St Pauls, Bristol the British African-Caribbean community organised the Bristol Bus Boycott to protest against the racist employment policy of the Bristol Omnibus Company which operated a colour bar, refusing employment to non-white workers as bus crews. This policy was overturned in August of that year after sixty days of protest and the action helped establish the Race Relations Act 1968. A riot followed a police raid on the Black and White Café in St Pauls on 2 April 1980. The St Pauls riot started when the police entered the Black and White Café, knowing that the premises was being used for drug
1968 Kansas City, Missouri riot arrest of over one hundred adults, and left five dead and at least twenty admitted to hospitals. 1968 Kansas City, Missouri riot The 1968 Kansas City riot occurred in Kansas City, Missouri, in April 1968. Kansas City became one of 37 cities in the United States to be the subject of rioting after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.. The rioting in Kansas City did not erupt on April 4, like other cities of the United States affected directly by the assassination of King, but rather on April 9 after local events within the city. The first signs of