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This is a list of race riots/sectarian violence by country.

Angola

Australia

Belgium

Brazil

Bulgaria

Burma

Canada

  • Toronto (August 2–5, 1918)[4] - Anti-Greek Riot.
  • Toronto (August 16, 1933) - Christie Pits Race Riot
  • Vancouver (September 7, 1907) - anti-Asian riot

China

Denmark

  • St. Croix riot (1873) - St. Croix
  • Jewish skirmish (1820-22) - various Danish and German cities and towns.

France

  • 2005 civil unrest in France – mainly Paris, but also in other high-immigrant areas.
  • Perpignan (2005) – Perpignan Riots[6] between North African and Roma communities after a man of North African descent was shot dead.
  • Avignon (September 2009) – between Turkish and Morroccan youths (one young of African descent was dead)

India

Indonesia

Israel

Italy

Ivory Coast

  • Abidjan, Ivory Coast (2004) - Anti-white riots[15][16]

Lesotho

Malaysia

Mauritania

Nigeria

Netherlands

New Zealand

Pakistan

Poland

  • Przytyk pogrom (1936) - anti-Jewish riots in Przytyk, on March 9, 1936
  • Kraków pogrom (1945) - anti-Jewish riots that occurred on August 11, 1945, in the city of Kraków
  • Kielce pogrom (1946) - an outbreak of violence against the Jewish community of Kielce, Poland on July 4, 1946
  • Mława pogrom (1991) - a series of violent incidents in June 1991, when a crowd attacked Roma residents of the Polish town of Mława

Rhodesia

  • Kananga (1925) - Kananga Riot of 1925

Russia

Singapore

Solomon Islands

South Africa

  • Durban (1949) - Anti-Indian riots, an inter-racial conflict between Zulus and Indians in Durban.[22]
  • Durban (1985) - Anti-Indian riots[23]
  • Port Elizabeth, South Africa (2007) - Anti-Somali riot[24]

Soviet Union

Spain

Sri Lanka

Main article: Riots and pogroms in Sri Lanka

Tanzania

  • Zanzibar (1964) - The Zanzibar Revolution of January 12, 1964 put an end to the local Arab dynasty. Thousands of Arabs were massacred in riots, and thousands more were detained or fled the island[29][30]

Tonga

Turkey

United Kingdom

United States

Main article: Mass racial violence in the United States
Further information: List of riots and civil unrest in Omaha, Nebraska

Nativist Period 1700's-1860

  • 1824: Providence, Rhode Island Hardscrabble Riots
  • 1829: Cincinnati riots of 1829 Rioting against African Americans results in over a thousand leaving for Canada.
  • 1829: Charlestown Anti-Catholic Riots
  • 1831: Providence, Rhode Island
  • 1834: Massachusetts Convent Burning
  • 1834: Philadelphia pro-slavery riots[34]
  • 1835: Five Points Riot
  • 1836: Cincinnati riots of 1836. Several anti-abolitionist riots took place
  • 1841: Cincinnati, Ohio White Irish-descendant and Irish immigrant dock workers rioted against Black dock workers. When the Black dock workers banded together to defend their community from the approaching Whites, the White rioters retreated and then commandeered a 6-pound cannon and shot it through the streets of Cincinnati.
  • 1844: Philadelphia Nativist Riots (May 6–8/July 5–8)
  • 1851: Hoboken Anti-German Riot
  • 1855: Louisville Anti-German Riots

Civil War Period 1861-1865

Reconstruction Period: 1865 - 1877

Jim Crow Period: 1878 - 1914

War and Inter-War Period: 1914 - 1945

Postwar era: 1946 - 1954

  • 1946: Columbia, Tennessee Riot

Civil Rights and Black Power Movement's Period: 1955 - 1977

Modern

See also

References

  1. ^ How China's taking over Africa, and why the West should be VERY worried
  2. ^ Rebelions in Bahia
  3. ^ Roma riots stir unease in Bulgaria
  4. ^ YFile: York's Daily Bulletin. 1918 anti-Greek riot a dark episode in Toronto’s history. Friday October 22, 2004.
  5. ^ Xinjiang, China's Restive Northwest
  6. ^ 'Race killing' sparks French riot
  7. ^ Indonesia Turns Its Chinese Into Scapegoats, New York Times
  8. ^ Anti-Chinese riots continue in Indonesia, CNN
  9. ^ Acre faces fourth night of riots, Al Jazeera English
  10. ^ Israeli City Divided by Sectarian Violence, New York Times, October 12, 2008
  11. ^ Police arrest Acre Yom Kippur driver, Jpost, October 12, 2008
  12. ^ Milan police in Chinatown clash
  13. ^ Milan Chinese riot over traffic fine
  14. ^ Mafia killing of immigrants sparks riots near Naples
  15. ^ Rwanda Syndrome on the Ivory Coast
  16. ^ France's 'Little Iraq'
  17. ^ LESOTHO: Anti-Chinese resentment flares
  18. ^ Timeline: Mauritania
  19. ^ Ethnic Riots after Dutchman is Killed by Police
  20. ^ Moroccan-Dutch youth riot in Amsterdam following fatal incident
  21. ^ "The Pacific Proxy: China vs Taiwan", Graeme Dobell, ABC Radio Australia, February 7, 2007
  22. ^ The Durban Riot 1949
  23. ^ Current Africa race riots like 1949 anti-Indian riots: minister, TheIndianStar.com
  24. ^ 27 held after anti-Somali riot: South Africa
  25. ^ Focus on Mesketian Turks
  26. ^ Spain struggles with race riots
  27. ^ Spanish youth clash with immigrant gangs
  28. ^ African immigrants riot in Spain, BBC NEWS
  29. ^ Country Histories - Empire's Children
  30. ^ Heartman, Adam (2006-09-26). "A Homemade Genocide". Who's Fault Is It?. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  31. ^ "Chinese stores looted in Tonga riots", People's Daily, November 17, 2006
  32. ^ Race riot rocks town, Turkish Daily News, October 4, 2008
  33. ^ Race clashes hit Windsor
  34. ^ Evan Carton, Patriotic Treason: John Brown and the Soul of America, at 59 (Free Press 2006); see also http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/policing.cfm
  35. ^ [1]
  36. ^ No deaths were reported, but all Chinese and most other Asians were expelled from Seattle and Tacoma. Schwantes, Carlos A. "Protest in a Promised Land: Unemployment, Disinheritance, and the Origin of Labor Militancy in the Pacific Northwest, 1885-1886." Western Historical Quarterly. 13:4 (October 1982).
  37. ^ Thirty African Americans died. Robert A. Gibson, The Negro Holocaust: Lynching and Race Riots in the United States, 1880-1950, Yale University, 1979.
  38. ^ Ten African Americans and two Caucasians died. Robert A. Gibson, The Negro Holocaust: Lynching and Race Riots in the United States, 1880-1950, Yale University, 1979.
  39. ^ Two African Americans and four Caucasians died. Robert A. Gibson, The Negro Holocaust: Lynching and Race Riots in the United States, 1880-1950, Yale University, 1979; Roberta Senechal, "Springfield Race Riot of 1908," Illinois History Teacher, Summer/Fall 1996.
  40. ^ According to federal, state and local government investigators, only 39 African Americans died. But civilian investigations shortly after the riot indicate that between 100 and 200 African Americans died. The riot was notable for its brutality, including scalping, gouging out of eyes, and children acting as murderers. Elliott M. Rudwick, Race Riot at East St. Louis, Southern Illinois University Press, 1964.
  41. ^ Twenty-three African Americans and 15 Caucasians died. Robert A. Gibson, The Negro Holocaust: Lynching and Race Riots in the United States, 1880-1950, Yale University, 1979.
  42. ^ Officially, only 39 African Americans died. But more recent estimates are that between 150 an 200 African Americans and 50 Caucasians died, and some sources put the number of black dead at 300. James S. Hirsch, Riot and Remembrance: America's Worst Race Riot and Its Legacy, Mariner Books, 2003. ISBN 0-618-34076-9; Robert A. Gibson, The Negro Holocaust: Lynching and Race Riots in the United States, 1880-1950, Yale University, 1979.
  43. ^ Officially, six African Americans and two Caucasians died. However, there is disagreement about the number of dead, and some estimates place the number of black dead between 40 and 150. Michael D'Orso, Like Judgment Day: The Ruin and Redemption of a Town Called Rosewood, Putnam Books, 1996. ISBN 1-57297-256-4.
  44. ^ http://www.pinnaclenews.com/life/contentview.asp?c=198024
  45. ^ Twenty-five African Americans and nine Caucasians died. Robert A. Gibson, The Negro Holocaust: Lynching and Race Riots in the United States, 1880-1950, Yale University, 1979.
  46. ^ http://openvault.wgbh.org/ton/mla000400/index.html
  47. ^ San Bernardino County Sun - Fontana students blame riot on simmering racial tension
  48. ^ More Injuries as Race Riots Disrupt Jails in Los Angeles
  49. ^ Race riot put down at California state prison
  50. ^ Locke High School locked down after huge brawl, Los Angeles Times
  51. ^ Hempstead High On Guard Following 2 Days Of Brawls, wcbstv.com, October 21, 2008
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