race riot
nounDefinition of race riot
: a riot caused by racial dissensions or hatreds
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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 This would change only when World War I produced a labor shortage which ignited the Great Migration of blacks north, where race riots ensued. — WSJ, "The North Helped Reconstruction’s Failure," 1 June 2018 In 1921, a race riot erupted in Tulsa as white mobs began looting and leveling the affluent black district of Greenwood over reports a black man had assaulted a white woman in an elevator; hundreds are believed to have died. — BostonGlobe.com, "This day in history," 31 May 2018 The course of the intersection, and the surrounding West End neighborhood, was forever changed 50 years ago Sunday when Louisville's deadly race riots erupted there. — Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, "In Louisville's Parkland neighborhood, the scars of 1968 riots are still visible," 26 May 2018 Photo: Bettmann Archive/GETTY IMAGES The pro-Malay policy emerged after 1969 race riots in Kuala Lumpur in which hundreds of ethnic Chinese were killed. — James Hookway, WSJ, "Affirmative Action Drove Many Chinese Malaysians Abroad. Now They’re Thinking About Coming Home.," 17 May 2018 Take Shaw, a historical centre of black culture in Washington which limped into the 1970s as a shadow of itself after a series of race riots. — The Economist, "In praise of gentrification," 21 June 2018 Thousands of black Londoners gathered in protest, the beginning of race riots that rippled through the city. — Ellen Barry, The Seattle Times, "What the royal bride-to-be means to black Londoners," 14 May 2018 Johnson defended his title in Reno, Nevada, in front of a mostly white crowd, prompting violent race riots in which more than 20 people were killed and hundreds were injured. — Dakin Andone, CNN, "Who was Jack Johnson, the boxer who may be pardoned by Trump?," 22 Apr. 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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