#race riot

[newyorkthegoldenage]

A false rumor swept through Harlem on the night of March 19, 1935 that a black Puerto Rican teenager had been beaten by store employees for shoplifting. The resulting riot targeted property rather than people, and is thus considered the first "modern" race riot. This picture, taken the following day, shows a store window with signs declaring it a "colored store," saving it from destruction.

Photo: Associated Press

#vintage New York #1930s #vintage Harlem #race riot #March 20 #20 March #rumors #Harlem riot #1935 Harlem riot #shop window

[inthefallofasparrow]

Protests Don't Need To Be Civil | SOME MORE NEWS

#cody johnston #uspol #mlk #race riot #supreme court #police brutality #J6 #qanon #Youtube

[disgruntledexplainer]

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[majormisunderstanding]

Buildings burning during race riots in Detroit, 1967.

Photo Tony DeRosa, Centre for the Study of Political Graphics.

#photography #race riot #detroit #fire #1967 #usa

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"Jews Seeking Peace," Toronto Star. August 18, 1933. Page 2. ---- Representative Jewish citizens of Toronto waited upon Mayor Stewart yesterday to assure him of their co-operation in preventing further rioting as a result of the displaying of swastika emblems. Jewish people are being requested, they said, if anything is done to offend them to accept it with forbearance and not with force.

#toronto #race riot #christie pits riot #christie pits #swastika club #antisemitism in canada #jewish canadians #great depression in canada #crime and punishment in canada #history of crime and punishment in canada #hate crime #antisemitism #jewish folk in canada #racism in canada

[rashmeerl]

#france #race #race riot #american

[playitagin]

1992 LA Uprising

1992 – Riots in Los Angeles

 Unrest began in South Central Los Angeles on April 29, after a jury acquitted four officers of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) charged with using excessive force in the arrest and beating of Rodney King. This incident had been videotaped and widely shown in television broadcasts.

#Apr.29.1992 #LA Uprising #Riots in Los Angeles #race riot #arrest and beating #Rodney King #history today

[johnpodlaski]

Race Riot aboard the USS Kitty Hawk

The Navy was the last of the military branches to address race relations in the early seventies. There were inequities within the Navy that took a race riot aboard two major warships to bring very real issues to light about racial injustice. Read about it here: On 12 October, a prolonged and bloody riot erupted on board the carrier Kitty Hawk (CVA-63). Bands of marauding blacks, charging racist…

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#black power #black soldiers in Navy #Race riot #segeregation in the navy #USS Constallation #USS kitty Hawk

[metalheadsforblacklivesmatter]

-fae

#black lives matter #blm #black lives still matter #tulsa race massacre #tulsa riots

[fuckyourbrokenheart]

RACE RIOT 59- Smash Nazis

#race riot #smash Nazis

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[newyorkthegoldenage]

The Harlem Riot of 1943

On August 1, 1943, a White patrol officer arrested a Black woman in Harlem for disturbing the peace. A Black soldier named Robert Bandy protested. The cop said that Bandy hit him, then tried to flee. Bandy said the cop had thrown his nightstick at him and, when he hesitated to return it, shot him. He received a superficial wound in his shoulder.

Pfc. Robert Bandy, a military policeman, in the prison ward of Sydenham Hospital, where he was taken after he was shot in the shoulder by Officer James Collins.

Rumor spread that Bandy had been killed, and the crowd outside the police station became violent. The riot lasted for two days and involved vandalism, looting, and the destruction of White-owned businesses in Harlem.

Smoke billows from an unoccupied automobile that was set on fire during the morning of August 2, 1943, after a night of destruction and looting.

Mayor LaGuardia met with Black leaders and went with them to Harlem, trying to scotch the rumor. He also made radio appeals to Harlem residents, urging them to return home.

Order was eventually restored after the mayor brought in thousands of police and civilian volunteers, but the damage was estimated at between $250,000 and $5 million ($4.4 million to $88 million in today's dollars). Six people died and over 700 were injured.

Policemen and volunteers recruited from all over the city wait outside the 123rd St. station house on August 2 for orders to help restore peace.

The riot died down by the night of August 2. It took the Department of Sanitation three days to clean up the neighborhood. LaGuardia had food delivered to Harlem residents and the Red Cross added some more. Because this was wartime, food was rationed and scarce.

August 2 was also James Baldwin's 19th birthday and the day of his father's funeral. "It seemed to me," Baldwin later wrote, "that God himself had devised, to mark my father's end, the most sustained and brutally dissonant of codas."

All photos from the Associated Press; bottom photo by Harry Harris.

#vintage new york #1940s #1943 riot Harlem #race riot #August 2 #Aug. 2 #2 Aug. #2 August #1943 Harlem riot #Fiorello LaGuardia #Harlem riot #August 1 #1 August #Aug. 1 #1 Aug.

[allforthe-gay]

it is completely one hundred percent baffling to me that any of the foxes would come away from witnessing neil and andrew's reunion in baltimore with the opinion that their relationship was just hate fucking . like my brother in christ are you blind

#andrew was FERAL . #he fucking choked KEVIN like COME ON #and he was like RACING into the room to see neil and #he was all like *tugs neil's hoodie to get his attention* *threatens anyone who tried to come close to them (abby)* #he was all like 'i dont trust them to give you back.' come on man . #and neil was looking at andrew . most definitely Like That. when he was talking to abby #neil was all battered and bruised from barely dodging a fucking death sentence and he sees andrews partly red eye and thats #the first thing he talks about #*lightly taps a thumb against the bruise at andrews eye* i didnt know theyd staged a riot #they were all like Looking at each other and ..... idk i am not explaining this well enough but . #you don't need me to. you all read it #it was So Fucking Obvious my god #im crying bc even neil thought nicky wasnt far from the truth at that point #like he could not have been more incorrect istg . #aftg #andreil #neil josten #andrew minyard #all for the game #mi ne

[mermazeablaze]

I thought some of my Tumblr mutuals would be interested to see this article.

Viola Ford Fletcher, aged 109, just published a memoir 'Don't Let Them Bury My Story' about her experience during the Greenwood/Tulsa Massacre. It will be available for purchase August 15th.

"Her memoir, “Don’t Let Them Bury My Story,” is a call to action for readers to pursue truth, justice and reconciliation no matter how long it takes. Written with graphic details of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre that she witnessed at age seven, Fletcher said she hoped to preserve a narrative of events that was nearly lost to a lack of acknowledgement from mainstream historians and political leaders.

The questions I had then remain to this day,” Fletcher writes in the book. “How could you just give a mob of violent, crazed, racist people a bunch of deadly weapons and allow them — no, encourage them — to go out and kill innocent Black folks and demolish a whole community?”

“As it turns out, we were victims of a lie,” she writes.

Fletcher notes in her memoir just how much history she has lived through — from several virus outbreaks preceding the coronavirus pandemic, to the Great Depression of 1929 and the Great Recession of 2008 to every war and international conflict of the last seven decades. She has watched the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. lead the national Civil Rights Movement, seen the historic election of former President Barack Obama and witnessed the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement."

#Tulsa Race Massacre #Tulsa Race Riot #Greenwood #Black Wall Street #1921 #Oklahoma #Viola Ford Fletcher #Don't Let Them Bury My Story #Book #Memoir #Novel #Library #History #Black Lives Matter #BLM

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"Swastika Feud Battles in Toronto Injure 4, Fists, Boots, Piping Used in Bloor Street War," Toronto Globe. August 17, 1933. Page 1 & 2. ---- "Hail Hitler" Is Youth's Cry; City in Turmoil ---- Trucks Loaded With Jews and Italians Rush to Scene ---- POLICE ARE CALLED --- Willowvale Park Fracas Spreads to Bloor and Clinton ---- "Hail Hitler" - the taunt shouted by an unknown youth, waving a Swastika flag, on the banks of Willow-vale Park about 10.30 o'clock last evening precipitated Toronto's first Swastika riots, and sent four youths, three Jews and one Gentile lad, to the Western Hospital.While there are known to have been more injured in the pitched battle, fought with fists, boots, piping, and other weapons, and surging along Bloor Street from Willowvale Park (Christie Street) to Clinton Street, these are the youths who were taken to hospital:

DAVID FISCHER, AGED 21, 46 SPADINA AVENUE, abrasions about the head and face, struck by a piece of pipe at Christie and Bloor Streets.

AL ECKLER, AGED 23, 112 BRUNSWICK AVENUE, lacerations of the back and cut on head, struck by a baseball bat near the Park.

JOE BROWN, AGED 22, 118 EUCLID AVENUE, knocked down at Clinton and Bloor Streets, kicked in the face, and taken to hospital with badly cut face and lips.

JOE GOLDSTEIN, AGED 17, BELLWOODS AVENUE, struck with a baseball bat at Willowvale Park, sustained two cuts on the head which required several stitches.

Battle in Park. The Bloor Street battle followed earlier, but less serious trouble at Willowvale Park, and occurred after police believed they had squelched all the incipient fireworks. Who the youth was who waved the Swastika and shouted the "Hail, Hitler" challenge no one knows, but he was immediately rushed by a group of Jewish youths and reputedly knocked cold.

The assault upon the swastika wielder was the signal for a general inrush of Christian youths. who piled baseball bats and fists in a wild riot. By the time.police reserves arrived the battle had gradually moved over to Bloor and Clinton Streets, where some serious casualties occurred, and where, it is alleged, bottles for the first time became legitimate weapons. From this battlefront, it is said, many injured limped away or were assisted to their various homes.

Boys on a bicycle carried the news of the Christian-Jewish pitched battle down into the Brunswick-Spadina Avenue district, largely populated by Jews, and where there was a large gathering of Jewish people. The rumor was spread that a Jewish boy had been killed. Immediately. it is said, the Jews began to assemble motor trucks and passenger cars for assault upon the, Bloor Street sector, and, it is reported, they were joined by a carload of Italians.

Truckloads Assembled. These truckloads of Jews and Italians raced up to Bloor Street to participate in the fights, but were halted or sidetracked by police. who had arrived in the interval. Jewish lads hanging on the running-boards of the vehicles, however, were pulled off by Christian lads, and some of them reputedly injured.

The police seized two of the trucks and one passenger car and took them with their drivers to Ossington Avenue Police Station. They were soon released, however, after the drivers had given their names and addresses In one of the trucks was found a piece of two by four inch scantling, seven feet long, with a long spike driven in one end of it - - a potent weapon for any argument.

College Street, from Brunswick to Spadina Avenue, was thronged. by Jews late last evening, awaiting to hear the news, and exchanging what seemed to be wildly exaggerated rumors of the seriousness of the affair. Police estimated that 5,000 Jews surged College Street in this section.

Threats of impending reprisals were said to be plentiful among the College Street throngs of Jews.

Sequel to Ball Game. Swazis and Jews tangled in a more or less anticipated free-for-all, which climaxed the second game of the St. Peter-Harbord series at Willowvale Park. Precautionary measures and prompt action on the part of the police cut short active hostilities, und the large crowd of onlookers and luke-warm partisans was easily dispersed by a half dozen mounted men and a few motorcycle police. But two people received injuries before the brawl was stopped.

Last night's activities were apparently linked up with minor disturbances said to have taken place at the first game of the series, which was played on Monday evening. The two teams which are fighting in the junior semi-finals for the city softball championship are made up almost entirely of Jews in the case of the Harbord team, and ot non-Semetics in the St. Peter's line-up. Although both teams have officially disassociated themselves from any Swazi-Semitic controversy. partisans and onlookers have made the games an occasion for demonstrations.

Trouble began in a group seated on the rising ground above the north-west diamond, on which the game was being played. According to bystanders. there as an interchange of abusive remarks, followed by fisticuffs and a show of bats and sticks. The approach of a constable cut the fracas short, and the participants took night over the hill and out of the park by way of Barton Avenue.

Trouble During Game. Although the game was only in the second inning, the managers agreed to call off the contest in case of any further trouble. No disturbances developed, but the crowd of spectators increased as the other games in the park were finished, until a complete square of onlookers, in some places two and three deep, surrounded the outfield. In this group, and in the crowd seated on the hillside, were stationed a detail of constables from the Ossington Avenue Station and a sprinkling of plainclothesmen.

The game continued its regular routine, and, although no trouble appear-ed. there was a general quiet comment on the first fight, and the possibilities of further trouble. It was almost dark when the St. Peter's team ensured its 6-5 victory by catching a fly from the last Harbord batsman.

And at the same time some one could be distinguished laying a huge banner, apparently bearing a swastika,on a little mound just north of the park limits on Bloor Street. A group of 100 boys and young men streamed across the length of the park as fast as they could run. Some one hurriedly picked up the banner and ran south just as the van of the attackers reach-ed the mound. This group, now swell-ed to several hundred, chased the bearer of the Hitlerite insignia across Bloor Street and down Montrose Avenue, apparently cornering him in anextension of Bickford Ravine.

Traffic Is Stopped. A few minutes later several hundred surged back Montrose headed by a group of young Jews carrying what was left of the Swastika. As they reached Bloor Street, the police marched into the centre of the mix-up, laid hands on the banner and the 21-year-old Jew, who was carrying it. and began to disperse the crowd of several thousand which had practically stopped all Bloor Street traffic.

With the assistance of six mounted police, who were greeted with a slight burst of booing, the constables soon re-established traffic on Bloor Street, and by this means divided the crowd. The latter, made up for the most part of neutral spectators, dispersed into the park and neighborhood in short order. Two motorcycle police drove down into the playing fields and patrolled these for some time occasionally letting the fumes fly from their exhaust but apparently without serious purpose.

Reserves Called Out. Police arrangements were in charge of Patrol Sergeant Robert Reid of the Ossington Avenue Station. After traffic was stopped on Bloor Street, reserves were called in from the Dundas West, the North Toronto and the Davenport Road Stations, under Inspector Robert Anderson and Acting Inspectors Fenwick and Evans.

In a statement to the press last night the managers of both teams united with S. A. Sansone in declaring that the members of their teams were in no way connected with the disturbance. Some of the opposing players, according to the managers had played together on other teams and there has been, and there is no hard feeling between them. They expressed the hope that the Toronto Amateur Softball Association would see fit to schedule the remaining games of the series in a closed park where admission could be in some way restricted.

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[rashmeerl]

#france #race #race riot #american