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	Out Of The Past (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		White had abruptly resigned from the board and then asked to be reinstated, a request which Moscone denied.
		When White went on trial for the murders, the jury found him guilty only of two counts of voluntary manslaughter, convinced by the defense team that White was a "family man" derailed by stress, depression and junk food.
		The news of White's light sentence (only seven years and eight months in prison) sparked a night of rioting that came to be known as the "White Night" riots.
	www.pbs.org /outofthepast/past/p5/1978.html (291 words)

	White Night Riots - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The same issue of the San Francisco Chronicle reporting White's light sentence included a report that Berkeley Professor Angela Davis received 20 years prison for storing rifles in her garage.
		The second of the riots was a police riot.
		Later that night, after order was restored downtown, a number of SFPD cars headed into the Castro District.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/White_Night_Riots (392 words)

	White Night Riot
		The defense invoked the now-famous Twinkie Defense, that Dan White was losing it because of the pressure in his life, eating too much junk food as one of the symptoms and causes of his temporarily insane behavior.
		Dan White's murders of Moscone and Milk drastically altered the political direction of San Francisco, from a pro-neighborhood, populist regime to the traditional conservative, Chamber of Commerce administration of Dianne Feinstein, but that outcome seemed incidental to the psychotic breakdown suffered by Dan White and the ensuing havoc he wrought.
		The riot had progressed, as San Francisco riots do, from the initial angry crowd (in this case, of gays) to a gradual influx of angry young fl and brown men who are spoiling for a chance to even the odds with the cops.
	www.shapingsf.org /ezine/gay/files/whitengt.htm (716 words)

	Los Angeles Riots-Series of Reports
		Officers were seen at several locations to be wearing the standard "riot gear" that is used during periods of unrest and to protect officers was assaults.
		City residents are said to be "holding their breath" and praying that the seemingly isolated "lawlessness" doesn't spread to engulf the entire city in vengence for the actions of a jury that made a decision.
		As night settled over several cities, residents took to their homes, prayed for an end to senseless violence, and waited for the morning light to see if the fragile peace was to endure.
	www.emergency.com /la-riots.htm (3242 words)

	Harvey Milk Summary
		White was found guilty, on May 21, 1979, of two counts of voluntary manslaughter; after the announcement, a crowd besieged City Hall and police stormed the Castro.
		White entered City Hall through an open basement window in order to avoid detection of the gun he was carrying and 10 extra rounds of ammunition he carried in his pocket.
		White was convicted of voluntary manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility and sentenced to seven years and eight months, a sentence widely denounced as lenient and motivated by homophobia.
	www.bookrags.com /Harvey_Milk (4041 words)

	Harvey Milk
		White had resigned previously following the enactment of a gay rights bill which he had opposed.
		White was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to seven years and eight months, a sentence widely denounced as lenient and motivated by homophobia.
		Lawyers had prevented anyone pro-gay from serving on the jury, and had brought in a psychologist to testify that his actions had partly stemmed from depression due to overconsumption of junk food (the Twinkie Defense).
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ha/Harvey_Milk.html (495 words)

	The White Ethnic Narrative
		Whiteness is a privilege that sociologist Ruth Frankenberg describes as a series of cultural practices that permit Whites to not be aware of the privileges and dominance into which they are born.
		Whites do not notice that their daily environments are generally made up almost entirely of other Whites; even in homogeneous environments, Whites believe themselves to be diverse.
		Whites need not confront the dissonance between their egalitarian beliefs and what psychological studies have measured, unconscious harsh discriminatory treatment of minorities, because their rationalizations are not contested.
	academic.udayton.edu /race/01race/white06.htm (6493 words)

	American Experience \| Zoot Suit Riots \| People & Events
		White men went off to fight in a segregated military, and women and people of color filled the jobs in the defense industry previously reserved for white males.
		While white military men and civilian youth of all colors clashed in the streets, confrontations occurred most frequently between white servicemen and Mexican Americans, because they were the largest minority group in Los Angeles.
		As the second night of rioting began, Mexican American young men drove back and forth in front of the Armory, hurling epithets at the guards.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/zoot/eng_peopleevents/e_riots.html (1872 words)

	College drinking
		During the night of their most recent flout, most students drank either liquor alone or in combination with beer.
		White and colleagues (in press) reported that half (25/50) of the college students they interviewed, more females than males, were frightened by their most recent flout experience.
		After a night of drinking at a bar with her roommates, she awoke with no memory of the events of the preceding night.
	www.duke.edu /~amwhite/College/college9.htm (1524 words)

	Gangs and the 1919 Race Riot
		The history of this riot, and the crucial role of white gangs, is told in the 1922 report of The Chicago Commission on Race Relations.
		The incident which sparked the riot was the drowning of a fl youth after he drifted onto a white area of a beach, on a hot, 96 degree day.
		The worst of the white gangs were "Ragen's Colts," a gang whose turf extended from Cottage Grove to Ashland and from Forty-third to Sixty-third Street.
	www.uic.edu /orgs/kbc/ganghistory/IndustrialEra/Riotbegins.html (1294 words)

	Healthbolt » There Never Was A “Twinkie” Defense
		The expression is derived from the 1979 trial of Dan White, a former San Francisco, California (U.S.) Supervisor who assassinated Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk on November 27, 1978.
		During the trial, a noted psychiatrist, Martin Blinder, testified that White had been depressed at the time of the crime, successfully arguing for a ruling of diminished capacity, and White was thus judged incapable of the premeditation required for a murder conviction; instead, White was convicted of voluntary manslaughter.
		White was known to be a devout Catholic, politically conservative, and homophobic.
	healthbolt.net /2006/12/09/there-never-was-a-twinkie-defense (699 words)

	AlterNet: The Invisible Whiteness of the Olympic Beer Riot
		Since the mid-'90s, white riots have occurred on more than twenty college campuses, mostly as the result of crackdowns on underage drinking or earlier closing times for local bars.
		In the wake of riots at Michigan State and Colorado University, neighbors in the riot zone and local police sought to "reach out," to attempt to "understand their frustrations," referring to the students who had just trashed their streets.
		For whites, drinking and rioting are merely two more things we can do without facing the risk or stigma encountered by people of color who might do the same things.
	www.alternet.org /story/12479 (1597 words)

	Night Pants White
		White Night Riots - The White Night Riots, beginning on May 21, 1979, were the San Francisco, California, gay community's response to the minimal sentence given to former San Francisco City Supervisor Dan White for killing George Moscone, then Mayor of San Francisco and Harvey Milk, an...
		White Dress Pants - White Dress Pants The Night of the White Pants - The Night of the White Pants is an upcoming film directed by Amy Talkington.
		Man White Dress Pants - Man White Dress Pants Man in White - The Man In White is an experimental networked narrative that involved a group of students from the School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT), one dressed entirely in white, walking around the busier thouroughfares in Vancouver, BC towing...
	wh26.gpnotp.com /nightpantswhite.html (1109 words)

	HDM_4_Solnit
		Dia de los Muertos is a major holiday in Mexico, born of the mingling of Catholicism with the festive attitude toward death of the country’s earlier cultures.
		Ten years ago the crowd seemed dominated by punks, who thought the iconography of death was cool, but most of the people this year seemed to recognize the event as a remembrance of the recently deceased and promenaded with more tender, subdued jubilance.
		The demonstrators—mostly white countercultural types along with a few cheery-looking Nigerian exiles—were led by a huge, exuberant-faced puppet of Saro-Wiwa clad in African fabric, followed by other puppets, drummers, sign-carriers, and stilt-walkers, a protest worth looking at for office workers on their break.
	www.gsd.harvard.edu /research/publications/hdm/back/4solnit.html (3204 words)

	Harvey Milk St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture - Find Articles
		White's allegiances made him almost the political opposite of Milk: he represented a more conservative, Irish, working-class constituency.
		White was found guilty, on May 21, 1979,; of two counts of voluntary manslaughter; after the announcement, a crowd besieged City Hall and police stormed the Castro.
		One hundred homosexuals and 61 police officers were hospitalized; the evening's events were subsequently termed the "White Night Riots." White was paroled in 1985; unable to obtain employment, he committed suicide before the end of the year.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419200836 (764 words)

	Sketchy Thoughts: Riots Against Racism: Paris is Burning
		Rioting spreads west-ward to the area of Hauts-de-Seine where a police station was bombarded with home-made Molotov cocktails.
		Rioting is also reported outside of the Paris area, notably in Dijon, where several; cars were set on fire.
		When you'll be beaten up by young africans just because you are white, when your car will burn, and your daugthers will have to go out in the streets with a veil on their heads in order to be left in peace by those "youngs", then you'll think again.
	sketchythoughts.blogspot.com /2005/11/riots-against-racism-paris-is-burning.html (1793 words)

	CNN - Tulsa panel seeks truth from 1921 race riot - August 3, 1999
		The Tulsa Race Riot Commission, formed two years ago to determine exactly what happened, will consider next week the controversial issue of what, if any, reparations should be paid to the known survivors of the riot, a group of less than 100 that includes Smith, now 92, and Booker, 86.
		On the night of May 31, 1921, mobs called for the lynching of Dick Rowland, a fl man who shined shoes, after hearing reports that on the previous day he had assaulted Sarah Page, a white woman, in the elevator she operated in a downtown building.
		As groups of both fls and whites converged on the Tulsa courthouse, a white man in the crowd confronted an armed fl man, a war veteran, who had joined with other fls to protect Rowland.
	www.cnn.com /US/9908/03/tulsa.riots.probe (878 words)

	CPL Chicago 1919 Race Riots
		By this time rioting had already erupted there precipitated by vocal and physical demonstrations against a group of fls who wanted to use the beach in defiance of its tacit designation as a "white" beach.
		The rioting escalated when a white police officer refused to arrest the white man, by now identified as the perpetrator of the separate incident near 26th Street.
		Coroner's Report of 1919 are followed by his recommendations to deal with the festering social and economic conditions that were the underlying factors of the riots.
	www.chipublib.org /004chicago/disasters/riots_race.html (381 words)

	Bacon Press: The White Party
		The white asparagus and mushrooms are sautéed and then cooked in a reduced chicken stock sauce.
		The chops marinate in a cardamom, garlic, white pepper dry rub for at least an hour, after which some of the garlic is scraped off and the chops are fried.
		For the presentation part, take the white onion that has been cut into large rings and carefully take the full rings, place them on something sturdy, like a cast iron skillet and broil them directly under the oven broiler, until the begin to color.
	baconpress.blogspot.com /2005/05/white-party.html (2420 words)

	Uncle Donald's Castro Street - White Night Riot
		White was given a 7-year sentence (in truth, 4 years) for killing two of our leaders.
		Several hundred police in riot gear stood in formation at the corner, watching the activity, but they were not allowed to respond, a wise decision on the part of the administration.
		We showed that we weren't out of control then, or the previous night (White Night- as it came to be called).
	thecastro.net /milk/whitenight.html (898 words)

	Stonewall riots Summary
		As the patrons were roughly hustled out of the bar, it was those most used to confrontations with the police (drag queens, street people, students, and a few butches), who were in the vanguard of the resistance.
		The Stonewall riots, which as a whole are often called the Stonewall Rebellion, were a series of violent conflicts between gay men and women and police officers in New York City.
		The first night of rioting began on Friday night-Saturday morning, June 27-28, 1969 not long after 1:20 a.m., when police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Greenwich Village.
	www.bookrags.com /Stonewall_riots (3179 words)

	SFPD: SFPD History
		The Telegraph system, designed in part to mobilize officers quickly in case of disorder, was first put to the test in April, 1865 on the occasion of the riots which followed the arrival of the news of President Lincoln's assassination in the strongly Unionist city.
		Much of the disorder during the 1870s was rooted in anti-Chinese sentiments, which culminated in the Great Riot of July 1877, in which it was shown that the Department was sadly understaffed to deal with the emergency.
		The manslaughter verdict and the relatively light sentence resulted in the siege of City Hall during the "White Night" riots.
	www.sfgov.org /site/police_index.asp?id=20204 (3714 words)

	Queeruption Alt Queer History
		The GLF was formed in the aftermath of the Stonewall Riots of June 1969, when queers resisted a police raid on the Stonewall Inn in New York.
		The 'White Night' riots were a response to the manslaughter verdict given in the trial of Dan White, who shot local gay politician Harvey Milk.
		These are the people we'd rather be marching with, not those rich and powerful gays who use the authority of political office and the boardroom to prop up a society that tolerates 'good' middle class gays at the expense of the multitude of 'disreputable' queers.
	www.queeruption.org /alt-queer-history.htm (1102 words)

	PZ10! News - RaceriotsshameAustralia
		The riots have created panic among residents of the beachfront, many of whom are contemplating relocating since they no longer feel safe.
		Last night Sydney police, reinforced by state units, were in a state of readiness for more trouble, a sign on a wall proclaiming: “The war has just begun”.
		The riots have caused national soul-searching regarding what has come to be known as the Australian way of life.
	www.pz10.com /news/detail/962/80/RaceriotsshameAustralia.html (790 words)

	Former D.A. Joseph Freitas Jr. dies in Paris at 66
		Because of the role he played in the White case, any recounting of Freitas' career inevitably opens the book on one of the most painful passages in the history of San Francisco.
		White was a former policeman and an ex-fireman with strong roots in the city's Irish Catholic community and a conservative record.
		White's lawyer, Doug Schmidt, effectively used the financial and family pressures on White to help paint a portrait of a 32-year-old, good-hearted man incapable of the premeditation and deliberation that the law required for a jury to find White had committed murder.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/04/19/MNGSOIAHA643.DTL (1633 words)

	Suchmaschine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Learning of this, White entered City Hall through an open basement window in order to avoid detection of the gun he was carrying and 10 extra rounds of ammunition he carried in his pocket.
		White reloaded his weapon and made his way to the opposite side of City Hall, where he confronted Milk.
		Then, riots began to break out with the mob setting ablaze a number of police vehicles, disrupting traffic, smashing windows of cars and stores, buses had their overhead wires ripped down, and physical violence resulted against the outnumbered police officers.
	www.dmoz.ch /lexikon.cgi?sprache=en&q=Harvey_Milk (1897 words)

	Dan White (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Dan White resigns his elected position on San Francisco's Board of Supervisors.
		A judge gives Dan White only seven years for the premeditated murders of Harvey Milk and Mayor Moscone, prompting thousands to march on San Francisco's City Hall.
		In what will come to be known as the White Night Riots, the demonstration takes a violent turn, resulting in significant property damage and the torching of twelve SFPD cruisers.
	www.rotten.com /library/bio/crime/assassins/dan-white (222 words)

	Unusual Clothing
		Ten years ago the crowd seemed dominated by punks who liked the iconography of death because it was cool, but most of the people this year seemed to recognize the event as a remembrance of the recently deceased and promenaded with more tender, subdued jubilance.
		The demonstration, made up of a majority of white countercultural types and a minority of cheery-looking Nigerian exiles, was led by a huge, exuberant-faced puppet of Saro-Wiwa clad in African fabric, followed by other puppets, drummers, sign-carriers, and stilt-walkers, a protest worth looking at for the office workers on their break.
		And it was about relative strangers finding a common purpose in public, communicating their beliefs to passersby, and most of all, making use of civic space to act as citizens--to engage in political and cultural dialogue with each other and with strangers.
	www.walksf.org /essays/unusualClothingEssay.html (2862 words)

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