He was the first foreigner to become director of an American observatory, serving as director of Detroit Observatory from 1854 to 1863.

The Detroit Race Riot ( 1863 ) occurred on March 6, 1863 and was the city's first such incident.

Back in Detroit, James ’ eldest daughter, Ellen Warren Scripps ( 1863 – 1948 ), married George Gough Booth, who subsequently became the publisher of the Evening News Association and independently founded Michigan ’ s Booth Newspapers chain ( acquired by S. I.

* at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York in 1863 ;

Chambers also rowed twice in the Boat Race for Cambridge in 1862 and 1863, losing both times, and coached six Light Blues crews in 1865-66, again defeats, and 1871-74 when Cambridge put together four straight victories, including the first on sliding seats in 1873.

Since the Boat Race moved to this course in 1845, it has always been raced on a flood tide from Putney to Mortlake except in 1846, 1856 and 1863.

* 1863 – Richmond Bread Riot: Food shortages incite hundreds of angry women to riot in Richmond, Virginia and demand that the Confederate government release emergency supplies.

* 1863: New York City Draft Riot

The Boston Draft Riot of July 14, 1863 began on Prince Street in the North End.

* 1943 – The Detroit Race Riot breaks out and continues for three more days.

* 1943: Detroit Race Riot

* July 23 – 12th Street Riot / Detroit Race Riots: In Detroit, Michigan, one of the worst riots in United States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly African American inner city: 43 are killed, 342 injured and 1, 400 buildings burned.

* Who's Who of the Colored Race, Memento Edition Half-Century Anniversary of Negro Freedom in U. S., reprinted by Gale Research Company, Book Tower Detroit, 1976.

*, most of whose mileage is in Wayne County, serves the southern side of the Detroit Metro Airport as well as the Pinnacle Race Course.

Mackinac Island is the destination of both the annual Chicago to Mackinac Sailboat Race, run by the Chicago Yacht Club, and the annual Port Huron to Mackinac Boat Race, sponsored by the Bayview Yacht Club of Detroit, Michigan.

A significant motivation was to gain tax revenues from the DRC ( Detroit Race Course ), which was Michigan's only thoroughbred horse racetrack that closed in 1998.

* The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit ( Princeton Studies in American Politics ) by Thomas J. Sugrue, Princeton University Press ; Revised edition ( August 1, 2005 ), ISBN 978-0-691-12186-4

Tugboat races are held annually on Elliott Bay in Seattle, on the Hudson River at the New York Tugboat Race, the Detroit River, and the Great Tugboat Race and Parade ( 2012 event was on June 29 – 30 ) on the St. Mary's River

Well-informed observers believed that Detroit had extinguished the embers of resentment left over from the 1943 Detroit Race Riot.

* 2005 Race for Mayor ( Detroit )

* 2005 Race for Mayor ( Detroit ) ( Primary Election )

* 2001 Race for Mayor ( Detroit )

Detroit, Michigan's MC5 ( Motor City 5 ) came out of the underground rock music scene of the late 1960s, and displayed an aggressive evolution of garage rock which was often fused with sociopolitical and countercultural lyrics of the era, such as in the songs " Motor City Is Burning " ( a John Lee Hooker cover adapting the story of the Detroit Race Riot ( 1943 ) to the Detroit Insurrection of 1967 ), and " The American Ruse " ( which discusses U. S. police brutality as well as pollution, prison, materialism and rebellion ).

Visions of praxis cited by Race Traitor writers range from anti-racist unionism ( such as DRUM in Detroit ), collaboration in urban uprisings, and documenting and interfering with police abuse of people of color.

The 1943 Detroit Race Riot killed 25 blacks and 9 whites over 36 hours, with federal troops used to restore calm.

* Detroit Race Riot ( 1943 ) Detroit, Michigan ( 1943 )

* 1967 – 12th Street Riot: in Detroit, Michigan, one of the worst riots in United States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly African American inner city.

White flight from the city accelerated after the 1967 Detroit 12th Street Riot.

Hersey also wrote The Algiers Motel Incident, about a racially-motivated shooting by police during the 12th Street Riot in Detroit, Michigan, in 1968.

* July 1967 Detroit Riot web page from PBS ' Eyes on the Prize documentary.

* Detroit Riot of 1967 from Wayne State University's Virtual Motor City Collection.

The riots that swept cities across the country from 1965 to 1967 damaged or destroyed additional areas of major cities — most drastically in Detroit during the 12th Street Riot.

The Livernois-Fenkell Riot was a racially-motivated riot in the summer of 1975 on Livernois Avenue at Chalfonte Avenue, just south of Fenkell Avenue, in Detroit, Michigan.

The book describes an incident which occurred in 1967 in Detroit, Michigan, at about the same time as the racially charged 12th Street Riot.

It aligned itself with radical politics, claiming the 12th Street Riot was justifiable under political and economic conditions in Detroit.

* 1833-June 14, Blackburn Riot in Detroit Thornton Blackburn

In 2011, Detroit based author, Gregory Fournier published his novel, Zug Island: A Detroit Riot Novel.

* 1921 – Tulsa Race Riot: civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

* 1919 – The Chicago Race Riot erupts after a racial incident occurred on a South Side beach, leading to 38 fatalities and 537 injuries over a five-day period.

The mayhem of the Atlanta Race Riot occurred in September 1906 when she was five years old.

A white gang looking for blacks during the Chicago Race Riot of 1919 White-on-Black race riots include the Atlanta Riots ( 1906 ), the Omaha and Chicago Riots ( 1919 ), and the Tulsa Riots ( 1921 ).

The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 grew out of tensions on the Southside, where Irish descendants and African Americans competed for jobs at the stockyards, and where both were crowded into substandard housing.

The 1921 Tulsa Race Riot grew out of black resistance to the attempted lynching of 19-year old shoeshiner Dick Rowland.

: In one of the largest civil disturbances in the city's history, fighting between Swedish, Hungarian and Polish immigrants results in the shooting death of one man and injuring several others before broken up by police .< ref > A Race Riot In Denver.

* 1891: 1st Omaha Race Riot

After the mob is dispersed by police, five Italians are arrested while two others are sent to a local hospital .< ref > Race Riot In Buffalo.

* 1898: Wilmington Race Riot

* 1935: Harlem Race Riot

* 1943: Harlem Race Riot

Race Riot at Argo High School, September 1968

* May 11th Augusta Race Riot ; Augusta, Georgia-May

The Tulsa Race Riot was a large-scale racially motivated conflict on May 31 and June 1, 1921, in which whites attacked the black community of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

The Burning: Massacre, Destruction, and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, New York: St Martin's Press ( 2001 ) at pp. 4, 131-132, 144, 159, 164, 249.

* July 27 – The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 begins when a white man throws stones at a group of four black teens on a raft.

* May 31 – Tulsa Race Riot: The official death toll is 39, but recent investigations suggest the actual toll may be much higher.

** The Buffalo Race Riot begins, lasting until July 1 ; leads to 200 arrests.

He was mayor during the Chicago Race Riot of 1919 and was said to have control of the 75, 000 African-American voters in his day.

In the fall of 1919, following Red Summer, postwar social and economic tensions, the earlier hiring of blacks as strikebreakers, and job uncertainty contributed to a mob from South Omaha lynching Willy Brown and the ensuing Omaha Race Riot.