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The Harlem riot of 1964 was a race riot that occurred between July 16 and 22, 1964 in the New York City neighborhoods of Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant, United States.It began after James Powell, a 15-year-old African American, was shot and killed by police Lieutenant Thomas Gilligan in front of Powell's friends and about a dozen other witnesses.
On June 21, 1964, three Civil Rights Movement activists, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, were murdered by local members of the Ku Klux Klan.They had been arrested earlier in the day for speeding, and after being released were followed by local law enforcement & others, all affiliated with the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. [1]
The Harlem riot in 1964 is seen as the beginning of a wave of civil unrest that would engulf New York City and begin to be seen in cities throughout the country until calming in 1968 with the last being the King assassination riots. These urban riots were unplanned and mostly attacked property of white owned businesses rather than people ...
The riot had swelled to 2,000 people by 3:30 a.m. and looting had begun on Clinton Avenue, the main thoroughfare in Upper Falls. Governor Rockefeller declared a state of emergency by 9:00 a.m., with the event being officially dubbed a "riot" at that time. The chaos calmed during the day on July 25, 1964, before rioting resumed in force that ...
Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1964 (20 P) Pages in category "1964 deaths" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 4,656 total.
A new Gallup poll shows that 65 percent of Americans now believe JFK was killed on November 22, 1963 as the result of an assassination conspiracy, rejecting the official "Lone Gunman" theory that ...
The 1969 confrontation in People's Park grew out of the counterculture of the 1960s. [1] Berkeley had been the site of the first large-scale antiwar demonstration in the country on September 30, 1964. [2] The late 1960s saw student protests across the United States, such as the 1968 Columbia University and Democratic National Convention ...
1964 - Ghetto riots (1964–1969), beginning with the Harlem riot of 1964 1964 – The Beatles arrive in the U.S., and subsequent appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show , mark the start of the British Invasion (or, an increased number of rock and pop performers from the United Kingdom who became popular around the world, including the U.S.)