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Jun 7, 2017 · In San Francisco, the riots led to a wave of political changes, as more and more LGBT politicians were elected over the next decades. LGBT presence on the police forced also dramatically...
The White Night riots were a series of violent events sparked by an announcement of a lenient sentencing of Dan White for the assassinations of George Moscone, the mayor of San Francisco, and of Harvey Milk, a member of the city's Board of Supervisors who was one of the first openly gay elected officials in the United States.
The San Francisco riot of 1877 was a three-day pogrom waged against Chinese immigrants in San Francisco, California by the city's majority Irish population from the evening of July 23 through the night of July 25, 1877.
Apr 18, 2017 · The 1992 Los Angeles riots—also called the Los Angeles uprising—sprung from years of rising tensions between the LAPD and the city’s African Americans, highlighted by the 1991 videotaped...
An essay on the causes of the 1979 "White Night Riots" and the role of harassment by the San Francisco Police in contributing the violent self defence by the large LGBTQ community in the city. Submitted by Reddebrek on February 3, 2017. The morning of November 27, 1978 was a quiet one in San. Francisco.
A march on city hall turned violent with over one hundred injuries reported, twelve police cars burned, and nearly one million dollars in damage done to city hall and the largely gay Castro neighborhood.6 The perceived absurdity of the verdict triggered the riots, but there were several other factors that also lead to the disturbance.
Mar 21, 2019 · Shereen Marisol Meraji/NPR. Strength in numbers. The new group called itself the Third World Liberation Front. It was "a vehicle to politicize students of color," says SFSU historian Jason...
