Primary Source Spotlight: Race Riots/Protests

'It really takes guts to stick' Brooklyn scene

Wilmington, North Carolina 1898

New York City 1900

Atlanta, Georgia 1906

Springfield, Illinois 1908

East St. Louis, Illinois 1917

Chicago 1919

U.S. 1919

Ocoee, Florida 1920

Tulsa, Oklahoma 1921

Rosewood, Florida 1923

Harlem, New York 1935 & 1943 & 1964

Mississippi 1962

Watts, Los Angeles 1965

Detroit, Michigan 1967

Washington D.C. 1968

Los Angeles -Rodney King 1992

Ferguson, Missouri – Michael Brown 2014

Baltimore, Maryland – Freddie Gray 2015

U.S. – George Floyd 2020

U.S. – Black Lives Matter 2020-2021

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