by FikesRobert | Nov 30, 2017 | African American History, People
The shooting death of John Crawford III, a twenty-two-year-old African-American man, by Beavercreek, Ohio police officer Sean Williams at a Walmart store in Beavercreek was another death that added to the national debate about the shooting deaths of unarmed Black men...
by Shontoria Pratt | Nov 28, 2017 | African American History, Events
The 1964 Jersey City, New Jersey uprising began August 2 and lasted three nights until the morning of August 5. The uprising began in the predominantly black neighborhood of Lafayette in Jersey City after police arrested 26-year-old African American Delores Shannon...
by SandersSheren | Nov 27, 2017 | African American History, Events
The Chicago Race Riot of 1964 was actually centered in Dixmoor, Illinois, a suburb southwest of the city. By 1960 Dixmoor had less than 4,000 residents. Of that population over 50 percent of its residents were black. A large portion of Dixmoor’s black population were...
by LewisJames | Nov 27, 2017 | African American History, People
Reginald Doucet, a 25-year-old California native, was shot and killed on January 14, 2011, during an altercation with Officer Aaron Goff of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). Goff, a rookie officer who had been on the force for only 17 months, was found...
by Shontoria Pratt | Nov 27, 2017 | African American History, Events
Annin Street in 1916, focal point of the South Philadelphia Riot in 1918 Image Ownership: Public domain The 1918 Race Riot in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania began on July 26, 1918, two days after an African American woman, Adella Bond, moved into her new home in a...
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