race riot
nounDefinition of race riot
: a riot caused by racial dissensions or hatreds
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In 1967, the year the Stooges formed, Detroit had been flattened by race riots, in which forty-three people were killed, hundreds were injured, and nearly fourteen hundred buildings were burned, mostly in black neighborhoods. — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, "The Survival of Iggy Pop," 26 Aug. 2019 Combating hate O'Rourke's Oklahoma stops included a Monday visit to the site of a 1921 race riot known as the Greenwood massacre. — Gromer Jeffers Jr., Dallas News, "Beto O'Rourke, taking retooled message to Oklahoma, calls Trump a racist 'demagogue'," 19 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'race riot.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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