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    The Harlem riot of 1964 occurred between July 16 and 22, 1964. It began after James Powell, a 15-year-old African American, was shot and killed by police...
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    tactics. The six days of unrest throughout New York City during the Harlem riot of 1964 is viewed as the first of clusters of riots, uncoordinated with...
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  • The Harlem riot of 1935 took place on March 19, 1935, in New York City, New York, in the United States. It has been described as the first "modern" race...
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  • and followed the 1964 Rochester race riot and Harlem riot of 1964 in New York City. In 1964, North Philadelphia was the city's center of African-American...
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  • shopkeeper Harlem riot of 1943, disturbances that began after an NYPD policeman shot and wounded a black U.S. Army soldier Harlem riot of 1964, six days of civil...
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  • A race riot took place in Harlem, New York City, on August 1 and 2 of 1943, after a white police officer, James Collins, shot and wounded Robert Bandy...
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  • covers three separate capers, set in 1959, 1961 and 1964. It culminates with the Harlem riot of 1964. Harlem Shuffle, Whitehead's eighth novel, was conceived...
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  • of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner, three CORE activists, in Mississippi by white supremacists that created a national sensation, and the Harlem riot of...
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    specifically in Harlem. In 1964, across Harlem's three precincts, the ratio was one black police officer for every six white officers. A riot occurred in...
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  • south of East Harlem precipitates a string of race riots in July and August, including: 1964Harlem Riot of 1964, July 16–22, New York City 1964 – Rochester...
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  • topical in nature, particularly Ochs' "In the Heat of the Summer" (which chronicled the Harlem riot of 1964), and Reynolds' "It Isn't Nice". Side one "Pack...
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  • The 1964 Rochester race riot was a riot that occurred in 1964 in Rochester, New York, United States. The riot occurred in the context of a rapidly-growing...
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    black teenager in Harlem in July 1964, tensions escalated out of control. Residents were frustrated with racial inequalities. Rioting broke out, and Bedford-Stuyvesant...
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  • Cambridge riot of 1963 1963: Lexington, NC – Lexington riot 1964: Harlem, NY – Harlem Riot of 1964 1964: Rochester, NY – Rochester riot 1964: North Philadelphia...
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  • 24-hour coverage of a major news event by the major networks. 1964 - Ghetto riots (1964–1969), beginning with the Harlem riot of 1964 1964 – The Beatles...
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    shooting of Robert Bandy by a white police officer 1964Harlem riot, occurred July 16 through 22, following the fatal police shooting of a 15-year-old...
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    Greater Harlem, in the northern section of the New York City borough of Manhattan, has historically had high poverty and crime rates. Crime in Harlem is primarily...
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  • could not solve their problems. Harlem riot of 1935 Harlem riot of 1943 Harlem riot of 1964 1968 New York City riot Fernandez, Johanna (2011). "The Young...
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    were somewhat less formally organized. At the time of the 1964 riots, the drug addiction rate in Harlem was ten times higher than the New York City average...
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  • Globetrotters The Harlem Globetrotters (film) Harlem Renaissance Harlem Riot of 1935 Harlem Riot of 1943 Harlem Riot of 1964 Harlem Writers Guild Harriet...
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  • Little Fruit Stand Riot, which was followed twelve days later by an attack on a couple who owned a used clothing store in Harlem: Margit Sugar was fatally...
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    Stultz, Spencer (December 4, 2017). "The Harlem Race Riot of 1964". BlackPast.org. Retrieved May 3, 2020. "DIES OF SYLVANIA BLAST; Chemical Engineer Succumbs...
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    and Seventh Avenue during the Harlem Riot of 1964. Numerous mills sprang up along the street on the eastern side but many of the former derelict buildings...
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  • Cypriots. Harlem riot of 1964 16–22 July 1964, New York City, New York, provoked by the NYPDs shooting of black teenager James Powell. Philadelphia 1964 race...
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    Alcindor wrote for the Harlem Youth Action Project newspaper. The Harlem riot of 1964, which was prompted by the fatal shooting of 15-year old black boy...
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    tensions or backlash against civil rights. After the outbreak of the Harlem riot of 1964, Goldwater privately gathered news reporters on his campaign plane...
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  • American police officer whose shooting of James Powell instigated the Harlem riot of 1964 Tom Gilligan (footballer, born 1874) (1874–1957), Australian rules...
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  • of the city of Birmingham, Alabama, mayor and state politician James Powell, African American teenager whose shooting led to the Harlem riot of 1964 This...
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    East Harlem, also known as Spanish Harlem or El Barrio, is a neighborhood of Upper Manhattan in New York City, north of the Upper East Side and bounded...
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  • known as the Hunters Point Riot or Rebellion) broke out in the Hunters Point neighborhood of San Francisco on the night of September 27, 1966, after San...
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