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The Straw Hat Riot of 1922 was a riot that occurred in New York City at the end of summer as a result of unwritten rules in men's fashions at the time, and a tradition of taunting people who had failed to stop wearing straw hats after autumn began.
1922 – Straw Hat Riot, occurred September 13 and 14 when gangs of boys stole hats throughout the city and assaulted those who resisted [13] 1926 – Harlem Riots of July 1926. between unemployed Jews and Puerto Ricans over jobs and housing. This riot started on One Hundred and Fifteenth Street (115th), between Lenox and Park Avenues.
A sea of boaters in New York's Times Square, July 1921. Being made of straw, the boater was and is generally regarded as a warm-weather hat. In the days when all men in Western Europe and the US wore hats when out of doors, "Straw Hat Day", the day when men switched from wearing their winter hats to their summer hats, was seen as a sign of the beginning of summer.
New riot photos, details from warrant for E. WA man arrested near Obama home. Cory McCoy. ... He is shown wearing a black hoodie and a “Make Space Great Again” hat, a reference to the U.S ...
1922 – Straw Hat Riot, September 13–15, New York City, New York; 1922 – Perry race riot, December 14–15, Perry, Florida; 1923 – Rosewood Massacre, January 1–7, Rosewood, Florida (race massacre) 1925 – Ossian Sweet incident, September, Detroit, Michigan; 1927 – Yakima Valley Anti-Filipino Riot, November 8–11, Yakima Valley
Photos of the effects of the 1884 courthouse riot A Cincinnati Post story on March 31, 1884: “Rombach & Groene, Photographers, of this city, have just printed some elegant views of our burned ...
Ax Handle Saturday, also known as the Jacksonville riot of 1960, was a racially motivated attack in Hemming Park (since renamed James Weldon Johnson Park) ...
Pro-Palestinian student protesters lock arms at the entrance to Hamilton Hall on the campus of Columbia University, on April 30, 2024, in New York City.