This week of violence would soon become known as the New York City Draft Riots. Contemporaries found themselves aghast at the scope of the riots’ destruction, estimating over twelve hundred ...

July 13th, 1863, New York ... the city becomes a battleground for Irish immigrants and the African American communities, who have been manipulated by powerful players. 🏢🔥 As anti-draft ...

The Harlem race riot of 1964 sparked a summer of riots in six other cities — Rochester, New York; Dixmoor, Illinois; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; as well as Jersey City, Paterson, and Elizabeth ...