List of ethnic riots

This is a list of notable ethnic riots, sectarian riots, and race riots, by country.

For the 1929 Oswald film, see Race Riot (film).
Further information: Ethnic conflict and Riot

Africa

Côte d'Ivoire

Egypt

Lesotho

Libya

Mauritius

Mauritania

Rhodesia
  • Kananga (1925) – Kananga Riot of 1925

South Africa

Tanzania

Americas

Brazil

Canada

Mexico

Peru
  • Afro-Peruvian massacre of Chinese coolies (1880s)[11]
  • Indigenous uprising against White Peruvians (1880s)[12]

United States
Main article: Mass racial violence in the United States

Nativist Period: 1700s–1860

Civil War Period: 1861–1865
Main article: Mass racial violence in the United States § Civil War period 1861–1865

Reconstruction Period: 1865–1877
Main article: Mass racial violence in the United States § Post–Civil War and Reconstruction period: 1865–1877

Jim Crow Period: 1878–1914
See also: List of riots and civil unrest in Omaha, Nebraska
  • 1885: Anti-Chinese riot in Rock Springs, Wyoming Territory
  • 1886: Seattle riot of 1886[16]
  • 1898: Wilmington Insurrection of 1898, white Democrats overthrew elected government and attacked blacks[17]
  • 1898: Lake City, South Carolina
  • 1898: Greenwood County, South Carolina
  • 1900: Robert Charles Riots
  • 1900: New York City
  • 1904: Springfield, Ohio Race Riot[18]
  • 1906: Springfield, Ohio Race Riot[18]
  • 1906: Atlanta Race Riot, whites against African Americans[19]
  • 1906: Brownsville, Texas
  • 1907: Onancock, Virginia
  • 1907: Pacific Coast Race Riots of 1907
  • 1908: Springfield Race Riot of 1908[20]
  • 1909: Omaha, Nebraska anti-Greek riot
  • 1910: Nationwide riots following the heavyweight championship fight between Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries in Reno, Nevada on July 4
  • 1910: Slocum, Texas

War and inter-war period: 1914–1945

Postwar era: 1946–1954

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

1978 to today
  • 1978: Houston's Moody Park on the first anniversary of Joe Campos Torres death.
  • 1979: Great Brook Valley Projects Riots Worcester, Massachusetts, Puerto Ricans rioted
  • 1980: Miami riots (Miami, Florida): Reactions following the acquittal of four Miami-Dade Police officers in the death of Arthur McDuffie.
  • 1980: Chattanooga Riot (Chattanooga, Tennessee)
  • 1984: Lawrence, Massachusetts Race Riot: A small scale riot centered at the intersection of Haverhill and railroad streets between working class whites and Hispanics; several buildings were destroyed by Molotov cocktails; August 8, 1984.[30]
  • 1989: Overtown Riot (Miami, FL) After a black motorcyclist was shot by a Hispanic police officer in the predominantly black community of Overtown, residents rioted for two nights. The officer was later convicted of manslaughter.
  • 1990: Wynwood riot (Miami, FL) Puerto Ricans rioted after a jury acquitted six officers accused of beating a Puerto Rican drug dealer to death
  • 1991: Crown Heights riot (Crown Heights neighborhood, Brooklyn, New York City), black anti-Jewish mob killed 2, injured 190.
  • 1992: Los Angeles riots (Los Angeles, California): In reaction to the acquittal of all four LAPD officers involved in the videotaped beating of Rodney King, in addition to the Korean involved in the murder of Latasha Harlins; riots broke out mainly involving black and Latino youths in the black neighborhoods of South Central Los Angeles and Korean-American neighborhood of Koreatown before spreading to the rest of the city
  • 1996: St. Petersburg riots (St. Petersburg, Florida): After Officer Jim Knight stopped 18 yr. old Tyron Lewis for speeding, he claimed to accidentally fire his weapon, fatally wounding the black teenager. Riots broke out, lasting 2 days.
  • 2001: Cincinnati riots (Cincinnati, Ohio): In a reaction to the fatal shooting of an unarmed young black male, Timothy Thomas by Cincinnati police officer Steven Roach, riots broke out over the span of a few days.
  • 2003: Benton Harbor riots (Benton Harbor, Michigan)
  • 2005: 2005 Toledo riot (Toledo, Ohio): A race riot that broke out after a planned Neo-Nazi protest march through a black neighborhood.
  • 2006: Fontana High School riot (Fontana, California): Riot involving about 500 Latino and black students[31]
  • 2006: Prison Race Riots (California): A war between Latino and black prison gangs set off a series of riots across California[32][33]
  • 2008: Locke High School riot[34] (Los Angeles, California)
  • 2009: 2009 Oakland riots (Oakland, California): Peaceful protests turned into rioting after the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man, Oscar Grant, by a BART transit policeman.
  • 2014–2015: The Ferguson unrest, a series of riots break out in Ferguson, Missouri over the shooting of Michael Brown.
  • 2015: The Death of Freddie Gray was an incident in which a suspect died in police custody and later protests turned into riots in Baltimore.
  • 2016: The Shooting of Abdullahi Omar Mohamed sparked riots on the night of the shooting.
  • 2020: The Death of George Floyd caused days of rioting in the Minneapolis-St Paul, MN metro area. This has further spread to the cities of NYC, LA, San Jose, San Francisco, Atlanta, Milwaukee, Detroit, Chicago, Washington DC, Charlottesville, Charlotte, Baltimore, Portland, Dallas, Denver, St Louis, Oakland, Cincinnati, Bakersfield, Seattle, Boston, Memphis, Indianapolis, Las Vegas, Columbus, Kansas City, Sacramento, Omaha, Louisville, Phoenix, Albuquerque, Fort Worth, Richmond, Philadelphia, Visalia, Nashville, Buffalo, Rochester, Orlando, Tampa, San Diego, San Antonio, Seattle, Oklahoma City, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Salt Lake City, Miami, Norfolk, Reno, Madison, Charleston, Santa Monica, Houston, Paducah and many other major cities within the US.

Asia

Azerbaijan

Bangladesh

Burma

China

Fiji

Indonesia

Israel
  • Acre, Israel (2008) – Sectarian violence erupted on 8 October 2008 turning into 5 days of violence after an Arab Israeli citizen drove through a predominantly Jewish neighbourhood during Yom Kippur.[39][40][41]
  • Tel Aviv (2012) – Race riots by Jewish Israelis against black African immigrants took place in May 2012 after the rape of an elderly woman, and an under age Israeli girl by South Sudanese men in front of her boyfriend.[42][43][44][45]
  • Tel Aviv (2015) – After an Ethiopian-born IDF officer was beaten by an Israeli police officer and police volunteer, protests in Tel Aviv against racism and police brutality turned violent, with injuries among protesters and police.[46]

Malaysia

Pakistan

Palestine (British Mandate)

Singapore

Sri Lanka

Europe

Belgium

Bulgaria

Denmark
  • St. Croix riot (1873) – St. Croix Agricultural labor rioted against landlords and labor laws.
  • Jewish skirmishes (1820–22) – Various Danish and German cities and towns.

France

Germany

Italy

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
  • Ełk riots (2017) – During the New Year's Eve, a Polish man was stabbed to death by a Tunisian man - incident sparked the riots.

Russia

Soviet Union
  • Sumgait Massacre (1988) – anti-Armenian riots in Azerbaijan SSR during February 1988
  • Uzbek SSR (1989) – After bloody riots against the Meskhetian Turks in Central Asia's Fergana Valley, nearly 90,000 Meskhetian Turks left Uzbekistan[61]
  • Dushanbe riots (1990) – anti-Armenian unrest in Dushanbe, the capital of the Tajik SSR, from February 12–14, 1990.
  • Osh riots (1990) – an ethnic conflict between ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbeks that took place in June 1990 in the Kyrgyz SSR

Spain

Turkey
  • Eastern Thrace – (1934 Thrace pogroms), anti-Jewish pogrom.
  • Istanbul (1955) – Istanbul Riots, also known as Istanbul Pogrom.

Ukraine

United Kingdom

Oceania

Australia

New Zealand

Solomon Islands

Tonga

See also

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