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New York City
Library of Congress
Racial tensions erupt into a full-fledged riot after patrolman Robert Thorpe is murdered in a street scuffle by “colored man Arthur Harris.” In the ensuing chaos hordes of angry white citizens beat and murder Negroes under the supervision of the police--with no legal ramifications. -
East Saint Louis
PBS
On July 1, 1917, a rumor spread claiming that a white man had been killed by a black man, and tensions boiled over. The next day the worst racial rioting the county had experienced raged for nearly a week, leaving nine whites and hundreds of African Americans dead. -
Chicago
Chicago Tribune
When a Black teenager was killed for swimming on a White beach it triggered a week of violence and left 38 dead. -
Harlem
New York Daily News
Rumors that whites killed a black teenager sparked 2 days of riots that left 3 dead, 60 injured, 75 arrested and exstensive property damage. -
Detroit Sojourner Housing Project
The Detroit News
150 angry whites picketed theSojourner Housing Project vowing to keep out any black homeowners. By dawn the following day, the crowd had grown to 1,200, many of whom were armed. -
Detroit
Detroit News
As racial tensions mounted over blacks and whites working togeather a conformation involving 200 blacks and whites occured on Belle Island. A rumor that a white man threw a black women and her baby off a bridge led to more intensive fighting and looting. Two days later, after Federal troops were called in, 34 lives where lost , incuded 25 blacks , 17 by Detroit police. -
Harlem
Atlanta Black Star
The Harlem Riots of 1943, which took place on August 1-2, began with a white policeman's attempt to arrest a black woman for disorderly conduct, and his shooting of an interceding black soldier. The Riot resulted in six deaths, five at the hands of police, over a thousand arrested and injured, and property damages estimated at five million dollars. -
Harlem
NPR Buruch College
NYC Policeman Thomas Gilligan shot black teenager James Powell. Peaceful protest turned into riots that lasted 6 days and pread to nieghboring Bedford-Stuyvesant. The riots resulted in 1 death, 118 injuries, and 465 arrests. -
Kerner Report
Kerner Report Summary “Our Nation Is Moving Toward Two Societies, One Black, One White—Separate and Unequal”: Excerpts from the Kerner Report Kerner Report President Johnson commissioner this study in response to riots across the country. -
Augusta Geogia
"On May 11, 1970, race riots erupt in Augusta. Although some argue the beating death of a sixteen year-old black teenager in the Richmond County Jail sparked the unrest, Mayor Millard A. Beckum claims the violence is unwarranted"
