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History of race riots

There is a long history of racial tension between White and Black citizens in Cincinnati that have erupted in violence.

1829 - Riots begun by Whites to terrorize the Black community resulted in thousands of Blacks leaving for Canada, a portion of whom founded the Wilberforce Colony in Ontario.
1836 - A pro-slavery riot took place.
1841 - White Irish-descendant and Irish immigrant dock workers rioted against Black dock workers. When the Black dock workers banded together to defend their community from the approaching Whites, the White rioters retreated and then commandeered a 6-pound cannon and shot it through the streets of Cincinnati.
1967 - the first riot initiated by Blacks occurred. The incident which sparked the violence was a domestic dispute between a Black couple which had gunfire involved but turned quickly into a race riot.
1968 - After Martin Luther King Jr.'s death riots raged nationwide. In the riots in Cincinnati two people died.
2001 - The 2001 Cincinnati riots were a reaction to the fatal shooting of Timothy Thomas, a 19-year-old black male, by Steven Roach, a white police officer, during an on-foot pursuit by several officers.

After over a year without sources, I think this section can stay on the talk page until some citations can be scraped together. --Hamitr (talk) 01:31, 15 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]