Riots

The Zoot Suit Riots were a series of racially charged clashes in Los Angeles. U.S. servicemen, off‑duty police officers, and civilians attacked Mexican American youths. Known as pachucos, they wore distinctive zoot suits characterized by broad‑shouldered jackets and baggy, tapered trousers.

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">The draft riots of 1863 turned a great city into a living hell.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Paul Robeson was giving a concert. It ended in a riot that foreshadowed the McCarthy era of the 1950’s</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">BLOOD FLOWED IN THE PERENNIALLY TROUBLESOME COALFIELDS IN 1921, WHEN THOUSANDS OF MINERS DECIDED THEIR RIGHT TO ORGANIZE WAS WORTH FIGHTING FOR</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The GIs came home to find that a political machine had taken over their Tennessee county. What they did about it astounded the nation.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A five-day uprising by Irish immigrants in New York was ostensibly against the draft, but was in fact a chance for Irish mobs to attack and murder as many black people as possible.</span></p>

<p>After Fort Sumter fell, a secessionist mob in Baltimore rioted and blocked the passage of Federal troops to Washington, D.C</p>

<p>During the Black Panther trials in New Haven 50 years ago this summer, a remarkable group of leaders helped calm a boisterous crowd of protesters.</p>

<p>The nation was torn apart by disastrous riots in a hundred cities and towns, with lasting results.</p>