The USS Kitty Hawk riot was a racial conflict between white and Black crewmen aboard the United States Navy aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk on the night of 12–13 October 1972, while positioned in the Gulf of Tonkin off the coast of North Vietnam during the Vietnam War. In a retrospective article many years later, the Navy Times, called it "the worst shipboard riot in U.S. Navy history." When arrests were made, all 25 of those arrested were Black.
The USS Kitty Hawk riot was a racial conflict between white and Black crewmen aboard the United States Navy aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk on the night of 12–13 October 1972, while positioned in the Gulf of Tonkin off the coast of North Vietnam during the Vietnam War. In a retrospective article many years later, the Navy Times, called it "the worst shipboard riot in U.S. Navy history." When arrests were made, all 25 of those arrested were Black.
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