race riot

Noun

Meaning

a riot caused by hatred for one another of members of different races in the same community

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Examples

I found myself in the middle of a race riot when I was about 14 years old, and I found someone pointing a gun at me and telling me to run or they'd shoot me. Tracy Chapman

"A Report by the Oklahoma Commission to Study the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921." Source: Internet

Buildings burning during the Tulsa race riot of 1921 A young black Chicagoan, Eugene Williams, paddled a raft near a Southside Lake Michigan beach into "white territory", and drowned after being hit by a rock thrown by a young white man. Source: Internet

Local newspapers alleged that several white women had been assaulted by black men, Godshalk, David Fort. Veiled Visions: the 1906 Atlanta race riot and the reshaping of American race relations. Source: Internet

The Chicago race riot of 1919 grew out of tensions on the Southside, where Irish descendants and African Americans competed for jobs at the stockyards, and where both were crowded into substandard housing. Source: Internet

Dreamland Burning, published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, with its focus on the Tulsa race riot of 1921, raises important questions about the complex state of US race relations - yesterday and today, according to one reviewer. Source: Internet

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