1900–1909 • 1900 –
Akron Riot of 1900,
Akron, Ohio • 1900 –
New Orleans Riot (race riots) • 1900 –
1900 Liberty County riot, August 18,
Liberty County, Georgia • 1900 – New York City Race Riot • 1901 –
Denver Riots,
Denver, Colorado • 1901 – Pierce City Riots,
Pierce City, Missouri • 1903 –
Colorado Labor Wars, 1903–1904 • 1903 –
Anthracite Coal Strike, Eastern
Pennsylvania • 1903 –
Evansville Race Riot,
Evansville, Indiana • 1905 –
1905 Chicago teamsters' strike, April 7 – July 19, Conflict between the
Teamsters Union and the
Employers' Association of Chicago by the end, 21 people killed and 416 injured, mostly workers.
Chicago, IL • 1906 – Rioting and looting after the
1906 San Francisco earthquake • 1906 –
Atlanta Race Riot,
Atlanta, Georgia • 1907 –
Bellingham riots,
Bellingham, Washington (anti-Indian riots) • 1908 –
Springfield Race Riot,
Springfield, Illinois (anti-Black riots) • 1909 –
Greek Town riot, February 21,
South Omaha, Nebraska (anti-Greek riots)
1910–1919 • 1910 –
Johnson–Jeffries riots (race riots) • 1910–1919 –
Bandit War Southern
Texas • 1910 –
Philadelphia general strike (1910),
Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania • 1912 –
Lawrence textile strike,
Lawrence, Massachusetts (January to March) • 1912 –
Grabow riot (July 7); (labor riot) • 1913 –
Wheatland Riot, August 3,
Wheatland, California (labor riot) • 1913 –
Paterson silk strike, February 25 – July 28
Paterson, New Jersey • 1913 –
Copper Country Strike of 1913–1914,
Calumet, Michigan • 1913 –
Colorado Coalfield War, September 23 – April 29, 1914, Southern
Colorado (labor riot) • 1913 –
Indianapolis streetcar strike of 1913, October 30 – November 7,
Indianapolis, Indiana • 1914 –
Ludlow massacre, April 20,
Ludlow, Colorado (labor massacre) • 1914 –
Macaroni Riots, August 29 – September 7,
Federal Hill, Providence, Rhode Island • 1916 –
Preparedness Day bombing, July 22,
San Francisco, California • 1916 –
Everett massacre, November 5,
Everett, Washington (labor massacre) • 1917 –
Bath riots, January 28–30,
El Paso, Texas • 1917 –
East St. Louis Race Riots, July 2,
St. Louis, Missouri &
East St. Louis, Illinois (race riots triggered by labor competition) • 1917 –
Chester race riot, July 25–29,
Chester, Pennsylvania • 1917 – Springfield Vigilante Riot,
Springfield, Missouri • 1917 –
Green Corn Rebellion, August 3, A brief popular uprising advocating for the rural poor and against military conscription,
Central Oklahoma • 1917 –
Houston Race riot, August 23,
Houston, Texas • 1917 – St. Paul Streetcar Riots, October and December, St. Paul, Minnesota • 1918 – Detroit trolley riot,
Detroit, Michigan • 1919 -
United States strike wave from coast to coast, including
New York to
Seattle General Strike, to
Los Angeles streetcar strike of 1919 • 1919 –
Seattle General Strike, February 6–11,
Seattle, Washington • 1919 –
May Day Riots, May 1,
Cleveland, Ohio,
Boston,
Massachusetts,
New York City,
New York (state) (labor riots triggered by
Eugene V. Debs' conviction, and American intervention in the
Russian Civil War) • 1919 –
Red Summer, white riots against blacks. white supremacist terrorism and racial riots in almost 40 cities and an Arkansas rural county. •
Blakeley, Georgia (February 8) •
Memphis, Tennessee (March 14) •
Morgan County, West Virginia (April 10) •
Jenkins County, Georgia (April 13) •
Charleston, South Carolina (May 10) •
Sylvester, Georgia (May 10) •
New London, Connecticut (May 29) •
Putnam County, Georgia (May 27–29) •
Monticello, Mississippi (May 31) • Memphis, Tennessee (June 13) •
New London, Connecticut (June 13) •
Annapolis, Maryland (June 27) •
Macon, Mississippi (June 27) •
Bisbee, Arizona (July 3) •
Dublin, Georgia (July 6) •
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (July 7) •
Coatesville, Pennsylvania (July 8) •
Tuscaloosa, Alabama (July 9) •
Longview, Texas (July 10–12) •
Indianapolis, Indiana (July 14) •
Port Arthur, Texas (July 15) •
Washington, D.C. (July 19–24). 15 dead •
Norfolk, Virginia (July 21) •
New Orleans, Louisiana (July 23) •
Darby, Pennsylvania (July 23) •
Hobson City, Alabama (July 26) •
Chicago, Illinois (July 27 – August 3), one of the largest episodes of anti-black violence in American history. 38 dead •
Newberry, South Carolina (July 28) •
Bloomington, Illinois (July 31) •
Syracuse, New York (July 31) •
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (July 31) •
Hattiesburg, Mississippi (August 4) • Texarkana, Texas riot of 1919 (August 6) •
New York, New York (August 21) •
Knoxville, Tennessee (August 30) •
Ellenton, South Carolina (September 15–21) •
Omaha, Nebraska (September 28–29) •
Elaine, Arkansas (October 1–2) •
Baltimore, Maryland (October 1–2) •
Corbin, Kentucky (October 31, 1919) •
Wilmington, Delaware (November 13) • 1919 –
Annapolis riot of 1919, June 27,
Annapolis, Maryland • 1919 –
Boston Police Strike, September 9–11,
Boston,
Massachusetts • 1919 –
Steel Strike of 1919, September 22 – January 8 (1920) involved workers in Pueblo, Colorado; Chicago, Illinois, Wheeling, West Virginia; Johnstown,
Pennsylvania; Cleveland, Ohio; Lackawanna, New York; and Youngstown, Ohio. • 1919 –
United Mine Workers coal strike of 1919, November 1 – December 10. largely in
Pennsylvania, Illinois and West Virginia • 1919 –
Centralia Massacre, November 11,
Centralia, Washington (skirmish between legion members and IWW caused 6 deaths)
1920–1929 • 1920 –
1920 Lexington riots, Feb 20,
Lexington, KY • 1920 –
Battle of Matewan, May 20, arising from coal miners strike in
Matewan, West Virginia (Ten dead) • 1920 -
Denver streetcar strike of 1920, August 1–7, 1920,
Denver, Colorado • 1920 –
Ocoee massacre, November 2–3,
Ocoee, Florida (massacre of 30-80 blacks on occasion of
1920 United States presidential election) • 1921 –
Tulsa Race Massacre, May 31 – June 1,
Tulsa, Oklahoma • 1921 –
Battle of Blair Mountain, August–September,
Logan County, West Virginia (an episode of the 1890-1930
Coal Wars). labor massacre in which up to 100 coal miners were killed • 1922 –
Herrin Massacre, June 21–22,
Herrin, Illinois (labor massacre) • 1922 –
Straw Hat Riot, September 13–15,
New York City,
New York • 1922 –
Perry race riot, December 14–15,
Perry, Florida • 1923 –
Rosewood Massacre, January 1–7,
Rosewood, Florida (race massacre - perhaps as many as 150 blacks killed, black-majority town of Rosewood destroyed. • 1925 –
Ossian Sweet incident, September,
Detroit, Michigan • 1927 –
Yakima Valley Anti-Filipino Riot, November 8–11,
Yakima Valley • 1927 –
Columbine Mine Massacre, November 21,
Serene, Colorado • 1929 –
Loray Mill strike,
Gastonia,
North Carolina 1930–1939 • 1930 –
Watsonville Riots, January 19–23,
Watsonville, California (race riots) • 1931 –
Battle of Evarts, May 5,
Harlan County, Kentucky (labor massacre) • 1931 –
The Housing Protests, August 3,
Chicago, Illinois • 1931 –
Iowa Cow War, September 21–25,
Cedar County, Iowa • 1931 –
Hawaii unrest, caused by
Massie Trial—murder following an alleged rape • 1931–1932
Harlan County War,
Harlan County, Kentucky, Part of the
Coal Wars and resulted in at least 5 total deaths. • 1932 –
Bonus Army March, Spring/Summer 1932,
Washington, D.C. • 1932 –
Ford Hunger March, March 7, 3,000 unemployed workers march on Ford Motors, five are killed.
River Rouge plant,
Dearborn, Michigan • 1934 –
Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934,
Minneapolis, Minnesota • 1934 –
Auto-Lite strike, April 4 – June 3, the "Battle of Toledo" riot,
Toledo, Ohio • 1934 –
1934 West Coast Longshore Strike, May 9 – October 12,
San Francisco Bay Area,
California;
Portland, Oregon;
Seattle, Washington • 1934 –
Textile workers strike (1934) • 1934 – Detroit World Series riot, October 10,
Detroit, Michigan • 1964 –
Dixmoor race riot, August 15–17,
Dixmoor, Illinois • 1964 –
Philadelphia 1964 race riot, August 28–30, Philadelphia • 1965 –
Selma to Montgomery marches, March 7–25, Alabama • 1965 –
Watts riots, August 11–17, Los Angeles, California (part of the
ghetto riots) • 1966 –
Division Street riots, June 12–14, Humboldt Park, Chicago, Illinois (Puerto Rican riots) • 1966 –
Omaha riot of 1966, July 2,
Omaha, Nebraska (race riots) • 1966 –
1966 Chicago West-Side riots, July 12–15, Chicago, Illinois • 1966 –
1966 New York City riots, July 14–20,
New York City,
New York, A riot broke out following a dispute between white and black youths. One person was killed and 53 injured. There were three arson incidents and 82 arrests. • 1966 –
Marquette Park housing march, August 5, Chicago, Illinois • 1966 –
Waukegan riot, August 27,
Waukegan, Illinois • 1966 –
Benton Harbor riots, August 30 – September 4,
Benton Harbor, Michigan • 1966 –
1966 Dayton race riot, September 1,
Dayton, Ohio • 1966 – Summerhill and Vine City Riots, September 6–8
Atlanta, Georgia • 1966 –
Hunters Point social uprising, September 27 – October 1
San Francisco, California • 1966 –
1966 Clearwater riot, October 31,
Clearwater, Florida • 1966 –
Sunset Strip curfew riots, November 12, various other flareups, basis for the song "
For What It's Worth (Buffalo Springfield song)",
West Hollywood, California • 1967 –
Long Hot Summer of 1967 refers to a year in which 159 race riots, almost all African-American, erupted across the United States, including: • 1967 –
1967 Louisville riots, April 11–mid-June,
Louisville, Kentucky • 1967 –
1967 Boston riot, June 2–5,
Boston,
Massachusetts • 1967 –
1967 Clearwater riot, June 3 Clearwater, Florida, a riot started after a white police officer tried to assist an African-American officer break up a fight between two African-American men. • 1967 –
Avondale riots, June 12–15,
Cincinnati,
Ohio • 1967 –
1967 Maywood riots, June 14,
Maywood, Illinois, riots began after young African-American men and women demanded a swimming pool in the historically neglected neighborhood. • 1967 –
1967 Kansas City riot, July 9,
Kansas City, Missouri, 1 person was injured and 11 arrested. • 1967 –
Cairo riot, July 17,
Cairo, Illinois • 1967 –
1967 New Brunswick riots, July 17–18,
New Brunswick, New Jersey, riots began after a group of roughly 200 African-American teenagers protested against unfair treatment in local public schools, unemployment, the closing of a social club and long-term police brutality. Protesters looted stores in the city's business district, specifically targeting those considered to treat black customers unfairly. By 2 AM 32 adults and 18 juveniles, all of them black, had been arrested for looting, possession of stolen property, carrying weapons, and loitering. In response, Mayor Patricia Sheehan declared a 10 PM curfew. On June 18, a crowd of 200 people gathered where 75 heavily armed police officers were barricading a route to the downtown business district. The protesters promised to disperse once the police were removed, and they did. • 1967 –
1967 Minneapolis riot, July 19–24,
Minneapolis, Minnesota • 1967 –
1967 Birmingham riot, July 23,
Birmingham, Alabama, 11 people were injured and over 70 arrested with the National Guard being called in to assist the police. • 1967 –
1967 Saginaw riot, July 26,
Saginaw, Michigan • 1967 –
1967 Albany riot,
Albany, New York, July 27–28, riots began in response to a rumor of two deaths at the hands of the police. Forty-one people were arrested and there were 3 arson cases. • 1967 –
1967 Century City demonstration, anti-war protesters in Los Angeles are beaten by police. • 1968 –
Orangeburg Massacre, S.C. State Univ., February 8,
Orangeburg, South Carolina • 1968 –
Memphis sanitation strike riot, March 28,
Memphis, Tennessee • 1968 –
Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., April 4,
Memphis, Tennessee, precipitates all April 4–14 riots, including: • 1968 –
1968 Detroit riot, April 4–5,
Detroit, Michigan • 1968 –
1968 New York City riots, April 4–5,
New York City, New York • 1968 –
1968 Tallahassee riots, April 4–7,
Tallahassee, Florida, One person killed and five injured. • 1968 –
Akron riot, July 17–23,
Akron, Ohio • 1968 –
Glenville Shootout, July 23–28,
Cleveland, Ohio • 1968 –
1968 Richmond riots. July 25–30,
Richmond, California riots broke out after a 15-year-old black male suspect in a car robbery was shot by police. Seventeen arson cases were reported and 564 people arrested. • 1968 –
1968 Miami riot, August 7–8,
Miami, Florida • 1968 –
1968 Democratic National Convention protests, including the
police riots of August 27–28,
Chicago, Illinois • 1969 –
Zip to Zap riot, May 9–11, Zap,
North Dakota • 1969 –
People's Park Riots, May,
Berkeley, California • 1969 –
1969 Greensboro uprising, May 21–25,
Greensboro, North Carolina • 1969 –
Cairo disorders, May–December,
Cairo, Illinois • 1969 –
Stonewall riots, June 28 – July 2,
New York City, New York • 1969 –
1969 York Race Riot, July 17–24,
York, Pennsylvania • 1969 –
Days of Rage, October 8–11,
Weathermen riot in Chicago, Illinois • 1969 –
Altamont Free Concert, December 6, concert turned near-riot in the
Altamont Speedway outside of
Tracy, California.
1970—1979 • 1970 —
San Francisco Police Department Park Station bombing, February 16,
San Francisco, CA • 1970 — University of Puerto Rico riot, March 4—11, at least
one killed, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico • 1970 — Coachella Riots, April 5,
Coachella, California, started after a
Brown Beret member disrupted a dance by getting on the stage and calling for "action." Three people were arrested, four police officers injured and the mayor's house was burned down. • 1970 —
Student strike of 1970, May 1970 • 1970 —
Kent State riots/shootings, May 4, 1970, four killed, Kent, Ohio • 1970 —
New Haven Green Disorders, Yale University, May 1970, New Haven, Connecticut • 1970 —
Augusta Riot, May 11—13,
Augusta, Georgia • 1970 —
Hard Hat Riot, Wall Street, May 8, New York City • 1970 —
Jackson State killings, May 14—15, two killed, Jackson, Mississippi • 1970 —
Stoneman Meadow Riot, July 4, 1970,
Yosemite, California • 1970 —
1970 Asbury Park race riots, July 4—10,
Asbury Park, New Jersey • 1970 —
1970 Memorial Park riot, August 24—27, Royal Oak, Michigan • 1970 —
Sterling Hall bombing, Univ. of Wisc., August 24, one killed, Madison, Wisconsin • 1970 —
Chicano Moratorium riot, August 29, Los Angeles, California • 1971 —
Wilmington riot 1971, February 9, Wilmington, North Carolina • 1971 —
May Day protests 1971, May 3, Washington, D.C. • 1971 – Newton, MA Draft Board Protest 1971 May 3, – 55 arrested • 1971 – Newton, MA Charges against the 55 Arrested at May 3 Draft Board Protest dismissed by Judge Francis Larkin. Protest action was determined by Court to be Civil Disturbance protected as Free Speech by the First Amendment of US Constitution. • 1971 — Albuquerque riots, June 13—15,
Albuquerque, New Mexico. The
Albuquerque Police Department arrested several
Chicano teens for
underage drinking at Albuquerque's
Roosevelt Park. Several hundred people in the park for a concert viewed this as motivated by
anti-Spanish sentiment, and the next 30 hours would be marked by violent conflict. Police fired their guns and deployed
tear gas as the crowd overturned a
police car and set an
Albuquerque Public Schools administration building on fire, after which APD officers retreated until reinforcement from the
New Mexico National Guard arrived. Some 600 people were arrested, dozens injured and approximately $3,000,000 of damage to nearby buildings assessed. The group 'Las
Gorras Negras por La Justicia' claimed some involvement. • 1971 — Colonia riots, July 18—19,
Colonia, California 38 people arrested. • 1971 —
Camden riots, August 1971,
Camden, New Jersey • 1971 — Santa Fe Fiestas riot, September 7, 1971,
Santa Fe, New Mexico, civil disturbances and vandalism during annual Fiestas event. Police fired tear gas into crowd. One hundred National Guardsman were called to protect buildings and keep order. 23 people were arrested. • 1971 —
Attica Prison uprising, September 9—13, at least 39 killed, Attica, New York • 1972 — Pharr riots, February 6,
Pharr, Texas started after police attacked a crowd protesting police brutality and killed one person. • 1972 — Youth riot, April 23,
Santa Paula, California 35–40 arrests. • 1972 — Gainesville riots, May 12, 1972, Gainesville, Florida, anti-war protesters and police clashed for several hours. One hundred and seventy-four people were arrested and 24 injured. • 1972 — Puerto Rican riot, July 1972, Boston, Massachusetts • 1973 —
Wounded Knee incident, February 27 — May 8, Wounded Knee, South Dakota • 1973 —
Shooting of Clifford Glover Riot, April 23, Rioting broke out in
South Jamaica, Queens after an undercover police officer shot and killed a 10-year-old African-American youth.
New York, New York • 1974 —
SLA Shootout, May 17, Los Angeles, California • 1974 —
Ten-Cent Beer Night, June 4, Cleveland, Ohio • 1974 —
Baltimore police strike, July, Baltimore, Maryland • 1974 —
Boston desegregation busing riots: at least 40 riots throughout Boston, Massachusetts from September 1974 through September 1976. • 1975 —
Livernois–Fenkell riot, July 1975, Detroit, Michigan • 1976 —
Escambia High School riots, February 5, Pensacola, Florida • 1976 —
Marquette Park unrest, June—August, Chicago, Illinois • 1977 —
Humboldt Park riot, June 5—6, Chicago, Illinois • 1977 —
New York City Blackout riot 1977, July 13—14,
New York City, New York • 1978 —
Fireman Strike Arson, July 2, 1978, Memphis, TN, over 200 arsons occurred in
Memphis after the city's policemen and firefighters went on strike • 1978 —
Moody Park riot, May 5, 1978, Houston, Texas • 1979 —
Herman Hill riot, April 15, Wichita, Kansas • 1979 —
White Night riots, May 1979, San Francisco, California • 1979 —
Decatur, Alabama riot, May 26,
Ku Klux Klan-led attack on civil rights marchers results in 3 people being shot and several more wounded • 1979 —
Levittown Gas Riot, June 23—24, Thousands rioted in response to increased gasoline prices in the U.S., 198 arrested, 44 police and 200 rioters injured. Gas stations were damaged and cars set on fire,
Levittown, Pennsylvania • 1979 —
Greensboro massacre, November 3, Shootout between members of the
Communist Workers Party and members of the
Ku Klux Klan and the
American Nazi Party. Greensboro, North Carolina.
1980–1989 • 1980 –
Idabel riot, January, Idabel Oklahoma, Two people are killed in rioting following the killing of a 15-year-old black youth • 1980 –
New Mexico State Penitentiary riot, February 2–3, Santa Fe, New Mexico • 1980 – 21st street riot, April 22, Wichita, KS, Black rioters battled police and attacked passing motorists after an alleged incident of police brutality against a black man. Over 60 people were injured and 24 people were arrested. • 1980 –
Wrightsville, Georgia unrest, April–May, extended period of racially motivated brawls, shootings and arsons between Blacks and Whites, • 1980 –
Miami riot 1980, May 17–19, Miami, Florida • 1980 – Chattanooga riots, July, Chattanooga, Tennessee, rioting in Chattanooga after two
Ku Klux Klansmen were acquitted of shooting four black women by an
all-white jury. 8 police officers were shot. • 1982 –
1982 Overtown riot, December 28, Miami, Florida • 1984 –
Tower Hill riot,
Lawrence, Massachusetts • 1988 –
Tompkins Square Park riot, August 6–7,
New York City • 1988 –
Cedar Grove, Shreveport, Louisiana • 1989 –
1989 Miami riot, January 16–18, four days of rioting in the Overtown neighborhood began after a police officer shot a man driving a motorcycle who was fleeing another officer. He crashed and his passenger was also killed.
Miami, Florida • 1989 – 1989 Tampa riot, February 1,
Tampa, Florida a riot began following the death of an African American man while in police custody. The disturbance lasted for an hour with 150 youths participating. A grocery store was looted and set on fire. Four police officers, including one involved in the initial arrest, were injured.
1990–1999 • 1990 –
1990 Wynwood riots, December 3, 1990, Miami, Florida, Started after the acquittal of police officers who had beaten a drug dealer named Leonardo Mercado to death in December 1988. • 1991 –
1991 Washington, DC riot, Mount Pleasant riot, May 5–9, Washington, D.C. • 1991 –
Overtown, Miami, June 28, Riot in the heavily Black section of Overtown against Cuban Americans.
Miami, Florida • 1991 –
Crown Heights riot, August 1991, Brooklyn, New York • 1992 –
1992 Los Angeles riots, April–May 1992,
Los Angeles, California • 1992 –
West Las Vegas riots, April 29,
Las Vegas, Nevada • 1992 –
1992 Washington Heights riots, July 4–7,
Manhattan, New York, Dominican community • 1992 –
Patrolmen's Benevolent Association Riot, September 16, New York city, police riot against proposal for civilian oversight • 1996 –
St. Petersburg, Florida Riot 1996, October 1996, St. Petersburg, Florida • 1997 –
North Hollywood shootout, February 1997, Los Angeles, California • 1999 –
Michigan State University student riot, April 1999, East Lansing, Michigan • 1999 –
Woodstock '99 music festival incident, July 1999, Rome, New York • 1999 –
WTO Meeting of 1999, "The Battle of Seattle", November 1999, Seattle, Washington ==21st century==