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In 1964, a white, off-duty policeman killed a Black teenager in New York. That led to the now-infamous Harlem race riots.
In 1935, the "first modern American race riot" took place in Harlem. In 1935, the police were called on Lino Rivera, a 16-year-old Black Puerto Rican, who stole a pen knife from a dime store.
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The East St. Louis Riot
At the end of a July 8 meeting in Harlem to discuss the violence ... he is now sucked into the vortex of American race relations." Similar race riots occurred across the country during this ...