racial violence
Ethnicity-motivated brutality attacks
Racial violence is physical aggression or harm directed at people because of their race or ethnicity.
The term covers individual hate crimes, mob attacks, lynchings, pogroms, and systematic persecution: The civil rights movement faced constant racial violence.
It encompasses both spontaneous acts and organized campaigns of terror against racial groups.
- lynchingExtrajudicial killing by mob
- racismPrejudice based on ethnicity
- segregationForced separation by group
- white supremacyDoctrine of racial superiority
- slaveryOwnership of people
ethnic cleansing · noose · Jim Crow laws · color line · pogrom · blood libel · scapegoating · apartheid · sundown towns · assault · hate speech · mob rule · genocide · police brutality · trauma · deep wounds · reconciliation efforts · colonialism
- racismracism, white supremacy, bigotry, segregation, hate crime
- racial injusticesystemic racism, institutional racism, discrimination, segregation, Jim Crow
- hate crimeshate crime, antisemitic attack, hate groups, hate crime laws, white supremacy
- Reconstructionfreedmen, Freedmen's Bureau, Fourteenth Amendment, Fifteenth Amendment, carpetbaggers
- homicidehomicide, murder rate, murder rates, homicide rate, homicide rates
- Mississippi HistoryMississippi Delta, Mississippi River, Vicksburg, Jackson, Natchez
racial violenceracial harmony
Peaceful multiethnic coexistence
racial reconciliation · racial integration · racial unity · racial healing · cross-cultural understanding
racial violencenonviolence
Principled rejection of force
peaceful protest · civil disobedience · passive resistance · community building · restorative justice
racial violencenonviolent resistance
Protest through peaceful means
peaceful protest · civil rights activism · racial healing · truth and reconciliation · restorative justice