1967 Tampa riots

When

Jun 1967

Kind

Riot

Coordinates

27.95° N, 82.46° W

Description

Race riot in Tampa, Florida, USA

Placed at the town its description names, Tampa.

Race riot in Tampa, Florida, USA

The 1967 Tampa riots were a series of race riots during June 1967 in Tampa, Florida, as one of 159 such riots in the United States that summer.The Tampa riots began after a 19-year-old black man named Martin Chambers, who was one of three people suspected of robbing a camera supply warehouse on 421 East Ellasme Street, was fatally shot by a white officer of the Tampa Police Department, Patrolman James Calvert.

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