Jersey, race riots of 1967 Uprisings Urban riots of the 1960s. Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture Lynchings: By State and Race, 1882–1968 History of racism in the United States Hate crime Riots and civil disorder in the United States

1967

The beating and rumored death of cab driver John Smith by police, sparked the 1967 Newark riots.

New York: Seven Stories Press, 2004. ==External links== Revolution '67 – Documentary about the Newark, New Jersey, race riots of 1967 Uprisings Urban riots of the 1960s. Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture Lynchings: By State and Race, 1882–1968 History of racism in the United States Hate crime Riots and civil disorder in the United States

1968

The April 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

"The conditions underlying race riots as portrayed by multidimensional scalogram analysis: A reanalysis of Lieberson and Silverman's data" American Sociological Review 1968, 33#1: 76–91. Brophy, A.L.

1980

The War on Drugs has been noted as a direct cause for the dramatic increase in incarceration, which has risen from 300,000 to more than 2,000,000 from 1980 to 2000 in the nation's prison system, though it does not account for the disproportionate African American homicide and crime rate, which peaked before the War on Drugs began. ===Nineteenth-century events=== Like lynchings, race riots often had their roots in economic tensions or in white defense of the color line.

During the same time period, and since then, violent acts committed against African-American churches and their members have been commonplace. During the 1980s and '90s a number of riots occurred that were related to longstanding racial tensions between police and minority communities.

The 1980 Miami riots were catalyzed by the killing of an African-American motorist by four white Miami-Dade Police officers.

1982

In its wake, several Jews were seriously injured; one Orthodox Jewish man, Yankel Rosenbaum, was killed; and a non-Jewish man, allegedly mistaken by rioters for a Jew, was killed by a group of African-American men. 1991: Overtown, Miami – In the heavily Black section against Cuban Americans, like earlier riots there in 1982 and 1984. 1991: 1991 Washington, D.C.

1984

In its wake, several Jews were seriously injured; one Orthodox Jewish man, Yankel Rosenbaum, was killed; and a non-Jewish man, allegedly mistaken by rioters for a Jew, was killed by a group of African-American men. 1991: Overtown, Miami – In the heavily Black section against Cuban Americans, like earlier riots there in 1982 and 1984. 1991: 1991 Washington, D.C.

1991

In its wake, several Jews were seriously injured; one Orthodox Jewish man, Yankel Rosenbaum, was killed; and a non-Jewish man, allegedly mistaken by rioters for a Jew, was killed by a group of African-American men. 1991: Overtown, Miami – In the heavily Black section against Cuban Americans, like earlier riots there in 1982 and 1984. 1991: 1991 Washington, D.C.

1992

Similarly, the six-day 1992 Los Angeles riots erupted after the acquittal of four white LAPD officers who had been filmed beating Rodney King, an African-American motorist.

riot – Riots following the shooting of a Salvadoran man by a police officer in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood, aggravated by grievances felt by Latinos in the district. 1992: 1992 Los Angeles riots – April 29 to May 4 – a series of riots, lootings, arsons and civil disturbance that occurred in Los Angeles County, California in 1992, following the acquittal of police officers on trial regarding the assault of Rodney King. 1996: St.

1999

Violence in America: An Encyclopedia (3 vol 1999) Hofstadter, Richard, and Michael Wallace, eds.

2000

The War on Drugs has been noted as a direct cause for the dramatic increase in incarceration, which has risen from 300,000 to more than 2,000,000 from 1980 to 2000 in the nation's prison system, though it does not account for the disproportionate African American homicide and crime rate, which peaked before the War on Drugs began. ===Nineteenth-century events=== Like lynchings, race riots often had their roots in economic tensions or in white defense of the color line.

2002

At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America, New York: Random House, 2002.

2004

New York: Seven Stories Press, 2004. ==External links== Revolution '67 – Documentary about the Newark, New Jersey, race riots of 1967 Uprisings Urban riots of the 1960s. Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture Lynchings: By State and Race, 1882–1968 History of racism in the United States Hate crime Riots and civil disorder in the United States

2007

On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-first Century (Beacon Press, 2007) Rable, George C.

2014

The 2014 Ferguson unrest occurred against a backdrop of racial tension between police and the black community of Ferguson, Missouri in the wake of the police shooting of Michael Brown; similar incidents elsewhere such as the shooting of Trayvon Martin sparked smaller and isolated protests.

According to the Associated Press' annual poll of United States news directors and editors, the top news story of 2014 was police killings of unarmed black people, including Brown, as well as the investigations and the protests afterward.

2017

During the 2017 Unite the Right rally, an attendee drove his car into a crowd of people protesting the rally, killing 32-year-old Heather D.

2020

Heyer and injuring 19 others, and was indicted on federal hate crime charges. In 2020, the killing of Ahmaud Arbery and police killings of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd sparked racial unrest over systemic racism and police brutality against African Americans.




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