by Shontoria Pratt | Nov 22, 2017 | African American History, Events
The 1900 New York City, New York Race Riot began following an incident between Arthur J. Harris, a black man, and a white undercover police officer, Robert J. Thorpe, outside the apartment of Harris and his girlfriend May Enoch in the Tenderloin section of New York...
by Shontoria Pratt | Nov 17, 2017 | African American History, Events
The 1899 Newburg, New York Race Riot was the culmination of months of racial tension between non-black and black brickyard workers after brickyard owners began hiring black workers to fill labor shortages. Previously, local brickyards had hired Irish workers,...
by StephanieChristensen | Nov 12, 2017 | African American History, Events
The Charlotte Riot of 2016 was a protest that lasted for three days and came in the wake of the Keith Lamont Scott shooting. Beginning on September 20, the riot resulted in violence with one protester killed and numerous injured police officers. On September 20, a...
by MikellRobert | Nov 11, 2017 | African American History, Businesses and Institutions
There was much racial unrest in New York City, New York in the early 1800s as immigrants from across Europe and migrants from neighboring states arrived in the city. Slavery was abolished in New York state in 1827. Although black New Yorkers were free, many of their...
by MikellRobert | Nov 10, 2017 | African American History, Events
The New York City Draft Riots remain today the single largest urban civilian insurrection in United States history. By the start of the Civil War in April 1861, New York City, New York Mayor Fernando Wood called for the city to secede from the Union and join the...
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