Most of the violence -- drive-by shootings, beatings, and arson -- targeted the African American community. The riots raged for nearly a week, leaving nine whites and hundreds of African Americans ...

Exploring the history of American lynching from Chicago to New Orleans, the Citizens Club of Springfield recently presented ...

In the wake of the Watts riots –– and other similar events around the country –– Dr. Karenga searched for a way to bring unity to the African Americans. He founded the cultural ...

The tense atmosphere would explode that summer in New York City, in the worst riots in American history. The May 1, 1863 New York Tribune summed up many Northerners' feelings about African ...

A cauldron of resentment, anti-authority, and racial tensions rise as the city becomes a battleground for Irish immigrants and the African American communities, who have been manipulated by ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- It was while researching the history of African-Americans in Oklahoma that Barbara Nevergold, Ph.D., of the University at Buffalo came across the name of Andrew J. Smitherman in the ...

representing half of the destruction in the citywide riots. Mr. Lee described the complex roots of the tensions between Korean and African American residents. “To Korean newcomers,” he wrote ...

Gordon Parks / Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division It was June 1943 when the riots broke out ... zoot suit—the term came out of African-American slang—but it was actually ...

It lives today where every successful Black American — especially a Black American woman — is being libeled as a “DEI Hire” ...

In this 1919 photo provided by Chicago History Museum, a crowd of men and armed National Guard stand in front of the Ogden Cafe during race riots in Chicago. Red Summer, as the summer of 1919 came ...

Cummins, Guy M. Bryan Chair of American History at Austin College. In recent years, the call for recognition gained new ...