List of race riots

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

Contents

Angola

Australia

Belgium

Brazil

Bulgaria

Burma

Canada

China

France

India

Indonesia

Israel

Italy

Ivory Coast

Lesotho

Malaysia

Mauritania

Netherlands

New Zealand

Poland

Rhodesia

Russia

Singapore

Solomon Islands

South Africa

Soviet Union

Spain

Sri Lanka

Main article: Riots and pogroms in Sri Lanka

Tanzania

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

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

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

Modern

Zambia

See also

References

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  37. ^ 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.
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  39. ^ 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.
  40. ^ 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.
  41. ^ 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.
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