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359. The Hunters Point social uprising (also known as the Hunters Point Riot or Rebellion) broke out in the Hunters Point neighborhood of San Francisco on the night of September 27, 1966, after San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) officer Alvin Johnson shot and killed Matthew Johnson, a teenager who was fleeing the scene of a stolen car.
Dec 19, 2017 · The Hunter’s Point Uprising began on September 27, 1966, and lasted three days. At that time, it was the largest riot in San Francisco, California, since the anti- Chinese riots almost 90 years earlier. The uprising began when police chased and attempted to arrest three teenagers—Darrell Mobley, 14; Clifton Bacon, 15; and Matthew “Peanut ...
Screaming women flee the violence during the Bayview-Hunter's Point riots of 1966. Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library Around six in the evening, a few hours after Governor Pat Brown authorized the use of the National Guard and Highway Patrol, the police responded to alleged gunfire by opening up on the Bayview Community ...
May 29, 2019 · As a result, more than 50 years after the Hunters Point uprising, African Americans in Hunters Point and across the Bay Area remain segregated and marginalized in similar ways. According to the 2010 US Census, the population in Hunters Point and its neighbor Bayview was 33.7 percent Black, compared to the 6 percent residing in San Francisco ...
Hunter's Point residents during confrontation with police violence, September 1966. Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library "During the 1960s there were riots in some cities. The carryover here was, they called it a riot out at Hunters' Point. A policeman had shot a 17-year-old kid who had stolen a car.
Sep 27, 2021 · – Photo: Chicago Daily Defender. The community turned out in force for the funeral of Matthew “Peanut” Johnson, 16, whose murder by SFPD on Sept. 27, 1966, 50 years ago, caused an explosion of protest known as the Hunters Point Uprising, the second major “riot” in the U.S. of the turbulent ‘60s. Note that, unlike in many other ...
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Sep 30, 2016 · On September 27, 1966 a riot broke out in San Francisco's Hunters Point, a black neighborhood, when a white police officer shot and killed an unarmed seventeen-year-old African American, Matthew ...
