The riots were sparked when the white bar owner of the Seventy-Niners Cafe at Hough Ave. and E. 79th St. denied a Black takeout customer a glass of water on the evening of 18 July. Police were ...

Additionally, Black men were excluded from the draft, brewing hostility in the white working class. When a lottery was announced in mid-July, riots broke out in New York, Boston, and Detroit.

That was the first day of riots that shaped ... Today, the same Black neighborhoods plagued by poverty six decades ago are still held in its grip. July 24, 1964: a day that inspired change ...

The race riot, initiated by a white woman’s claim that a Black man raped her ... from a white officer’s killing of Sonya Massey in July. An investigation into her death remains ongoing.

Residents of the capital city of Colombo, Sri Lanka, walk amid the charred remains of a market following five days of riots and fire ... the 40th anniversary of Black July this week.