United States Nativist period: 1700s–1860 • 1824:
Providence, RI –
Hard Scrabble Riots • 1829:
Cincinnati, OH –
Cincinnati riots of 1829 • 1831: Providence, RI -
Hard Scrabble and Snow Town • 1834:
Ursuline Convent riots in
Charlestown, Massachusetts – Convent burned to the ground • 1834:
Philadelphia, PA – pro-slavery riots • 1834: New York, NY –
New York City pro-slavery riots • 1835: Boston, MA – pro-slavery riots • 1835:
Five Points Riot - "In June of the summer of 1835 occurred the Five Points riot, which grew out of the feeling between Americans and foreigners," • 1835: Washington, D.C. –
Snow Riot • 1836: Cincinnati, OH –
Cincinnati riots of 1836 • 1841: Cincinnati, OH –
Cincinnati riots of 1841 White Irish-descendant and Irish immigrant dock workers rioted against black dock workers. • 1844: Philadelphia, PA –
Philadelphia Nativist Riots • 1851:
Hoboken, NJ – anti-German riot • 1855:
Louisville, KY – "Bloody Monday" Protestant mobs attacked German and Irish immigrants.
Civil War period: 1861–1865 Reconstruction era: 1865–1877 • 1866:
New Orleans massacre of 1866 • 1866:
Memphis, Tennessee, mostly ethnic Irish against African Americans • 1868:
Pulaski Riot • 1868:
St. Bernard Parish massacre,
St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, whites against blacks • 1868:
Opelousas massacre,
Opelousas, Louisiana, whites against blacks • 1868:
Camilla massacre,
Camilla, Georgia, whites against blacks • 1870:
Eutaw massacre,
Eutaw, Alabama, whites against blacks • 1870: Laurens, South Carolina • 1870:
New York City Orange Riot • 1871:
Second New York City Orange Riot • 1871: Los Angeles,
Chinese massacre. Mixed Mexican and white mob killed 17–20 Chinese in the largest mass lynching in U.S. history • 1871:
Meridian race riot of 1871,
Meridian, Mississippi, whites against African Americans • 1891: New Orleans, lynchings of Italians and riot • 1873:
Colfax massacre, white Democrats against black Republicans • 1874: New Orleans, Louisiana (
Battle of Liberty Place) After contested gubernatorial election, Democrats took over state buildings for three days • 1874:
Coushatta massacre,
Coushatta, Louisiana, white Democrats against black Republicans • 1874–1875:
Vicksburg massacre, Vicksburg, Mississippi • 1875: Yazoo City, Mississippi • 1875: Clinton, Mississippi • 1876:
Hamburg Massacre • 1876:
Ellenton riot,
Ellenton, South Carolina Jim Crow era: 1878–1914 • 1885: Rock Springs, WY –
Anti-Chinese riot • 1886: Seattle, WA –
Seattle riot of 1886 • 1889: Forrest City, AR –
1889 Forrest City riot • 1891: New Orleans, LA –
March 14, 1891 New Orleans lynchings • 1898: North Carolina –
Wilmington massacre (white Democrats overthrew elected government and attacked blacks) • 1898: Lake City, SC –
Lynching of Frazier B. Baker and Julia Baker • 1898: Greenwood County, SC –
Phoenix election riot • 1900: New Orleans, LA –
Robert Charles riots • 1900: Manhattan, NY –
Tenderloin anti-black mob and police riot • 1904: Springfield, OH – Springfield race riot of 1904 • 1906: Springfield, OH – Springfield race riot of 1906 • 1906: Brownsville, TX –
Brownsville affair • 1907: Onancock, VA – Two buildings owned by black residents were burned, black residents were ordered to leave town, and some people were injured by gunfire. • 1907: San Francisco, CA and Bellingham, WA –
Pacific Coast race riots of 1907 (anti-Asian) • 1908: Springfield, IL –
Springfield race riot of 1908 • 1909: Omaha, NE –
Greek Town riot • 1910: Nationwide –
Johnson–Jeffries riots (anti-black riots following the heavyweight championship victory of
Jack Johnson against
Jim Jeffries) • 1910: Slocum, TX –
Slocum massacre War and interwar period: 1914–1945 • 1917: East St. Louis, IL –
East St. Louis riots • 1917: Chester, PA –
1917 Chester race riot • 1917: Philadelphia, PA - South Philadelphia Sugar Refinery Riot and The South Philadelphia Food Riots of 1917. • 1917: El Paso, TX –
1917 Bath riots • 1917: Houston, TX –
Houston riot • 1919:
Red Summer • Washington, D.C. •
Chicago race riot of 1919 •
Omaha race riot of 1919 •
Charleston riot of 1919 •
Longview race riot •
Knoxville riot of 1919 •
Elaine Race Riot • 1920: Ocoee, FL –
Ocoee Massacre • 1921: Tulsa, OK –
Tulsa race massacre • 1921: Springfield, OH – Springfield race riot of 1921 • 1927: Yakima Valley, WA –
Yakima Valley riots (anti-Filipino) • 1928: Wenatchee Valley – Wenatchee Valley anti-Filipino riot • 1930: Watsonville, CA –
Watsonville riots (anti-Filipino riot that inspired further riots and attacks in San Francisco, Salinas, San Jose, and elsewhere). • 1943: Beaumont, TX –
Beaumont race riot of 1943 • 1943: New York, NY –
Harlem riot of 1943 • 1943: Los Angeles, CA –
Zoot Suit Riots (white against Mexican Americans and other
Zoot suit wearers) • 1944: Agana, Guam –
Agana race riot Postwar era: 1946–1954 • 1946: Airport Homes race riots (series)
Airport Homes race riots • 1946: Columbia, TN –
Columbia race riot of 1946 • 1949: Cortlandt Manor, NY –
Peekskill riots (anti-communist race riots against Jews and African Americans) • 1951: Cicero, IL –
Cicero race riot Civil rights and Black Power period: 1955–1977 • 1958: Maxton, NC –
Battle of Hayes Pond • 1962: Oxford, MS –
Ole Miss riot • 1963: Birmingham, AL –
Birmingham Riot of 1963 • 1963: Cambridge, MD –
Cambridge riot of 1963 • 1963: Lexington, NC – Lexington riot • 1964: Harlem, NY –
Harlem Riot of 1964 • 1964: Rochester, NY –
Rochester riot • 1964: North Philadelphia, PA –
Philadelphia 1964 race riot • 1965: Los Angeles, CA –
Watts Riots • 1966: Humboldt Park, Chicago, IL –
Division Street riots • 1966: Cleveland, OH –
Hough Riots • 1966: Omaha, NE –
North Omaha summer riots • 1966: Dayton, Ohio –
1966 Dayton race riot • 1967:
Long Hot Summer of 1967 • June 2: Boston riot (Boston, MA) • June 11 – 14:
Tampa riot (Tampa, FL) • June 12 – June 15:
Cincinnati riot (Cincinnati, OH) • June 17: Atlanta riot (Atlanta, GA) • June 26 – July 1:
Buffalo riot (Buffalo, NY) • July 12 – 17:
Newark riots (Newark, NJ) • July 14 – 16:
Plainfield riots (Plainsfield, NJ) • July 17:
Cairo riot (Cairo, IL) • July 20 – 21:
Minneapolis riot (Minneapolis, MN) • July 23 – 25:
Toledo riot (Toledo, OH) • July 23 – 28:
Detroit riot (Detroit, MI) • July 24:
Cambridge riot (Cambridge, MD) • July 26:
Saginaw riot (Saginaw, MI) • July 30:
Albina riot (Portland, OR) • July 30 – August 3:
Milwaukee riot (Milwaukee, WI) • 1968:
Protests of 1968 •
Orangeburg massacre (Orangeburg, SC) • 1968:
King-assassination riots (riots following the assassination of
Martin Luther King Jr.) •
Baltimore riot of 1968 (Baltimore, MD) •
Chicago West Side riots (Chicago, IL) •
Louisville riots of 1968 (Louisville, KY) •
1968 Washington, D.C. riots (Washington, D.C.) •
1968 Wilmington riots (Wilmington, DE) • 1968: Cleveland, OH –
Glenville shootout and riot • 1969: York, PA –
1969 York Race Riot • 1969: New York, NY –
Stonewall Riot • 1970: Augusta, GA –
May 11 Race Riot • 1970: Jackson, MS –
Jackson State killings • 1971: Camden, NJ –
Camden riots • 1976: Pensacola, FL –
Escambia High School riots • 1972: Coast of
North Vietnam –
USS Kitty Hawk Riot (October 12–13)
1978 to today • 1978: Houston, TX –
Moody Park Riot (on the first anniversary of
Joe Campos Torres' death). • 1979: Worcester, MA – Great Brook Valley Projects Riots (Puerto Ricans rioted) • 1980: Miami, FL –
Miami riots (riots in reaction to the acquittal of four Miami-Dade Police officers in the death of Arthur McDuffie). • 1980: Chattanooga, TN – Chattanooga riot • 1984: Lawrence, MA –
1984 Lawrence Riot (a small scale riot centered at the intersection of Haverhill and railroad streets between working class whites and Hispanics; several buildings were destroyed by Molotov cocktails; August 8, 1984). • 1989: Miami, FL – Overtown riot (two nights of rioting by residents after a black motorcyclist was shot by a Hispanic police officer in the predominantly black community of Overtown. The officer was later convicted of manslaughter). • 1990: Miami, FL –
Wynwood riot (Puerto Ricans rioted after a jury acquitted six officers accused of beating a Puerto Rican drug dealer to death) • 1991: Brooklyn, New York, NY –
Crown Heights riot (black anti-Jewish mob killed 2, injured 190). • 1992: Los Angeles, CA –
Los Angeles riots (riots in reaction to the acquittal of all four
LAPD officers involved in the videotaped beating of
Rodney King, in addition to the Korean involved in the murder of
Latasha Harlins; riots broke out mainly involving black and Latino youths in the black neighborhoods of
South Central LA and in the neighborhood of
Koreatown before spreading to the rest of the city) • 1996: St. Petersburg, FL –
St. Petersburg riots (2-day riots that broke out after 18-year-old Tyron Lewis was fatally shot by Officer Jim Knight, who stopped Lewis for speeding and claimed to have accidentally fire his weapon). • 2001: Cincinnati, OH –
Cincinnati riots (riots in a reaction to the fatal shooting of an unarmed young black male,
Timothy Thomas by Cincinnati police officer Steven Roach). • 2003: Benton Harbor, MI –
Benton Harbor riots • 2005: Toledo, OH –
2005 Toledo riot (a race riot that broke out after a planned
Neo-Nazi protest march through a black neighborhood). • 2006: Fontana, CA –
Fontana High School riot (riot involving about 500 Latino and black students) • 2006: California – Prison race riots (a series of riots across California set off by a war between Latino and black prison gangs) • 2008: Los Angeles, CA –
Locke High School riot • 2009: Oakland, CA –
2009 Oakland riots (peaceful protests turned into rioting after the fatal shooting of
Oscar Grant, an unarmed black man, by a BART transit policeman). • 2014–2015: Ferguson, MO – The
Ferguson unrest (a series of riots that broke out over the
shooting of Michael Brown). • 2014 August:
riots for two weeks after the initial shooting of Brown. • 2014 November – December: riots for one week after the police officer who shot Brown was not
indicted. • 2015 August: riots for two days during the anniversary of Brown's shooting. • 2015: Baltimore, MD –
2015 Baltimore riots (protests-turned-riots following the
death of Freddie Gray, an incident in which a suspect died in police custody) • 2016: Salt Lake City, UT – Riots sparked by the shooting of Abdullahi Omar Mohamed. • 2020: Nationwide –
2020 United States riots (protests-turned-riots that broke out across the US following the
murder of George Floyd). == Asia ==