Right-wing extremism and anti-government[edit]
- April 19, 1995: Oklahoma City bombing: A truck bomb shattered the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City, killing 168 people. Right-wing terrorists Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were convicted in the bombing.
- July 27, 1996: Centennial Olympic Park bombing by Eric Robert Rudolph occurred in Atlanta, Georgia, during the Atlanta Olympics. One person was killed and 111 injured. In a statement released in 2005 Rudolph said the motive was to protest abortion and the "global socialist" Olympic Movement.
- July 27, 2008: Knoxville Unitarian Universalist church shooting: Jim David Adkisson enters the Tennessee Valley Unitarian UniversalistChurch in Knoxville, Tennessee with a shotgun, killing two and injuring several congregants before being tackled to the ground. Adkisson stated to the police and in a manifesto that he desired to kill Democrats, liberals, African Americans and homosexuals. Adkisson pleaded guilty to the crime in February 2009 and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.[182][183]
- November 1, 2013: 2013 Los Angeles International Airport shooting: 23-year-old Paul Ciancia kills a Transportation Security Administration agent and wounds 7 others, 3 of them TSA agents. Ciancia was shot and taken into custody. A note found in Ciancia's pocket said he believed he was a patriot and wanted to kill "patriot" upset at former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, and that he wanted to kill "TSA and pigs".[184]
- June 8, 2014: 2014 Las Vegas shootings: Two Las Vegas police officers while eating pizza in a restaurant and one civilian were shot to death by Jerad and Amanda Miller, a married couple, in a suicide attack. A Gadsden flag, swastika and a note promising "revolution," was placed on the deceased officers bodies. The couple were thrown out a patriot group defending rancher Cliven Bundy. The Millers were both killed in a shootout with police on the same day.[185][186]
- October 22–, 2018: October 2018 United States mail bombing attempts: At least twelve confirmed packages containing pipe bombs were mailed within the U.S. Postal Service system to several prominent critics of U.S. President Donald Trump, including various Democratic Party politicians (Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Eric Holder, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Maxine Waters, Cory Booker), actor Robert De Niro, billionaire investor George Soros, former CIA Director John O. Brennan, and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. On October 26, a 56-year-old man named Cesar Altieri Sayoc Jr. was arrested by authorities in Plantation, Florida in connection with the explosive devices.[187] The suspect has a criminal history.[188] A white van covered in stickers (several showing support for Donald Trump) was also seized by authorities.[189]
White supremacy[edit]
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- 1951: Wave of hate related terrorist attacks in Florida. Blacks dragged and beaten to death, 11 race related bombings, dynamiting of synagogues and a Jewish School in Miami and explosives found outside Catholic Churches in Miami.[31][32]
- 1988: Frazier Glenn Miller Jr. a Vietnam War veteran and who according to the Southern Poverty Law Center founded the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in the early 1980s served three years in Federal penitentiary for trying to assassinate Morris Dees founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center. The FBI found a cache of weapons in his home after they used tear gas to drive him out and arrest him. He testified against 14 White Supremacists as part of a plea bargain deal.[166]
- January 17, 2011: 2011 Spokane bombing attempt
- August 5, 2012: Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting: Wade Michael Page killed six people at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin before being killed by police officers. During the investigation of the crime, police found out that Page was a member of white supremacist and neo-Nazi organizations. The police concluded that racism and ethnic hatred was the main cause of the murders.
- June 17, 2015: Charleston church shooting: Dylann Roof carried out a mass shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Charleston, South Carolina, United States. The church is one of the United States' oldest black churches and has long been a site for community organization around civil rights. Nine people were killed, including the senior pastor, Clementa C. Pinckney, a state senator. A tenth victim was also shot, but survived. The FBI has not officially classified the act as terrorism, which was met with controversy.[190]
- March 20, 2017: Stabbing of Timothy Caughman: James Harris Jackson, a 28-year-old War in Afghanistan veteran, traveled to New York City from his hometown of Baltimore with the intention of killing black men there. Three days after arriving at New York City, Jackson stabbed Caughman, a black man, to death with an 18-inch sword. He then turned himself in to authorities. Jackson was charged with one count each of murder in the first and second degrees as an act of terrorism, second-degree murder as a hate crime, and three counts of criminal possession of a weapon.
- August 12, 2017: 2017 Charlottesville attack: A driver drove into the front of a crowd of marchers on the street, who witnesses say were counter-protesting the "Unite the Right" rally which began the night before,.[191][192] One person died and 19 were injured.[193][194]
Organized KKK violence[edit]
George W. Ashburnassassinated for his pro-black sentiments.
Date Type Dead Injured Location Details 1865–77Campaign of violence3,000+
Southern United StatesOver 3,000
Freedmen and their
Republican Party allies were killed by a combination of the
Ku Klux Klan and well organized campaigns of violence by local whites in a campaign of terrorist violence that overthrew
Reconstructionist governments in the south and established segregationist regimes that lasted until the mid-20th century.
[195][196]October 22, 1868Assassination10
Little Rock, ArkansasJames M. Hinds, Arkansas congressional representative, was assassinated by a member of the
Ku Klux Klan in
Little RockNovember 10, 1898Riot22+
Wilmington, North CarolinaIn the
Wilmington Insurrection of 1898, white supremacists overthrew the biracial Republican government of Wilmington, North Carolina, killing at least 22 African Americans, marking the beginning of the
Jim Crow era in
North Carolina.1927Campaign of violenceSeveralSeveral
AlabamaThe Ku Klux Klan launched a wave of political terror in
Alabama, attempting to undermine African American rights.December 25, 1951Bombing, assassination20
Mims, FloridaHarry T. Moore state co-coordinator of the Florida
NAACPand his wife were killed by dynamite bomb in his
Mims, Florida home. Despite extensive FBI investigation no one was arrested but Orlando KKK suspected.
[31][32]June 12, 1963Shooting, assassination10
Jackson, MississippiNAACP organizer
Medgar Everswas killed in front of his Mississippi home by member of the
Ku Klux Klan.September 16, 1963Bombing422
Birmingham, Alabama16th Street Baptist Church bombing: A member of the Ku Klux Klan bombed a Church in
Birmingham, Alabama, killing four girls.June 21, 1964Kidnapping and murder30
Philadelphia, MississippiThe
murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner, three civil rights workers, in
Philadelphia, Mississippi by the Ku Klux Klan.March 25, 1965Shooting10
Selma, AlabamaThe Ku Klux Klan murdered
Viola Liuzzo, a Southern-raised white mother of five who was visiting Alabama from her home in Detroit to attend a
civil rights march. At the time of her murder, Liuzzo was transporting Civil Rights Marchers.January 10, 1966Firebombing10
Hattiesburg, MississippiVernon Dahmer died in the firebombing of his own home in Mississippi at the hands of the
Ku Klux Klan.November 3, 1979Shooting55
Greensboro, North CarolinaGreensboro massacre: Members of the Ku Klux Klan and the
American Nazi Party fired on meeting of members of a Communist group who were trying to organize local African American workers in
Greensboro, North Carolina, killing five.March 20, 1981Lynching10
Mobile, AlabamaMichael Donald was randomly selected to be lynched by two Ku Klux Klan members near his Alabama home. He was beaten, had his throat slit, and was hanged.