blanket statement is blanket.
My point isn't to demonize white people, but the majority of riots started in America have been started by white folk and had majority white participants so rioting aint just some ghetto black people shit where they tear things up, and white people who feel "white guilt" are the only whites that jump in it. That's my point.
Nativist Period 1700s-1860
for information about riots worldwide, see List of riots.
1829: Cincinnati Riot of 1829 (Cincinnati, Ohio)
Rioting against African-Americans results in thousands leaving for Canada.
1829: Charlestown Anti-Catholic Riots (Charlestown, Massachusetts)
1834: Massachusetts Convent Burning
1835: Five Points Riot (New York City, New York)
1841: Cincinnati Riot of 1841 (Cincinnati, Ohio)
1844: Philadelphia Nativist Riots (May 6–8/July 5–8)
1851: Hoboken Anti-German Riot
1855: Bloody Monday (Louisville, KY Anti-German Riots)
Civil War Period 1861-1865
1863: Detroit Race Riot
1863: New York City Draft Riot
Post-Civil War and Reconstruction Period: 1865 - 1889
1866: New Orleans Riot (New Orleans, Louisiana)
1866: Memphis Riots of 1866 (Memphis, Tennessee)
1868: Pulaski Riot (Pulaski, Tennessee)
1868: Opelousas Massacre (Opelousas, Louisiana)
1868: Camilla, Georgia
1868: Ward Island Riot
Irish and German-American indigent immigrants, temporarily interned at Wards Island by the Commissioners of Emigration, begin rioting following an altercation between two residents resulting in thirty men seriously wounded and around sixty arrested.[6]
1870: Eutaw, Alabama
1870: Laurens, South Carolina
1870: Kirk-Holden war: Alamance County, North Carolina
Federal troops, led by Col. Kirk and requested by NC governor Holden, were sent to extinguish racial violence. Holden was eventually impeached because of the offensive.
1870: New York City Orange Riot
1871: Meridian race riot of 1871
1871: Second New York City Orange Riot
1871: Los Angeles Anti-Chinese Riot
1871: Scranton Coal Riot
Violence occurs between striking members of a miners' union in Scranton, Pennsylvania when Welsh miners attack Irish and German-American miners who chose to leave the union and accept the terms offered by local mining companies.[7]
1873: Colfax massacre (Colfax, Louisiana)
1874: Vicksburg, Mississippi
1874: New Orleans, Louisiana
1874: Coushatta massacre, Coushatta, Louisiana
1875: Yazoo City, Mississippi
1875: Clinton, Mississippi
1876: Statewide violence in South Carolina
1876: Hamburg, South Carolina
1876: Ellenton, South Carolina
1885: Rock Springs Massacre, Wyoming
1886: Pittsburgh Riot.
1887: Denver Riot of 1887
In one of the largest civil disturbances in the city's history, fighting between Swedish, Hungarian and Polish immigrants results in the shooting death of one man and injuring several others before broken up by police.[8]
1887: Thibodaux massacre, Thibodaux, Louisiana—strike of 10,000 sugar-cane workers which led to a mass killing of an estimated 50 African Americans
Jim Crow Period: 1890 - 1914
Further information: Nadir of American race relations
See also: Ku Klux Klan
1891: New Orleans Anti-Italian Riot
A lynch mob storms a local jail and hangs several Italians following the acquittal of several Sicilian immigrants alleged to be involved in the murder of New Orleans police chief David Hennessy.
1891: 1st Omaha Race Riot
10,000 white people storm the local courthouse to beat and lynch Joe Coe, who was alleged to have raped a white child.
1894: Buffalo, NY Riot of 1894
Two groups of Irish and Italian-Americans are arrested by police after a half hour of hurling bricks and shooting at each other resulting from a barroom brawl when visiting Italian patrons refused to pay for their drinks at a local saloon. After the mob is dispersed by police, five Italians are arrested while two others are sent to a local hospital.[9]
1894: Bituminous Coal Miners' Strike
Much of the violence in this national strike was not specifically racial, but in Iowa, where the employees of Consolidation Coal Company (Iowa) refused to join the strike, armed confrontation between strikers and strike breakers took on racial overtones because the majority of Consolidation's employees were African American. The National Guard was mobilized just in time to avert open warfare.[10][11][12]
1898: Wilmington Race Riot
1898: Lake City, South Carolina
1898: Greenwood County, South Carolina
1899: Newburg, NY Riot
Angered towards the recent hiring of African-American workers, a group of between 80 and 100 Arab laborers attack a group of African-American workers near the Freeman & Hammond brick yard with numerous men injured on both sides.[13]
1900: New Orleans, Louisiana : Robert Charles Riots
1900: New York City, New York
1902: New York City, New York
Anti-Semitic riots involving Irish factory workers, city policemen and thousands of Jews attending Jacob Joseph's funeral
1906: Little Rock, Arkansas
Started when a white police officer in Argenta killed a black musician in a bathroom, causing the burning down of half a block of burned down commercial buildings and two black residencies, as well as the departure of many blacks as white men taking arms ran down the street.[14]
1906: Atlanta Riots, Georgia
1907: Bellingham Riots, Washington
1908: Springfield, Illinois
1909: Greek Town Riot
A successful Greek immigrant community in South Omaha, Nebraska is burnt to the ground and its residents are forced to leave town.[15]
1910: Nationwide riots following the heavyweight championship fight between Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries in Reno, Nevada on July 4
War and Inter-War Period: 1914 - 1945
Further information: Nadir of American race relations
1917: East St. Louis, Illinois
1917: Chester, Pennsylvania
1917: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1917: Houston Riot (1917)
Red Summer of 1919
1919: Washington, D.C.
1919: Chicago, Illinois
1919: Omaha, Nebraska
1919: Charleston, South Carolina
1919: Longview, Texas
1919: Knoxville, Tennessee
1919: Elaine, Arkansas
1921: Tulsa, Oklahoma
1923: Rosewood, Florida (area is now an outgrowth of Cedar Key, Florida)
1927: Poughkeepsie, New York - A wave of civil unrest, violence and vandalism by local White mobs against Blacks, as well Greek, Jewish, Chinese and Puerto Rican targets in the community, though mostly directed at African-Americans.[citation needed]
1930: Watsonville, California
1935: Harlem Race Riot
1943: Detroit Race Riot
1943: Harlem Race Riot
1943: Zoot Suit Riots, Los Angeles, California
1944: Agana, Guam