"I want my country back" = smokescreen for racism

[olger]

Well maybe - also being outnumbered 7-1 may have played a part.

ps. I thought riots are a form of violence.

[lazarus]

ps. I thought riots are a form of violence.

Do you think the riots after Kings death were about slavery or were the LA riots about your Grandfather?

And what makes you think black people are mad with you.

[lazarus]

Well maybe - also being outnumbered 7-1 may have played a part.

So I guess King would have turned to bombs and bullets if the odd were a little more even. Interesting angle on the civil rights movement.

[there buster]

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the civil rights movement was a non-violent one

on which planet?

[Woody]

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the civil rights movement was a non-violent one

on which planet?

teehe

[olger]

Originally Posted By: olger

ps. I thought riots are a form of violence.

Do you think the riots after Kings death were about slavery or were the LA riots about your Grandfather?

And what makes you think black people are mad with you.

My Grandfather was old Order Amish. Try again.

[lazarus]

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the civil rights movement was a non-violent one

on which planet?

I know you're thinking about the white reaction but i'm thinking about the civil rights movement.

[there buster]

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I know you're thinking about the white reaction but i'm thinking about the civil rights movement.

Another case where your "knowledge" is incorrect. I was thinking about black riots in Detroit, in Watts, in Boston, Chicago. Where firefighters trying to put out fires in black neighborhoods were shot at.

And these in the name of civil rights.

Burn, baby, burn! King advocated non-violence, many others did not.

[SivartM]

More people are cruel than are kind.

Down with people!

[lazarus]

Another case where your "knowledge" is incorrect.

Why post so arrogantly? I thought you had grown out of that.

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And these in the name of civil rights.

Many criminal and negative things were done in the name of civil rights. Who can deny that.

The Civil Rights Movement was made up of groups such as NAACP, Student non-violent Coordinating committee, Congress for racial equality and Southern Leadership Conference who all advocated non-violence. Most understand the Civil Rights movement to be a non-violent movement. Its actions and philosophy is the most celebrated and embraced in the black community today.

[John317]

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lazarus:

Many criminal and negative things were done in the name of civil rights. Who can deny that.

The Civil Rights Movement was made up of groups such as NAACP, Student non-violent Coordinating committee, Congress for racial equality and Southern Leadership Conference who all advocated non-violence. Most understand the Civil rights movement to be a non-violent. Its actions and philosophy is the most celebrated and embraced in the black community today.

You're right, lazarus.

It's also true, of course, that there was some violence during those years, but that was not due to the actions and decisions of people leading out in the Civil Rights Movement.

Malcolm X was also a leader during that time, as were the Black Panthers, but they weren't part of the Civil Rights Movement per se. Malcolm X and MLK didn't agree on tactics, but fortunately, non-violence and Christian values predominated. If the movement had turned violent, there may well have have been a tragic blood-bath. The Watts riots in the summer of '65 were bad enough, but it could have spread to many other cities without the leadership of people like Martin Luther King and Ralph Abernathy.

[lazarus]

The black power movement certainly didn't embrace non-violence but they were in the minority and most of the time served to incite violence rather than lead a violent struggle themselves.

Much of Malcolm X' logic as regards violence was compelling but we can be thankful that vast majority embraced King.

[John317]

It's ironic that the FBI thought that MLK was communist while actually he was working to keep the Civil Rights Movement from going violent the way the communists wanted it to go.

[Gerr]

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the civil rights movement was a non-violent one

on which planet?

Oh yes, it was violent in many places, I agree. But as I recall, the violence was done to the civil right advocates. MLK was assassinated. How many others were murdered? How many churches bombed? And who did the bombing? LAW enforcement officers using dogs to break up the marchers! Yeah, indeed, there was a lot of violence done TO and not by the civil rights advocates!

[Gerr]

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I know you're thinking about the white reaction but i'm thinking about the civil rights movement.

Another case where your "knowledge" is incorrect. I was thinking about black riots in Detroit, in Watts, in Boston, Chicago. Where firefighters trying to put out fires in black neighborhoods were shot at.

And these in the name of civil rights.

Burn, baby, burn! King advocated non-violence, many others did not.

Actually, what is amazing to me is that there has not been more violence from the Blacks than what had been seen. I am a Christian, but I even have a hard time controlling my anger reading and seeing the injustices and indignities inflicted by racists. Thank God that the civil rights mainstream movement followed the non-violent path.

[there buster]

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there was some violence during those years,

# 1964 - New York City 1964 race riot, July 18–23 (New York City, United States)

# 1964 - Rochester 1964 race riot, July 24–25 (Rochester, New York, United States)

# 1964 - Jersey City 1964 race riot, August 2–4 (Jersey City, New Jersey, United States)

# 1964 - Paterson 1964 race riot, August 11–13 (Paterson, New Jersey, United States)

# 1964 - Elizabeth 1964 race riot, August 11–13 (Elizabeth, New Jersey, United States)

# 1964 - Chicago 1964 race riot, August 16–17

# 1964 - Philadelphia 1964 race riot August 28–30

# 1965 - Watts Riot, August 1965, (Los Angeles, California, United States)

# 1966 - Easter Monday Riot, April 1966 (Glen Echo Amusement Park, Glen Echo, Maryland, US)

# 1966 - Fire Hydrant Riots, July 1966 (Chicago, Illinois, United States)

# 1966 - Hough Riots, July 1966 (Cleveland, Ohio, United States)

# 1966 - Hunter's Point Riot (San Francisco, California, United States)

# 1966 - Compton's Cafeteria Riot, August 1966 (San Francisco, California, United States)

# 1966 - Waukegan Riot, August 27 (Waukegan, Illinois, United States)

# 1966 - Benton Harbor Riot, August-September 1966 (Benton Harbor, Michigan, United States)

# 1966 - Atlanta riot of 1966, Sep. 6 (Atlanta, Georgia, United States)

# 1966 - Sunset Strip curfew riots (Los Angeles, California, United States)

# 1967 - Roxbury riot, June 2 (Boston, Massachusetts, United States)

# 1967 - Tampa Riots of 1967, June 1967 (Tampa, Florida, United States)

# 1967 - Buffalo riot of 1967, June 27 (Buffalo, New York, United States)

# 1967 - 1967 Newark riots, July 12–18, 1967 (Newark, New Jersey, United States)

# 1967 - 1967 Plainfield riots, July 14–20, 1967 (Plainfield, New Jersey, United States)

# 1967 - Cairo riot, July 17 (Cairo, Illinois, United States)

# 1967 - Durham riot, July 19 (Durham, North Carolina, United States)

# 1967 - Minneapolis North Side Riots, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota, July 19–20.

# 1967 - Memphis riot, July 20 (Memphis, Tenn., United States)

# 1967 - Cambridge riot of 1967, July 1967, a.k.a H. Rap Brown riot (Cambridge, Maryland, United States)

# 1967 - 12th Street Riot, July 23–29, 1967 (Detroit, Michigan, United States)

# 1967 - Milwaukee riot (July 30 - August 2, 1967), (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States)

# 1968 - Orangeburg, South Carolina riot and Orangeburg Massacre, (Orangeburg, South Carolina), United States)

# 1968 - 1968 Washington, D.C. riots, April 1968 (Washington, D.C., United States)

# 1968 - Baltimore riot of 1968, April 6–12 (Baltimore, Maryland, United States)

# 1968 - Chicago riot of 1968, a.k.a West Side Riots, April 7–14 (Chicago, Illinois, United States)

# 1968 - Wilmington Riot of 1968 April 1968 (Wilmington, Delaware, (United States)

# 1968 - Kansas City riot of 1968, April 1968 (Kansas City, Missouri, United States)

# 1968 - Salisbury riot, May 18–20, (Salisbury, Maryland, United States)

# 1968 - Louisville riots of 1968, May 27, (Louisville, Kentucky, United States)

# 1968 - Glenville Shootout, (Cleveland, Ohio, United States)

# 1969 - Stonewall Riots, June 1969, (New York City, New York, United States)

# 1969 - York Race Riot, July 1969, (York, Pennsylvania, United States)

# 1969 - Days of Rage, Oct. 1969, (Chicago, Illinois, United States)

[Dr. Shane]

Well, I for one am glad that an african american invented peanut butter. In our home, we really like peanut butter.

Wasn't the real McCoy black?

[Dr. Shane]

And the Mayan's invented chocolate. So people that like to mix chocolate and peanut butter have to thank both the african americans and the Hispanics from Central America. Mmmmmmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmmmmmm, I love peanut butter and chocolate.

[GreatLakesGramma]

I don't like peanut butter, but peanut butter mixed with chocolate is something else altogether, a heavenly blend.

[Gerr]

Last hired, first fired.

Always kept in the lowest position no matter how more qualified you are than the white person.

Not allowed to vote.

Not allowed to buy a decent house in the place of your choice.

Not allowed to attend a good school of your choice.

Can be battered or hanged for disrespecting a white man or accused of making a pass at a white woman.

You've worked hard all day. You're dead tired. You get in a bus. You sit down hoping for some respite. Then you are forced to give up you seat to a white man and then have to stand.

Looked down on. Treated as less than human. Lynched. Hanged. Terrorized.

Etc., etc., etc.

AND YOU WONDER WHY THOSE THINGS HAPPENED?

Again, the wonder to me is that there had not been more bloodshed and that the whole country did not go up in flames.

Again, those violent riots were the acts of angry men, not the tactics espoused by the civil rights mainstream movement.

[Woody]

Well, I for one am glad that an african american invented peanut butter. In our home, we really like peanut butter.

Well .... I for one have never been afraid of hiding any black heritage of mine ... if any.

[OzarkWoman]

I think the very sad thing about the blacks that did so well for themselves back in those days is that it proves that even during the worst of times minorities can and do great things, but so many of them these days would rather sit around and play the victim instead of doing the great things that so many could do. So many of the blacks in the history of this country were really great men. How well would any of us have done under similar circumstances? Probably not all that well at all, especially the ones who keep the victim hood [censored] up constantly. Here is an example of what I am talking about when it comes to blacks back in the days of the Civil War:

Joseph Hayne Rainey (June 21, 1832 – August 1, 1887) was the first African American person to serve in the United States House of Representatives and the second black person to serve in the United States Congress (U.S. Senator Hiram Revels was the first) and the first African American to be directly elected to Congress (Revels was appointed).

Rainey was born in Georgetown, South Carolina. His parents were both slaves, but his father, Edward, had a successful business as a barber, enabling him to purchase his family's freedom shortly after Joseph Rainey's birth. As an adult, Rainey followed his father by becoming a barber. In 1861, with the outbreak of the American Civil War, Rainey was drafted by the Confederate government to work on fortifications in Charleston, South Carolina, as well as to work as a laborer on blockade runner ships. In 1862, he and his wife were able to escape to Bermuda. They settled in the town of St. George, Bermuda, where Rainey worked as a barber, while his wife established herself as a successful dressmaker. In 1865, the couple moved to the town of Hamilton when an outbreak of yellow fever threatened St. George. Rainey worked at the Hamilton Hotel as a barber and a bartender, while becoming a respected member of the community.

In 1866, following the war's end, Rainey returned to South Carolina. He quickly involved himself in politics, joining the executive committee of the state Republican Party. In 1868, he was a delegate to the convention which wrote the state's new constitution. In 1870, Rainey was elected to the State Senate of South Carolina. Later that year, he was elected to fill a vacancy in the Forty-first Congress of the United States as a Republican. This vacancy had been created when the previous incumbent, Benjamin F. Whittemore, was censured by the House for corruption and subsequently re-elected, after which the House refused to seat him. Rainey was seated December 12, 1870 and was re-elected to Congress four times; he served until March 3, 1879, which made him the longest-serving black Congressman prior to William L. Dawson in the 1950s.

In 1874 Rainey purchased a "Summer home" in Windsor, Connecticut. A representative of South Carolina, Rainey could not list Windsor as a primary residence, even though he did move his family there and was an active member of the First Church of Windsor. The "Joseph Rainey House", a c.1830 Greek Revival located at 299 Palisado Avenue (currently a private residence) is a featured stop on Connecticut's Freedom Trail.

During his term in Congress, Rainey focused on supporting legislation to protect the civil rights of Southern blacks. This pursuit eventually proved unsuccessful, with the end of Reconstruction effectively meaning that the black electorate lost all political power. In May of 1874, Rainey became the first African-American to preside over the House of Representatives as Speaker pro tempore. [1] In 1876, Rainey won re-election against Democratic candidate John Smythe Richardson. Richardson, however challenged the result as invalid on the grounds of intimidation by federal soldiers and black militias. Two years later, as the opponents of Reconstruction solidified their control over South Carolina politics, Rainey was defeated in a second contest with Richardson.

After leaving Congress, Joseph Rainey was appointed internal-revenue agent of South Carolina. He held this position for two years,after which he began a career in private commerce. Rainey retired in 1886 and died the following year in Georgetown, the city in which he was born.

Joseph Rainey

[OzarkWoman]

Well, I for one am glad that an african american invented peanut butter. In our home, we really like peanut butter.

Wasn't the real McCoy black?

My grandmother was a Hatfield!!! LOL

[lazarus]

I decided to take the time to take a quick look at some of the incidents mentioned.

Then I thought "surely the dude didn't just go to wiki and type riots and copy and paste. Of course not."

I discovered some interesting things.

The year 1967 was by far the worst year of racial disturbances in American history. Serious riots occurred in Newark and Detroit, leaving twenty-six and forty dead, respectively. Most of these deaths were at the hands of white policemen who valued white property over black lives.

It's easy to think that all these niggers were resorting to violence in their quest for civil rights. At times there was gratuitous violence but most often than not a teen had been killed, a mother brutalized, innocents murdered. The rioting in many cities was not a movement or a philosophy it was a reaction against the brutality and the injustice perpetrated by the white majority. The beautiful thing is that the blessed majority of African Americans were able to rise above and pray, demonstrate and campaign peacefully.

It was interesting to read about the first Transgender riot that was included.

I'm not sure how many black folk were at the Stonewall (gay) Riot

The Sunset Blvd (Hippie) riot must have been cool.

You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows riot was interesting

Feast your eyes on rioting through the ages. Do humans do anything else besides riot?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_riots

# 1964 - New York City 1964 race riot, July 18–23 (New York City, United States)

The Harlem Riot of 1964 (New York City Race Riot [1]) was a racial confrontation between residents in several city boroughs and the New York City Police after an African American teenager had been shot dead by an off-duty police officer.

The teenage summer student from Robert F. Wagner Junior High school had been engaged in horseplay with other boys and a building superintendent called Patrick Lynch. When the man sprayed the boys with a hose, Powell had chased him back into his building. At this point Lt Gilligan intervened firing his service revolver twice at the boy.

As news spread of the killing, a planned rally by CORE shifted from the three civil rights workers missing in Mississippi to the death of Powell and police brutality [1]. But the Progressive Labor Party rapidly took leadership of the situation instead, plastering street poles with signs reading "WANTED FOR MURDER: GILLIGAN THE COP."

1964 - Rochester 1964 race riot, July 24–25 (Rochester, New York, United States)

In the early evening of Friday, July 24, 1964, in Rochester, NY, the Rochester Police Department attempted to arrest a 19 year-old intoxicated black male at a street block party and dance. [1] A member of the group "Mothers Improvement Association of the Eighth Ward" concerned with the male's behavior was the first to contact the Rochester Police Department. [2] The police response to the call included a K-9 Corps dog. Rumors alleging police brutality action against African-Americans spread quickly, and an angry crowd formed on Joseph Avenue and became violent. The riot broke out in two of Rochester, New York's predominantly African-American wards, near the location of the intersection of Nassau Street and Joseph Avenue, as well as downtown.

1964 - Jersey City 1964 race riot, August 2–4 (Jersey City, New Jersey, United States)

The unrest began on the evening of August 28 after a black woman named Odessa Bradford got into an argument with two police officers, one black, Robert Wells, and the other white, John Hoff, after her car stalled at 23rd Street and Columbia Avenue.[2] After Bradford refused to comply with the two officers' orders to move the car, because the car had stalled, and she was unable to drive it, an argument ensued. The officers then tried to physically remove Bradford from the car. She resisted and a large crowd assembled in the area. A man tried to come to Bradford's aid by attacking the police officers at the scene, but he and Bradford were arrested.

# 1964 - Paterson 1964 race riot, August 11–13 (Paterson, New Jersey, United States)

# 1964 - Elizabeth 1964 race riot, August 11–13 (Elizabeth, New Jersey, United States)

# 1964 - Chicago 1964 race riot, August 16–17

# 1964 - Philadelphia 1964 race riot August 28–30

# 1965 - Watts Riot, August 1965, (Los Angeles, California, United States)

The riots began on August 11, 1965, in Watts, a neighborhood in Los Angeles, when Lee Minikus, a California Highway Patrol motorcycle officer, pulled over Marquette Frye, who Minikus believed was intoxicated because of his observed erratic driving. Frye failed to pass sobriety tests, including walking in a straight line and touching his nose, and was arrested soon after. Minikus refused to let Frye's brother, Ronald, drive the car home, and radioed for it to be impounded. As events escalated, a crowd of onlookers steadily grew from dozens to hundreds.[1] The mob became violent, throwing rocks and other objects while shouting at the police officers. A struggle ensued shortly resulting in the arrest of Marquette and Ronald Frye, as well as their mother.

LAPD Police Chief William Parker also fueled the radicalized tension that already threatened to combust, by publicly labeling the people he saw involved in the riots as "monkeys in the zoo"

# 1966 - Easter Monday Riot, April 1966 (Glen Echo Amusement Park, Glen Echo, Maryland, US)

# 1966 - Fire Hydrant Riots, July 1966 (Chicago, Illinois, United States)

# 1966 - Hough Riots, July 1966 (Cleveland, Ohio, United States)

On July 18, 1966, at dusk, someone posted a sign outside the 79'ers bar, situated on the southeast corner of E.79th Street and Hough Avenue. The sign read, "No Water For Niggers". Adding to the volatility of the situation, the bar manager and a hired hand, both white, patrolled the front of the bar, armed with shotguns

# 1966 - Hunter's Point Riot (San Francisco, California, United States)

In June 2003, a small minority of the residents in Benton Harbor rioted for two days when black motorcyclist Terrance Shurn, being chased by a mixed-race police officer, crashed into a building and died. Five[4] homes were set on fire, and about 300 state troopers and law enforcement personnel from neighboring communities came to Benton Harbor to stabilize the situation.[4] Many saw the riots as a sign of frustration from the mostly black youth population.

# 1966 - Compton's Cafeteria Riot, August 1966 (San Francisco, California, United States)

The Compton's Cafeteria Riot occurred in August 1966 in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco. This incident was one of the first recorded transgender riots in United States history, preceding the more famous 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York City by three years

# 1966 - Waukegan Riot, August 27 (Waukegan, Illinois, United States)

# 1966 - Benton Harbor Riot, August-September 1966 (Benton Harbor, Michigan, United States)

# 1966 - Atlanta riot of 1966, Sep. 6 (Atlanta, Georgia, United States)

The flash point was the routine arrest, in a Negro neighborhood, of a twice-convicted Negro car thief suspected of a third offense. When the suspect broke and ran, a policeman dropped him with two shots in the hip and side. The action naturally pulled a crowd, but it was neither large nor truculent. Among the curious onlookers, however, was Carmichael. "We're tired of these racist police killing our people," he shouted. "We're going to be back at 4 o'clock and tear this place up."

# 1966 - Sunset Strip curfew riots (Los Angeles, California, United States)

The Sunset Strip curfew riots, also known as the "hippie riots," were a series of clashes that took place between police and young people on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood, California, beginning in the mid-1960s and continuing through the early 1970s.

# 1967 - Roxbury riot, June 2 (Boston, Massachusetts, United States)

James C. Pinney '67, who was with the mothers, said the police were "wielding billy clubs and shouting 'kill'em'" as they tried to break up the group of demonstrators who had gathered in front of the doors. Other policemen clashed with another group, including Pinney, who attempted to join those in front of the door. A third group of policemen broke through the crowd outside to reach the entrance. In the shuffle, police crashed through the glass doors.

In 20 minutes the police had cleared the building. Many of the demonstrators were beaten and thrown into paddy wagons. They were held for several hours and released on bail. They will stand trial on an assortment of charges June 27.

While the police were clearing the building one of the mothers shouted out of a window, "They're beating our people in here."

# 1967 - Tampa Riots of 1967, June 1967 (Tampa, Florida, United States)

# 1967 - Buffalo riot of 1967, June 27 (Buffalo, New York, United States)

# 1967 - 1967 Newark riots, July 12–18, 1967 (Newark, New Jersey, United States)

# 1967 - 1967 Plainfield riots, July 14–20, 1967 (Plainfield, New Jersey, United States)

# 1967 - Cairo riot, July 17 (Cairo, Illinois, United States)

# 1967 - Durham riot, July 19 (Durham, North Carolina, United States)

# 1967 - Minneapolis North Side Riots, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota, July 19–20.

# 1967 - Memphis riot, July 20 (Memphis, Tenn., United States)

onya Blanding, aged 4, was the youngest victim. She was killed by gunfire from a National Guard tank when her father lit a cigarette near the window of their darkened apartment. Helen Hall, a 51 year-old white woman, was similarly shot through the window of her hotel room where she was staying during a business trip. The oldest victim of the riot was Krikor "George" Messerlian, a 68 year-old white male who owned a shoe repair shop. He was killed on the first day of rioting while defending his property with a baseball bat. Finally, as the riot wound down, three unarmed black teenagers were shot by police at the Algiers Hotel, now made famous by John Hersey's book, The Algiers Motel Incident.

# 1967 - Cambridge riot of 1967, July 1967, a.k.a H. Rap Brown riot (Cambridge, Maryland, United States)

# 1967 - 12th Street Riot, July 23–29, 1967 (Detroit, Michigan, United States)

# 1967 - Milwaukee riot (July 30 - August 2, 1967), (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States)

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1968 - Orangeburg, South Carolina riot and Orangeburg Massacre, (Orangeburg, South Carolina), United States)

Patrolmen randomly fired on a crowd of student demonstrators. 27 students were shot and 3 young men died from the incident only in a matter of seconds. Henry Smith, a family oriented 20-year old college student at South Carolina State was shot in the side and back five times; Delano Middleton, a 17-year old high school student was shot in the hip, the thigh, the side of his chest, his heart and three times in the forearm; and Samuel Hammond, a promising 19-year-old high school student who attended a newly integrated school was killed by one shot in the back. What led to the massacre was a demonstration at a bowling alley that did not admit Blacks. 200 students gathered around a bonfire built on a campus street, only to find it to be smothered by the police. Some students retaliated by throwing rocks and bottles at the officers.

# 1968 - 1968 Washington, D.C. riots, April 1968 (Washington, D.C., United States)

MLK's death

# 1968 - Baltimore riot of 1968, April 6–12 (Baltimore, Maryland, United States)

MLK's death

# 1968 - Chicago riot of 1968, a.k.a West Side Riots, April 7–14 (Chicago, Illinois, United States)

Mlk's death

# 1968 - Wilmington Riot of 1968 April 1968 (Wilmington, Delaware, (United States)

MLK's death

# 1968 - Kansas City riot of 1968, April 1968 (Kansas City, Missouri, United States)

MLK's death

# 1968 - Salisbury riot, May 18–20, (Salisbury, Maryland, United States)

# 1968 - Louisville riots of 1968, May 27, (Louisville, Kentucky, United States)

MLk's death

# 1968 - Glenville Shootout, (Cleveland, Ohio, United States)

# 1969 - Stonewall Riots, June 1969, (New York City, New York, United States)

The Stonewall riots were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. They are frequently cited as the first instance in American history when people in the homosexual community fought back against a government-sponsored system that persecuted sexual minorities, and they have become the defining event that marked the start of the gay rights movement in the United States and around the world.

# 1969 - York Race Riot, July 1969, (York, Pennsylvania, United States)

1969 - Days of Rage, Oct. 1969, (Chicago, Illinois, United States)

The Days of Rage demonstrations were a series of direct actions taken over a course of three days in October 1969 in Chicago organized by the Weatherman faction of the Students for a Democratic Society.

Btw the way there was no real info behind may of those links. Some of them could have been grumpy old men riots for all I know!!!

[John317]

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lazarus: 1969 - Stonewall Riots, June 1969, (New York City, New York, United States)

The Stonewall riots were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. They are frequently cited as the first instance in American history when people in the homosexual community fought back against a government-sponsored system that persecuted sexual minorities, and they have become the defining event that marked the start of the gay rights movement in the United States and around the world.

# 1969 - York Race Riot, July 1969, (York, Pennsylvania, United States)

Yes, I remember these things very well. They really had absolutely nothing to do with the Civil Rights Movement.

Most of the other violent events on that list also had nothing to do with the Civil Rights Movement.