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Race Riots
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Riots and Rebellions
Source: Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass
Word Count: 9390 Includes: Seeds of Rebellion | Increased Action and Reaction | Liberty and the American Revolution | Malcontent in Both the South and North | Slave Insurrections and Racial Riots | Antislavery and Proslavery Violence | Resistance to the Fugitive Slave Law | Harpers Ferry Raid | Conscription, Antiwar Sentiment, and the Draft Riots | Reconstruction-Era Disturbances | Bibliography | Bibliography[This entry contains two subentries dealing with African American uprisings against slavery and discrimination from 1619 to 1895. The first article provides a discussion of the causes, responses, and importance of race-related riots from the colonial period to 1830, while the second article discusses the topic from the antebellum period to 1895, including the mobbing of abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass.] After examining African American uprisings in America prior to 1800, a modern historian remarked, “It almost seems as if news of these incidents was suppressed.” As such, one might conclude that the frequency of such upheavals was even greater than would be indicated by the considerable number of known events. Riots among newly captive slaves first took place in Africa itself and ...
Read full articleRace Riots in the United States
Source: Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition
Word Count: 1983 Includes: Antebellum Period and Civil War | Reconstruction and Jim Crow | Migration and World Wars | Civil Rights Era and Beyond | BibliographyEvents of mass urban violence that have been both a means of white repression of blacks and an expression of black frustration at that repression. The term race riot has been used to describe a variety of acts of collective racial violence in American history. Not all episodes of mass urban violence have been racial in character; such violence has also been driven by antagonisms between workers and employers and by religious animosity. Most riots in the United States, however, have had their roots in racial division.During the antebellum period and the American Civil War (1861–1865), race riots erupted in numerous Northern cities. Antiblack and antiabolitionist riots took place in cities such as Cincinnati, Ohio, and Utica, New York. Racial hostilities sharpened with an ...
Read full articleRace Riots of 1919
Source: Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition
Word Count: 143 Includes: For information onViolence by whites against blacks in the United States after World War I, climaxing during the so-called Red Summer of 1919 with riots in more than twenty-five cities. Causes of the riots: See Civil Rights Movement; Great Migration; Labor Unions in the United States; Race Riots in the United States.Riots in Chicago, Illinois: See Binga, Jesse; Chicago Riot of 1919; Chicago, Illinois.Riot in Arkansas: See Elaine, Arkansas, Race Riot of 1919; Jones, Scipio A(fricanus).Reactions to the riots: See African Blood Brotherhood; Bruce, John Edward; Great Migration: An Interpretation; Johnson, Charles Spurgeon. ...
Read full articleRiots, Urban
Source: The Oxford Companion to United States History
Word Count: 1706 Includes: Colonial Era through the Civil War. | Gilded Age to Late Twentiety Century.From the Colonial Era to the late twentieth century, groups of people in American cities have expressed their grievances or enforced their collective will through the use or threat of violence. The nature and context of such rioting, however, has changed over time. Colonial riots usually centered on community regulation. In 1710, 1713, and 1729, for example, Bostonians rioted to protest the export of bread that would increase local prices. New Yorkers rioted in 1754 over an unfavorable exchange rate between colonial and British currency that added to the cost of bread and other daily necessities. These disturbances usually did not involve direct physical assaults, but rather street demonstrations and sometimes an attack on property such as a warehouse.Opposition ...
Read full article‘Race’ riots, 1919
Source: Oxford Companion to Black British History
Word Count: 1236The so‐called ‘race’ riots of 1919 , which broke out in Glasgow , South Shields , Salford, Hull, London , Liverpool , and the South Wales ports of Cardiff , Newport, and Barry, were some of the most serious and sustained incidents of public disorder in 20th‐century Britain. During the 1919 riots, white working‐class crowds targeted black sailors, their families, and black‐owned businesses and property in these substantial British ports. Other black people, including military personnel and skilled workers, also came under attack from white crowds. One of the chief sources of violent confrontation arose due to a colour bar in hiring procedures favoured by the sailors' trade unions representing (white) workers in the merchant shipping industry. This was seen as a way of keeping up wage rates and employment levels for ...
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