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The Stonewall riots, also known as the Stonewall uprising, Stonewall rebellion, Stonewall revolution, [3] or simply Stonewall, were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City.
The Tulsa race massacre, also known as the Tulsa race riot or the Black Wall Street massacre, [12] was a two-day-long white supremacist terrorist [13] [14] massacre [15] that took place between May 31 and June 1, 1921, when mobs of white residents, some of whom had been appointed as deputies and armed by city government officials, [16] attacked black residents and destroyed homes and ...
The Chicago race riot of 1919 was a violent racial conflict between white Americans and black Americans that began on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, on July 27 and ended on August 3, 1919. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] During the riot, 38 people died (23 black and 15 white). [ 3 ]
The Birmingham riot of 1963 was a civil disorder and riot in Birmingham, Alabama, that was provoked by bombings on the night of May 11, 1963. The bombings targeted African-American leaders of the Birmingham campaign. In response, local African-Americans burned businesses and fought police throughout the downtown area.
Jacob Anthony Angeli Chansley (born 1988), [1] also known as the QAnon Shaman, [2] Q Shaman, [1] [3] and Yellowstone Wolf, [4] [5] is an American far-right conspiracy theorist, rioter, [6] politician, media figure, and felon who participated in the January 6 United States Capitol attack, [7] [8] for which he was convicted after a guilty plea [9] on charges of obstructing an official proceeding.
For the Southport riot, far-right activists had been promoting the demonstration that started in Southport, [79] prior to involvement in the riot. [80] HuffPost described far-right activists as having "hijacked" the vigil for the victims, [81] and the Manchester Evening News reported "far right thugs, fuelled by lies, sought to exploit the tragedy". [82]
The advent of the poll tax was due to an effort to alter the way the tax system was used to fund local government in the UK. The system in place until this time was called "rates" and had been in place in some form from the beginning of the 17th century. [1]
Namantar means name change [1] and andolan means social movement. [2] The Namantar Andolan was a 16-year-long Dalit campaign to rename Marathwada University in recognition of B. R. Ambedkar, the jurist, politician and social reformer who had proposed that untouchability should be made illegal.