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. 2019 The government has been wary of ethnic tensions ever since deadly race riots in the 1960s. — The Economist, "Singapore’s government is not as unprejudiced as it thinks," 8 Aug. 2019 Dayton's neighborhoods may still be divided along racial lines as one of the nation's most racially segregated cities, a legacy underscored by race riots in the 1960s, but on East Fifth Street, locals say people of all persuasions rub shoulders. — NBC News, "On Dayton's 'little Bourbon Street,' city unites after a mass shooting," 5 Aug. 2019 This summer marks the 100th anniversary of the Chicago race riots of 1919, which were kicked off by the deliberate drowning of a Black kid on the white side of the beach. — Adrienne Samuels Gibbs, Marie Claire, "Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Is Ready to Shake Up the City," 26 June 2019 The 1970s were marked by financial hardship and race riots; the '80s saw a plan to redevelop the city with beachside condominiums, which ultimately failed to take off. — Bridget Hallinan, Condé Nast Traveler, "The Golden Age of Asbury Park," 18 Sep. 2018 On May 30, 1921, thousands of white Tulsans instigated a race riot, brutally attacking the town’s African-American community—machine guns and even airplanes dropping turpentine conspired to destroy Greenwood. — Patrick Sisson, Curbed, "10 Streets that Changed America," 5 July 2018 After the 1992 race riots in Los Angeles, his residential house invited students to post their feelings on a wall—a literal, brick-and-mortar one. — Andrew Rice, WIRED, "This Is Ajit Pai, Nemesis of Net Neutrality," 16 May 2018These 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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