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Mass racial violence in the United States
Mass racial violence in the United States, also called
race riots, can include such disparate events as:
- conflict between Americans and recent European immigrants in the 19th and 20th centuries.
- attacks on Native Americans and Americans over the land.
- violence involving Latin American immigrants in the 20th century.
- racially based communal conflict involving African Americans occurring following the American civil war.
- frequent fighting among various ethnic groups in major cities, specifically in the northeast and midwest United States throughout the late 19th century and early 20th century. This example was made famous in the stage musical West Side Story and its film adaptation.
- Mass violence and looting in African-American communities, such as the 1967 nationwide riots in most major US cities that led to over 100 deaths, and the 1968 riots following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr which were as widespread and deadly.
- Violent protests and riots resulting from police brutality against African Americans which gained widespread notoriety in the 2010s, and the tensions ignited after particular incidents such as the killings of Trayvon Martin (2012), Micheal Brown, Jr (2014) and Freddie Gray (2015).