The Charlotte Riot of 2016 was a protest that lasted for three days and came after the Keith Lamont Scott shooting. Beginning on September 20, the riot resulted in violence, with one protester killed and numerous injured police officers.
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The 1899 Newburg, New York Race Riot was the culmination of months of racial tension between non-black and black brickyard workers after brickyard owners began hiring black workers to fill labor shortages. Previously, local brickyards had hired Irish workers, then Hungarian, Italian, and Arab workers with only two brickyards in the city hiring black workers exclusively. Continue reading Revisit: NEWBURG, NEW YORK RACE RIOT (1899)
he epic project that built the Alaska Highway and the Highway’s role in the defense of America during World War II is relatively well known. The racism that distorted and contaminated the project is not. Three segregated regiments worked on the Alcan. More than three thousand young black men faced up to the challenges that made the project epic, stood up to racism on top of that, and still delivered. And they received virtually no credit. Continue reading Revisit: THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE ALASKA HIGHWAY, 1942: THE ROLE OF RACE IN THE FAR NORTH
The Cincinnati Riot was four days of civil disorder in response to the shooting death of nineteen-year-old Timothy Thomas by Cincinnati Police Patrolman Stephen Roach. Officer Roach was attempting to arrest Thomas for traffic citations. The riot mostly occurred in the Over the Rhine neighborhood near downtown Cincinnati, Ohio, between April 9 and April 13, 2001. The riot was the largest urban disturbance in the United States since the 1992 Rodney King Riots and caused an estimated $3.6 million in damage to 120 businesses and public buildings. Continue reading Revisit: THE CINCINNATI RIOT
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