Notting Hill Riots Vedant Singh September 6‚ 1958 The event and the trigger The Aftermath The sentencing of the nine white youths arrested during the riots has passed into judicial lore as an example of "exemplary sentencing" – a harsh punishment to act as a deterrent to others. Each of the youths received five years in prison and they were to also pay £500. Another‚ entirely unrelated‚ riot occurred many years later in 1976 at the conclusion of the Notting Hill
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2. Why are fictional historical films appealing to audiences? Do audiences go to films like this to be entertained or to learn something about history? Did you find the film entertaining or educational? Perhaps both? Explain your answer with specific scenes from the film Films like gangs of New York are definitely appealing to audiences. In today’s society‚ where digitalization prevails‚ it is much easier to capture broader audience with visual masterpiece than as it is with an educative
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were peaceful protests such as the Montgomery bus riot and nonviolent civil rights organizations‚ but in other places there were violent groups and protests. Both groups wanted civil rights‚ but there viewpoints were much different. One group wanted integration and the other wanted two completely separate areas for African Americans and caucasions. The nonviolent organizations such as the Southern Christian Leadership Conference led peaceful riots in Alabama and all over the Southeast states. Martin
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Secondly‚ Du Bois’ The Litany of Atlanta is essential with depicting the environments and setting in Atlanta on the day of the Atlanta riots. These events led to the uneasiness within the community. Du Bois‚ himself‚ also resorted to buying a gun in order to protect his family in case of another event happening like this‚ in result to witnessing the Atlanta riot. This riot ultimately led Du Bois to creating an organization that protected the African American community later named the NAACP. In The Litany
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Stanley B. Norvell wrote this letter to Victor Lawson in response to the Chicago race riots in the summer of 1919. Norvell and others were directed to assemble a biracial committee by the Governor of Illinois to discover what the causes of the riots were. His letter describes in detail that there is a new negro and that the white man does not understand nor tries to understand him. The cause of all this violence was started when a black teenager‚ Eugene Williams‚ was swimming in Lake Michigan
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soil in 1897. Of all Butler’s contributions to Trinidad and Tobago‚ his contributions and political ambitions to trade unionism during the 1930s and 1940s was the greatest and to date it is still evident. His major contributions evolved around the riots of 1937 and has affected major changes within industries‚ workers and colonial authority. By 1921 when Butler decided to migrate to Trinidad‚ he had already distinguished himself in his homeland‚ Grenada‚ with leadership positions in socio political
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true understanding of a person’s inner self. With the Los Angeles riots‚ it would truly be a mistake to attempt to interpret the actions of the participants without considering the social and cultural forces within the community. This approach is particularly useful because it looks for personal values and social conditions that develops self-limiting‚ aggressive‚ and in this case‚ destructive perspectives. Looking at the riots from a humanistic perspective‚ the issue of prejudice must be explored
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they can make people rowdy coming there. Knowing that the mayor and city officials could have made them move the protest to an area downtown where both sides could not cause any trouble. It wasn’t the Neo-Nazis that cause the riot‚ it wasn’t the neighborhood that cause the riot‚ but the mayor of Toledo that cause it. His job as mayor is to do what is best for the city and he did not do
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Do you agree with the view that the British actions at Amritsar were justified in the aftermath of world war one The British actions at Amritsar were justified in the aftermath of world war one to an extent. The war seemed to boost the self esteem on Indians and unite them‚ suggesting threat against the raj‚ however the view in source 10 shows that there was no proof of a conspiracy‚ source 11 agrees with this but also shows why dyer might have acted in this way. Source 12 agrees with the fact that
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laws‚ the British passed the Quartering Act‚ allowing British soldiers to create barracks out of their homes. Once troops arrived in the colonies‚ riots became‚ "an almost regular feature of life" (Becker‚ Wheeler 77). The Boston Massacre occurred on March 5‚ 1770‚ when hostility between the Americans and British had reached its breaking point. During a riot in the town square‚ British troops fired into a crowd of civilians‚ killing five men. The Boston Massacre was caused by tensions in the American
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