Violence between races, and towards races, has occurred in the South for centuries. Examples of the violence ranges from “the whipping and torture of slaves to slave revolts, from gentlemen’s duels to backwoods feuding, from the brutal backlash against Reconstruction in the 1860s to the massive resistance against civil rights protests in the 1960s”. Other types of violence that occurred in the South were “American Indian Wars, or race riots, or suicide”. Riots were very common in cities throughout the United States during the 1960s. These riots were not limited to whites versus blacks, but they included multiple other races. For example, in Poverty, Segregation, and Race Riots, it mentions violent riots between Jews and African Americans,
