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5 (soldiers) killed, 36 wounded. 12 (civilians) killed, unknown hundreds wounded. The Baltimore riot of 1861 (also called the "Pratt Street Riots" and the "Pratt Street Massacre") was a civil conflict on Friday, April 19, 1861, on Pratt Street, in Baltimore, Maryland. It occurred between antiwar "Copperhead" Democrats (the largest party in ...
Wilmington, Delaware (November 13) 1919 – Annapolis riot of 1919, June 27, Annapolis, Maryland. 1919 – Boston Police Strike, September 9–11, Boston, Massachusetts. 1919 – Steel Strike of 1919, September 22 – January 8 Pennsylvania. 1919 – Coal Strike of 1919, November 1 – December 10 Pennsylvania.
Baltimore riot police form a line to push back protesters and media members on April 28. At 10:15 p.m., hundreds of demonstrators, some throwing bottles at police, remained in the streets while police in riot gear began to move the crowds with speakers from helicopters overhead broadcasting, "You must go home. You cannot remain here.
The Baltimore Plot were alleged conspiracies in February 1861 to assassinate President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a whistle-stop tour en route to his inauguration. Allan Pinkerton, founder of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, played a key role by managing Lincoln's security throughout the journey. Though scholars debate whether or not ...
As civil disturbances began spreading across the nation, the initially peaceful Baltimore day of April 6th, 1968 became increasingly violent. The riots ended with five deaths, 300 fires and over ...
2. Louisville, Kentucky experienced three days of rioting in May 1968. As in many other cities around the country, there were unrest and riots partially in response to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., on April 4. On May 27, a group of 400 people, mostly blacks, gathered at 28th and Greenwood Streets, in the Parkland neighborhood.
The Ferguson unrest (sometimes called the Ferguson uprising, Ferguson protests, or the Ferguson riots) was a series of protests and riots which began in Ferguson, Missouri on August 10, 2014, the day after the fatal shooting of Michael Brown by FPD officer Darren Wilson. The unrest sparked a vigorous debate in the United States about the ...
On October 31, 1919, an enraged and armed white mob made up of hundreds of Corbin's townspeople organized and went house-to-house rounding up black residents. [2] When they felt that all of the African-Americans of the town had been gathered, the mob marched a group of approximately 200 men, women, and children to the train station, and herded ...