List of ethnic riots
This is a list of ethnic riots by country, and includes riots based on ethnic, sectarian, xenophobic, and racial conflict. Some of these riots can also be classified as pogroms.
Americas
United States
Nativist period: 1700s–1860
- 1824: Providence, RI – Hard Scrabble Riots
- 1829: Cincinnati, OH – Cincinnati riots of 1829
- 1829: Charlestown, Massachusetts – anti-Catholic Riots
- 1831: Providence, RI
- 1834: Massachusetts – Convent burning
- 1834: Philadelphia, PA – pro-slavery riots
- 1834: New York, NY – New York City pro-slavery riots
- 1835: Boston, MA – pro-slavery riots
- 1835: Five Points Riot
- 1835: Washington, D.C. – Snow Riot
- 1836: Cincinnati, OH – Cincinnati riots of 1836
- 1841: Cincinnati, OH – White Irish-descendant and Irish immigrant dock workers rioted against black dock workers.
- 1844: Philadelphia, PA – Philadelphia Nativist Riots
- 1851: Hoboken, NJ – anti-German riot
- 1855: Louisville, KY – anti-German riots
Reconstruction era: 1865–1877
- 1866: New Orleans massacre of 1866
- 1866: Memphis, Tennessee, mostly ethnic Irish against African Americans
- 1868: Pulaski Riot
- 1868: St. Bernard Parish massacre, St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, whites against blacks
- 1868: Opelousas massacre, Opelousas, Louisiana, whites against blacks
- 1868: Camilla massacre, Camilla, Georgia, whites against blacks
- 1870: Eutaw massacre, Eutaw, Alabama, whites against blacks
- 1870: Laurens, South Carolina
- 1870: New York City Orange Riot
- 1871: Second [New York City Orange Riot]
- 1871: Los Angeles, Chinese massacre. Mixed Mexican and white mob killed 17–20 Chinese in the largest mass lynching in U.S. history
- 1871: Meridian race riot of 1871, Meridian, Mississippi, whites against African Americans
- 1891: New Orleans, lynchings of Italians and riot
- 1873: Colfax massacre, white Democrats against black Republicans
- 1874: New Orleans, Louisiana After contested gubernatorial election, Democrats took over state buildings for three days
- 1874: Coushatta massacre, Coushatta, Louisiana, white Democrats against black Republicans
- 1874–1875: Vicksburg massacre, Vicksburg, Mississippi
- 1875: Yazoo City, Mississippi
- 1875: Clinton, Mississippi
- 1876: Hamburg Massacre
- 1876: Ellenton riot, Ellenton, South Carolina
Jim Crow era: 1878–1914
- 1885: Rock Springs, WY – Anti-Chinese riot
- 1886: Seattle, WA – Seattle riot of 1886
- 1889: Forrest City, AR – 1889 Forrest City riot
- 1891: New Orleans, LA – March 14, 1891 New Orleans lynchings
- 1898: North Carolina – Wilmington Insurrection of 1898
- 1898: Lake City, SC – Lynching of Frazier B. Baker and Julia Baker
- 1898: Greenwood County, SC – Phoenix election riot
- 1900: New Orleans, LA – Robert Charles riots
- 1900: Manhattan, NY – Tenderloin anti-black mob and police riot
- 1904: Springfield, OH – Springfield race riot of 1904
- 1906: Springfield, OH – Springfield race riot of 1906
- 1906: Atlanta, GA – Atlanta Massacre of 1906
- 1906: Brownsville, TX – Brownsville affair
- 1907: Onancock, VA
- 1907: San Francisco, CA and Bellingham, WA – Pacific Coast race riots of 1907
- 1908: Springfield, IL – Springfield race riot of 1908
- 1909: Omaha, NE – Greek Town riot
- 1910: Nationwide – Johnson–Jeffries riots
- 1910: Slocum, TX – Slocum massacre
War and interwar period: 1914–1945
- 1917: East St. Louis, IL – East St. Louis riots
- 1917: Chester, PA – 1917 Chester race riot
- 1917: Philadelphia, PA
- 1917: El Paso, TX – 1917 Bath riots
- 1917: Houston, TX – Houston riot
- 1919: Red Summer
- * Washington, D.C.
- * Chicago race riot of 1919
- * Omaha race riot of 1919
- * Charleston riot of 1919
- * Longview race riot
- * Knoxville riot of 1919
- * Elaine Race Riot
- 1920: Ocoee, FL – Ocoee Massacre
- 1921: Tulsa, OK – Tulsa race massacre
- 1921: Springfield, OH – Springfield race riot of 1921
- 1923: Rosewood, FL – Rosewood massacre
- 1927: Yakima Valley, WA – Yakima Valley riots
- 1928: Wenatchee Valley – Wenatchee Valley anti-Filipino riot
- 1929: Exeter, CA – Exeter anti-Filipino riot
- 1930: Watsonville, CA – Watsonville riots.
- 1935: New York, NY – Harlem riot of 1935
- 1943: Detroit, MI – Detroit race riot
- 1943: Beaumont, TX – Beaumont race riot of 1943
- 1943: New York, NY – Harlem riot of 1943
- 1943: Los Angeles, CA – Zoot Suit Riots
- 1944: Agana, Guam – Agana race riot
Postwar era: 1946–1954
- 1946: Airport Homes race riots Airport Homes race riots
- 1946: Columbia, TN – Columbia race riot of 1946
- 1949: Cortlandt Manor, NY – Peekskill riots
- 1951: Cicero, IL – Cicero race riot
Civil rights and Black Power period: 1955–1977
- 1958: Maxton, NC – Battle of Hayes Pond
- 1962: Oxford, MS – Ole Miss riot
- 1963: Birmingham, AL – Birmingham Riot of 1963
- 1963: Cambridge, MD – Cambridge riot of 1963
- 1963: Lexington, NC – Lexington riot
- 1964: Harlem, NY – Harlem Riot of 1964
- 1964: Rochester, NY – Rochester riot
- 1964: North Philadelphia, PA – Philadelphia 1964 race riot
- 1965: Los Angeles, CA – Watts Riots
- 1966: Humboldt Park, Chicago, IL – Division Street riots
- 1966: Cleveland, OH – Hough Riots
- 1966: Omaha, NE – North Omaha summer riots
- 1966: Dayton, Ohio – 1966 Dayton race riot
- 1967: Long Hot Summer of 1967
- * June 2: Boston riot
- * June 11 – 14: Tampa riot
- * June 12 – June 15: Cincinnati riot
- * June 17: Atlanta riot
- * June 26 – July 1: Buffalo riot
- * July 12 – 17: Newark riots
- * July 14 – 16: Plainfield riots
- * July 17: Cairo riot
- * July 20 – 21: Minneapolis riot
- * July 23 – 25: Toledo riot
- * July 23 – 28: Detroit riot
- * July 24: Cambridge riot
- * July 26: Saginaw riot
- * July 30: Albina riot
- * July 30 – August 3: Milwaukee riot
- 1968: Protests of 1968
- * Orangeburg massacre
- 1968: King-assassination riots
- * Baltimore riot of 1968
- * Chicago West Side riots
- * Louisville riots of 1968
- * 1968 Washington, D.C. riots
- * 1968 Wilmington riots
- 1968: Cleveland, OH – Glenville shootout and riot
- 1969: York, PA – 1969 York Race Riot
- 1969: New York, NY – Stonewall Riot
- 1970: Augusta, GA – May 11 Race Riot
- 1970: Jackson, MS – Jackson State killings
- 1971: Camden, NJ – Camden riots
- 1976: Pensacola, FL – Escambia High School riots
- 1972: Coast of North Vietnam – USS Kitty Hawk Riot
- 1975: Ontario, CA – Chaffey High School race riot enhanced by local sniper
1978 to today
- 1978: Houston, TX – Moody Park Riot.
- 1979: Worcester, MA – Great Brook Valley Projects Riots
- 1980: Miami, FL – Miami riots.
- 1980: Chattanooga, TN – Chattanooga riot
- 1984: Lawrence, MA – 1984 Lawrence Riot.
- 1989: Miami, FL – Overtown riot.
- 1990: Miami, FL – Wynwood riot
- 1991: Brooklyn, New York, NY – Crown Heights riot.
- 1992: Los Angeles, CA – Los Angeles riots
- 1996: St. Petersburg, FL – St. Petersburg riots.
- 2001: Cincinnati, OH – Cincinnati riots.
- 2003: Benton Harbor, MI – Benton Harbor riots
- 2005: Toledo, OH – 2005 Toledo riot.
- 2006: Fontana, CA – Fontana High School riot
- 2006: California – Prison race riots
- 2008: Los Angeles, CA – Locke High School riot
- 2009: Oakland, CA – 2009 Oakland riots.
- 2014–2015: Ferguson, MO – The Ferguson unrest.
- * 2014 August: riots for two weeks after the initial shooting of Brown.
- * 2014 November – December: riots for one week after the police officer who shot Brown was not indicted.
- * 2015 August: riots for two days during the anniversary of Brown's shooting.
- 2015: Baltimore, MD – 2015 Baltimore riots
- 2016: Salt Lake City, UT – Riots sparked by the shooting of Abdullahi Omar Mohamed.
- 2020: Nationwide – racial unrest (2020–2023)|2020 United States riots].