Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The 1991 Washington, D.C. riot, sometimes referred to as the Mount Pleasant riot, occurred in May 1991 when rioting broke out in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood of Washington, D.C.Mount Pleasant is a Ward One neighborhood in Washington DC, the Ward that former Mayor Marion Barry called the "inner city ward" because it touches none of the surrounding suburbs[citation needed]. The neighborhood was one of the most diverse in the nation comprising a population with roughly equal proportions of black, Hispanic, and white residents, along with populations of Vietnamese, Laotians, Indians, and Koreans.