Directory of White Night Riots Resources

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Riots sparked by an announcement of the lenient sentencing of Dan White for the assassinations of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Harvey Milk, an openly gay San Francisco supervisor. The events took place on the night of May 21, 1979 in San Francisco. Taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Night_riots

Subcategories

• Milk, Harvey

Resources in This Category

• Bay Area Reporter - Thirty years ago, the White Night riots inflamed San Francisco

  http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=3931
  Article looking back on what happened and current perspectives.

• Internet Archive - White Night Riot

  http://www.archive.org/details/ssfWhitent1
  Short video of the riot and destruction at City Hall.

• Wikipedia - White Night riots

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Night_riots
  What led to the events and the political aftermath.

 

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