You missed this:
The six-day LA riots became the most well-chronicled civil uprising in American history, and the largest and most violent since the New York Draft Riots of the mid-19th century.
I suppose those 1863 riots also involved Black people, but not as perpetrators.
The list is skewed by the fact that all these disturbances happened in the last 50 years -- most of them in one single year.
Go back further and things were different.
LOL - I checked out the part of my blood that’s Irish and this isn’t a big surprise. The Irish felt it was unfair ‘elites’ could buy their way out of being drafted... a perfectly reasonable position... (attacking blacks and riotin’ was NOT reasonable though... Irish thugs and all..)
Thanks for sharing x.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_draft_riots
President Abraham Lincoln diverted several regiments of militia and volunteer troops from following up after the Battle of Gettysburg to control the city. The rioters were overwhelmingly working-class men, primarily ethnic Irish, resenting particularly that wealthier men, who could afford to pay a $300 (equivalent to $5,746 in 2015) commutation fee to hire a substitute, were spared from the draft.[4][5]
Initially intended to express anger at the draft, the protests turned into a race riot, with white rioters, mainly but not exclusively Irish immigrants,[3] attacking blacks wherever they could find them. The official death toll was listed at 119