Boston riots: three centuries of social violence

1. The eighteenth-century setting.

2. A variety of riots: food, customs, antielite, and Pope Day riots.

3. The Impressment Riot of 1747.

4. Antebellum Boston: norm enforcement, race, and abolition riots.

5. Anti-catholic rioting in antebellum Boston: the Ursuline convent and the Broad Street riots.

6. Anti-catholic tensions, 1850-1900, and the Draft Riot of 1863.

7. The 1919 Police Strike riots. -8. Ghetto riots, 1967-1968.

9. Antibusing riots, fall 1974.

10. Antibusing riots, 1975-1976.

11. Conclusion.