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1964
Harlem Riot of 1964
1964

Harlem Riot of 1964

A six-day period of rioting started on July 18, 1964, in Harlem after a white off-duty police officer shot and killed an …
1964
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Harlem Riot of 1964

A six-day period of rioting started on July 18, 1964, in Harlem after a white off-duty police officer shot and killed an African American teenager. The rioting spread to Bedford-Stuyvesand and Brownsville in Brooklyn and to South Jamaica, Queens, resulting in the …

Harlem, New York, NY
African American Policing Racial violence
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A six-day period of rioting started on July 18, 1964, in Harlem after a white off-duty police officer shot and killed an African American teenager. The rioting spread to Bedford-Stuyvesand and Brownsville in Brooklyn and to South Jamaica, Queens, resulting in the death of one person and more than 100 injuries. This uprising was part of a broader pattern of racial unrest in urban areas during the 1960s.