Which of the Following Is True Regarding "Race Riots

question 22

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is true regarding "race riots"?

• A) Practically all of the many U.S. racial riots from the 1840s to the 1930s were characterized by whites attacking black Americans or other Americans of color.
• B) In 1863, during the Civil War, hundreds of white workers in New York City rioted over new draft laws and the use of black workers to break a strike.
• C) The decades after the Civil War saw many killings of black men, women, and children by white mobs.
• D) In 1919 alone there were major white riots in Longview, Texas; Phillips County, Arkansas; Washington, DC; Chicago, Illinois; Knoxville, Tennessee; and Omaha, Nebraska.
• E) All the above

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