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4 days ago · The Stonewall riots, also known as the Stonewall uprising, Stonewall rebellion, or simply Stonewall, were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City.
4 days ago · Stonewall riots, series of violent confrontations that began in the early hours of June 28, 1969, between police and gay rights activists outside the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in the Greenwich Village section of New York City.
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1 day ago · While violence has always been found in prison films, according to Wilson and O’Sullivan , Riot (Castle & Kulik, 1969) marks a turning point in how violence is portrayed in these movies. It depicts the tale of inmates attempting to dig their way to freedom, during which time other prisoners take hold of the prison and a standoff begins.
5 days ago · In the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City’s Greenwich Village, was raided by the police. Nearly 400 people joined a riot that lasted 45 minutes and resumed on succeeding nights.
5 days ago · A woman tumbled to the ground after someone punched her in the face and shoved her over a concrete barrier at the fountain in New York City's Washington Square Park Sunday. (FNTV) Another clip ...
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2 days ago · On Saturday, June 29, the Stonewall National Museum and Archives hosted the first known recreation of the Stonewall Riots of June 29, 1969. The riots were the start of the modern LGBTQ rights movement. “I hope people take, from this labor of love, the clear message that we can never be complacent,” Stonewall Museum Executive Director Robert ...
1 day ago · George Floyd protests, May 26 – Following the murder of George Floyd, protests and civil unrest against police brutality and systemic racism began in Minneapolis and quickly spread across the United States and the world, on a scale unseen since the unrest of the summers of 1967 and 1968.
