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Chinese Massacre of 1871
Tue Oct 24, 1871
The Chinese Massacre of 1871 was a race riot that occurred on this day in Los Angeles, California when a mob of around 500 white and mestizo people entered Chinatown and attacked, robbed, and murdered Chinese residents.
The massacre took place on Calle de los Negros, also known as "Negro Alley". The mob gathered after hearing that a policeman had been shot and a rancher killed by Chinese immigrants. Historian John Johnson described the ensuing violence as the "largest mass lynching in American history".
An estimated 17 to 20 Chinese immigrants were hanged by the mob in the course of the riot, but most had already been shot to death. At least one was mutilated when someone cut off a finger to get his diamond ring.
Ten members of the mob were prosecuted, eight were convicted of manslaughter. The convictions were overturned on appeal due to various technicalities.
- Date: 1871-10-24
- Learn More: en.wikipedia.org, www.laweekly.com.
- Tags: #Riots, #Massacre.
- Source: www.apeoplescalendar.org
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Holocaust Museum LA deletes post saying 'never again' applies to all people
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Plotes & Prayers: “We'll Pray Taylor Swift Out Of You” in Huntington Beach
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Watts Riots (1965)
Wed Aug 11, 1965
Image: Armed National Guardsmen march toward smoke on the horizon during the street fires in Los Angeles, California, 1965. (Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
On this day in 1965, the Watts Riots began in Los Angeles after police beat Marquette Fry and his family after he was pulled over for drunk driving. The uprising was the largest in city history until the Rodney King riots of 1992, with 34 deaths and $40 million in property damage across a 46 square mile (119 square km) stretch of L.A.
The uprising took place in the context of a highly racialized city, with severely discriminatory housing, educational, and economic practices. The community of Watts was predominantly black and regularly suffered brutality at the hands of police.
After Marquette, along with his brother and mother, were beaten and arrested by police, an angry mob formed and riots broke out. For the next six days, rioters clashed with police and armed National Guardsmen, who had been sent by the thousands to suppress the uprising.
Los Angeles Chief of Police William Parker (incidentally, Parker also coined the phrase "thin blue line" around this time) compared the rioters to the Viet Cong, promising a "paramilitary" response to the disorder. One officer later stated "The streets of Watts resembled an all-out war zone in some far-off foreign country, it bore no resemblance to the United States of America."
Between 31,000 and 35,000 people participated in the riots, while 70,000 people were "sympathetic, but not active" according to John H. Barnhill. Over the six days of rioting, there were 34 deaths (23 of which were the result of police shootings), 1,032 injuries, 3,438 arrests, and over $40 million in property damage.
Following the uprising's suppression, a wave of white flight occurred in surrounding areas, leading to significant demographic changes in areas such as Compton and Huntington Park.
A government committee known as the McCone Commission concluded that the cause of the riots was primarily socio-economic, and recommended reforms along these lines. Most of these recommendations were not adopted.
"The whole point of the outbreak in Watts was that it marked the first major rebellion of Negroes against their own masochism and was carried on with the express purpose of asserting that they would no longer quietly submit to the deprivation of slum life."
- Bayard Rustin
- Date: 1965-08-11
- Learn More: www.blackpast.org, en.wikipedia.org.
- Tags: #Riots.
- Source: www.apeoplescalendar.org
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