Justice Clarence Thomas says blacks didn’t think about race in the 1950s South.

[Bortman33]

35. Well, there were only three lynchings

of blacks in the 60's, which was 50% less then the 50's, and since Clarence wasn't one of them, it must have been okay! Not to mention the list of 15 race riots below the lynching chart - naw, there were no problems between whites and Clarence in the 60's.

Thanks to the Chestnutarchive.org for the following table

Year Blacks
Lynched

1884 51
1885 74
1886 74
1887 70
1888 69
1889 94
1890 85
1891 113
1892 161
1893 118
1894 134
1895 113
1896 78
1897 123
1898 101
1899 85
1900 106
1901 105
1902 85
1903 84
1904 76
1905 57
1906 62
1907 58
1908 89
1909 69
1910 67
1911 60
1912 62
1913 51
1914 51
1915 56
1916 50
1917 36
1918 60
1919 76
1920 53
1921 59
1922 51
1923 29
1924 16
1925 17
1926 23
1927 16
1928 10
1929 7
1930 20
1931 12
1932 6
1933 24
1934 15
1935 18
1936 8
1937 8
1938 6
1939 2
1940 4
1941 4
1942 6
1943 3
1944 2
1945 1
1946 6
1947 1
1948 1
1949 3
1950 1
1951 1
1952 0
1953 0
1954 0
1955 3
1956 0
1957 0
1958 0
1959 1
1960 0
1961 1
1962 0
1963 1
1964 1
1965 0
1966 0
1967 0
1968 0

Rochester 1964 race riot 24–26 July 1964[6]

Harlem Riot of 1964 16-22 July 1964, New York City, New York, provoked by the NYPDs shooting of black teenager James Powell.

Philadelphia 1964 race riot 28–30 August 1964, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, Allegations of police brutality sparked the Columbia Avenue race riots.[6]

Watts Riots 11 August 1965, Los Angeles, California, USA, The McCone Commission investigated the riots finding that causes included poverty, inequality, racial discrimination and the passage, in November 1964, of Proposition 14 on the California ballot overturning the Rumford Fair Housing Act, which established equality of opportunity for black home buyers.[7]

Hough Riots 18 July 1966, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, The underlying causes of the riots may found in the social conditions that exist in the ghettos of Cleveland.[8]

Racial tension in Omaha, Nebraska 5 July 1966, North Omaha, Nebraska, USA, More than 500 black youth gathered to protest the absence of recreation programs and jobs storm a local business district, throwing rocks and bricks at Jewish-owned businesses in the area. The National Guard is called in after three days of random violence and organized raids.[9]

1967 Newark riots 12 July 1967, Newark, New Jersey, USA, Factors that contributed to the Newark Riot: police brutality, political exclusion of blacks from city government, urban renewal, inadequate housing, unemployment, poverty, and rapid change in the racial composition of neighborhoods.[10]

1967 Plainfield riots 14 July 1967, Plainfield, New Jersey, USA 12th Street riot 23 July 1967, Detroit, Michigan, USA, The origins of urban unrest in Detroit were rooted in a multitude of political, economic, and social factors including police abuse, lack of affordable housing, urban renewal projects, economic inequality, black militancy, and rapid demographic change.[11]

Minneapolis-Saint Paul USA, Fall 1967. Racial tensions boil over in North Minneapolis as whites continue to leave the decaying core of the inner city bound for the suburbs.

1968 Chicago, Illinois riots 4 April 1968 Violence erupted in Chicago's black ghetto on the west side, eventually consuming a 28-block stretch of West Madison Street. Looting and arson took place primarily in the corridor between Roosevelt Road on the south and Chicago Avenue on the north.

1968 Washington, D.C. riots 4 April 1968, Washington, D.C., USA, A report from National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders identified discrimination and poverty as the root causes of the riots that erupted in cities around the nation during the late 1960s and in Washington, DC in April 1968[12]

Baltimore riot of 1968 4 April 1968, Baltimore, Maryland,

USA Glenville Shootout 23 July 1968, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, Shootout between black militant organization led by Ahmed Evans and Cleveland Police Department attracted large and hostile black crowds that caused a 4 day long riot Stonewall riots June 1969, New York City, New York, a turning point for the modern U.S. gay rights movement.

1969 North 24th Street Riots 24 June 1969, North Omaha, Nebraska USA, An Omaha police officer fatally shoots a teenager in the back of the head during a gathering of youth in local public housing projects. Many youth and adults from the local African American community gather in the local business district, routinely burning and otherwise destroying non-Black-owned businesses.[13]