List of Race Riots - United States - Civil Rights and Black Power Movement's Period: 1955 - 1977

1977

  • 1958: Battle of Hayes Pond (Maxton, North Carolina)
  • 1963: Cambridge riot of 1963 (Cambridge, Maryland)
  • 1964: Harlem Riot of 1964 (Harlem neighborhood, Manhattan, New York City)
  • 1964: Rochester riot (Rochester, New York)
  • 1964: Philadelphia 1964 race riot (North Philadelphia section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
  • 1965: Watts Riots (Watts neighborhood, Los Angeles, California)
  • 1966: Division Street Riots (Humboldt Park neighborhood, Chicago, Illinois)
  • 1966: Hough Riots (Hough community, Cleveland, Ohio)
  • 1966: North Omaha, Nebraska (North Omaha community, Omaha, Nebraska)
  • Long Hot Summer of 1967
    • 1967: Tampa Riots, (Tampa, Florida)
    • 1967: Texas Southern University Riot (Houston, Texas)
    • 1967: 1967 Detroit riot (Detroit, Michigan)
    • 1967: Buffalo riot (Buffalo, New York)
    • 1967: Milwaukee Riot (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
    • 1967: Minneapolis North Side Riots (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
    • 1967: 1967 Newark riots (Newark, New Jersey)
    • 1967: Plainfield riots (Plainfield, New Jersey)
  • Protests of 1968
  • 1968: Orangeburg massacre (Orangeburg, South Carolina)
  • 1968: Nationwide riots following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
    • 1968: Baltimore riot of 1968 (Baltimore, Maryland)
    • 1968: Chicago (April 1968) (Chicago, Illinois)
    • 1968: Louisville riots of 1968 (Louisville, Kentucky)
    • 1968: 1968 Washington, D.C. riots (Washington, D.C.)
  • 1969: 1969 York Race Riot (York, Pennsylvania)
  • 1970: May 11th Race Riot (Augusta, Georgia)
  • 1970: Jackson State killings (Jackson, Mississippi)
  • 1971: Camden Riots (Camden, New Jersey)
  • 1972-1977: Escambia High School riots (Pensacola, Florida)
  • 1975: Chaffey High School Race Riot enhanced by local sniper (Ontario, California)
  • 1978: Houston's Moody Park on the first anniversary of Joe Campos Torres death.

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