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In August 2020, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed legislation in response to the protests that made it a felony to participate in certain types of protest. [71] Under the legislation, camping on state property is punishable by six years' imprisonment and the loss of the right to vote . [ 72 ]
This is a list of protests and unrest in the United States between 2020 and 2023 against systemic racism towards black people in the United States, such as in the form of police violence. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Following the murder of George Floyd , unrest broke out in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul area on May 26, 2020, and quickly spread across the ...
The 2014 Ferguson unrest occurred against a backdrop of racial tension between police and the Black community of Ferguson, Missouri in the wake of the police shooting of Michael Brown; similar incidents elsewhere such as the killing of Trayvon Martin sparked smaller and isolated protests.
Map of protests in North America with over 100 participants. Minneapolis-St. Paul is marked in red. (click for a larger, dynamic version of the map) This is a list of protests and unrest in the United States related to the murder of George Floyd.
SOMERVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee man whose violent arrest for alleged traffic violations is under investigation by state police The post Tennessee man violently arrested claims racial ...
Faced with civil unrest, politicians fulfilled promises to remove Confederate symbols. [245] Mississippi voted to retire and replace its state flag. [246] The removal of symbols caused national debate over the appropriateness of statues of figures tied to racial injustice. [247] Public conversations on race and power extended to other cultural ...
A school district in eastern Tennessee has agreed to implement changes after a federal investigation found several incidents of race-based harassment, including students holding a mock “slave ...
The Negro in Chicago: A Study of Race Relations and a Race Riot (1922) on Chicago race riot of 1919; Dobrin, Adam, ed. Statistical handbook on violence in America (Oryx, 1996) hundreds of tables and charts, focused on late 20th century. Feldberg, Michael, The Philadelphia Riots of 1844: A Study of Ethnic Conflict (1975); Feldberg.