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List of incidents of civil unrest in the United States

Listed are major episodes of civil unrest in the United States. This list does not include the numerous incidents of destruction and violence associated with various sporting events.

18th century

19th century

1800–1849

1850–1859

1860–1869

1870–1879

1880–1889

1890–1899

20th century

1900–1909

1910–1919

1920–1929

1930–1939

1940–1949

1950–1959

1960–1969

1970—1979

1980–1989

  • 1980 – Idabel riot, January, Idabel Oklahoma, Two people are killed in rioting following the killing of a 15-year-old black youth
  • 1980 – New Mexico State Penitentiary riot, February 2–3, Santa Fe, New Mexico
  • 1980 – 21st street riot, April 22, Wichita, KS, Black rioters battled police and attacked passing motorists after an alleged incident of police brutality against a black man. Over 60 people were injured and 24 people were arrested.
  • 1980 – Wrightsville, Georgia unrest, April-May, extended period of racially motivated brawls, shootings and arsons between Blacks and Whites,
  • 1980 – Miami riot 1980, May 17–19, Miami, Florida
  • 1980 – Chattanooga riots, July, Chattanooga, Tennessee, rioting in Chattanooga after two Ku Klux Klansmen were acquitted of shooting four black women by an all-white jury. 8 police officers were shot.
  • 1982 – 1982 Overtown riot, December 28, Miami, Florida
  • 1984 – Tower Hill riot, Lawrence, Massachusetts
  • 1985 – 1985 MOVE bombing, May 13, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • 1986 – Marquette Park KKK rally, June 28, Chicago, Illinois
  • 1987 – 1987 Tampa riots, Tampa, Florida
  • 1988 – Tompkins Square Park riot, August 6–7, New York City
  • 1988 – Cedar Grove, Shreveport, Louisiana
  • 1989 – 1989 Miami riot, January 16–18, four days of rioting in the Overtown neighborhood began after a police officer shot a man driving a motorcycle who was fleeing another officer. He crashed and his passenger was also killed. Miami, Florida
  • 1989 – 1989 Tampa riot, February 1, Tampa, Florida a riot began following the death of an African American man while in police custody. The disturbance lasted for an hour with 150 youths participating. A grocery store was looted and set on fire. Four police officers, including one involved in the initial arrest, were injured.

1990–1999

21st century

2000–2009

2010–2019

2020–present

  • 2020 – New York City FTP protests, January 31, Anti-Transit Police and MTA protest
  • 2020 – University of Dayton closure riot, March 11, A riot broke out following the university's announcement of a temporary closure due to COVID-19.

See also

References

Further reading

  • Bernstein, Iver. The New York City Draft Riots: Their Significance for American Society and Politics in the Age of the Civil War (Oxford UP, 1991) online
  • Brophy, Alfred L. and Randall Kennedy. Reconstructing the Dreamland: The Tulsa Riot of 1921: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation (Oxford UP, 2003)
  • Brown, Richard Maxwell. Strain of violence: Historical studies of American violence and vigilantism (Oxford UP, 1975) online; also see online.
  • Bruns, Roger. Zoot Suit Riots (ABC-CLIO 2014), Hispanics in Los Angeles in 1940s.
  • Chicago Commission on Race Relations. The Negro in Chicago: A Study of Race Relations and a Race Riot (1922) on Chicago race riot of 1919
  • Dobrin, Adam, ed. Statistical handbook on violence in America (Oryx, 1996) hundreds of tables and charts, focused on late 20th century.
  • Feldberg, Michael, The Philadelphia Riots of 1844: A Study of Ethnic Conflict (1975);
  •  Feldberg. "The Philadelphia Riots of 1844: A Social History" (PhD dissertation, U of Rochester; ProQuest Dissertations Publishing,  1970. 7101385).
  • Fine, Sidney. Violence in the Model City: The Cavanagh Administration, Race Relations, and the Detroit Riot Of 1967 (Michigan State University Press,2007)
  • Gilje, Paul A. Rioting in America (Indiana UP, 1996), interpretive history from colonial era to present
  • Gordon, Michael A. The Orange Riots: Irish Political Violence in New York City, 1870 and 1871 (Cornell UP, 2018) see Orange Riots
  • Gottesman, Ronald, and Richard Maxwell Brown, eds. Violence in America: an encyclopedia (3 vol 1999). 1930pp; comprehensive coverage by scholars; vol 2 online
  • Graham, Hugh Davis, ed. Violence in America : historical and comparative perspectives ; a report to the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence (2 vol 1969) vol 1 online also vol 2 online
  • Gurr, Ted Robert, ed. Violence in America: Protest, rebellion, reform (1979).
  • Hofstadter, Richard, and Michael Wallace, eds. American violence: A documentary history (1971). online
  • Hunt, Darnell M. Screening the Los Angeles ’Riots’: Race, Seeing, and Resistance (Cambridge UP, 1996), focus on media coverage
  • Rucker, Walter C. and James N. Upton, eds. Encyclopedia of American Race Riots (2 vol. Greenwood, 2006)
  • Schneider, John Charles.  “Mob violence and public order in the American city, 1830–1865” (PhD dissertation,  University of Minnesota; ProQuest Dissertations Publishing,  1971. 7205576).
  • Tager, Jack. Boston Riots: Three Centuries of Social Violence (Northeastern University Press, 2001)
  • Tuttle, William. Race Riot: Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919. (U of Illinois Press, 1970). online
  • Victor, Orville J. History Of American Conspiracies: A Record Of Treason, Insurrection, Rebellion, &c. In The United States Of America. From 1760 To 1860 (1863) online, entertaining but outdated
  • Waskow, Arthur I. From Race Riot to Sit-In, 1919 and the 1960s: A Study in the Connections Between Conflict and Violence. (Doubleday, 1966).