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Episodes tagged "Riot": 1 through 3 of 3

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  1. Pratt Street Riot Claims Four Soldiers
    date April 19, 1961map Baltimore, Marylandtags Riot, Pratt Street, Sixth Massachusetts

    Just a week after the attack on Fort Sumter, tempers flared in Baltimore, Maryland.  Secessionist and southern sympathizers in Baltimore orchestrated a riot against Union soldiers while they traveled through the city on their way to Washington D.C, that left four soldiers and twelve civilians dead.  As stated in the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion, “A clash between pro-South civilians...

  2. Christiana Riot Trial for Treason
    date November 24, 1851map PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvaniatags Fugitive Slave Act, Christiana, Riot

    The slave owner Edward Gorsuch traveled to Pennsylvania, along with several men, two of whom were federal marshals, to retrieve six of his slaves that had escaped from his plantation years earlier.  Gorsuch planned to confront William Parker, the owner of a tenant house, about harboring his fugitive slaves.  An altercation between the two groups of people developed and Gorsuch was killed during the...

  3. The 1966 Hough Riots
    date July 18, 1966 to July 24, 1966map Cuyahoga, Ohiotags Race-Relations, Riot, Cleveland

    During the late night hours of July 18, 1966, 26-year-old Joyce Arnett walked through Cleveland’s Hough neighborhood with two friends. As they approached E. 83rd Street, police officers ushered them into the second floor of a nearby building. The police presence had recently arrived to disperse a large crowd that had gathered on the street. Mrs. Arnett, a mother of three who lived nearby, ventured...