The term ghetto riots, also termed ghetto rebellions, race riots, or negro riots refers to summer social unrest across the United States in the mid-to-late...

The Harlem riot of 1964 occurred between July 16 and 22, 1964. It began after James Powell, a 15-year-old African American, was shot and killed by police...

Blacks and the Watts riot Clayton D. Clingan, Watts Riots Paul Bullock, Watts: The Aftermath. New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1969. Johny Otis, Listen to...

Some of the biggest riots took place in Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Chicago, and Kansas City. The immediate cause of the rioting was the assassination...

more than 150 race riots that erupted across major cities in the United States during the summer of 1967. In June there were riots in Atlanta, Boston...

The Hough riots were riots in the predominantly African-American community of Hough (pronounced "Huff") in Cleveland, Ohio, United States which took place...

occurred during the 1969 Greensboro uprising in North Carolina, in conjunction with the ghetto riots (1964–1969), a group of riots which includes the long...

pacifying figure who helped quell the rioting. A fictionalized version of the events of the Philadelphia riots of 1964 are depicted in the first season finale...

major news event by the major networks. 1964 - Ghetto riots (1964–1969), beginning with the Harlem riot of 1964 1964 – The Beatles arrive in the U.S., and...

The 1964 Rochester race riot was a riot that occurred in 1964 in Rochester, New York, United States. The riot occurred in the context of a rapidly-growing...