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    The focus here will be the 1992 Los Angeles riot that occurred shortly after the verdict of innocent was announced for the killing of Rodney King. This allowed four police officers who were involved to walk free in Los Angeles of 1992 causing an uproar in communities and neighborhoods across the city. I will analyze the 77th division police officers who responded in large numbers to a call in South Central neighborhood where they heard that another officer got shot. This was one hour after the King

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    The Warren Court The 1960’s was an evolution of change in American history. When Earl Warren became Chief Justice of Supreme Court in 1953 it made the most dramatic changes and held a far more liberal view than any other Supreme Court before. Some of its most important rulings were on African-American civil liberties. The Supreme Court changed American law on segregation in schools‚ criminal procedure‚ and privacy rights. Before the Warren Court the American law treated blacks as second class citizens

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    Post-apartheid presents a uniquely powerful and important lens for examining the vigorous relationship between inequality and space. On the one hand‚ apartheid city’s produced a compartmentalized‚ highly legible‚ and stark spatial hierarchy of class‚ access and race. On the other hand‚ the termination of the apartheid regime has created and unleashed powerful transformative forces‚ especially market forces that were no longer fettered by racial barriers

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    like to focus on is the London Riots. There are several different theories as to the causes of the London Riots. There is no evidence to define the reasons for the London Riots in 2011 taking place. However‚ The main cause is thought to be Social and economic inequality. According to Mary Riddell‚ “Britain is less equal‚ in wages‚ wealth‚ and life chances‚ that at any time since the last major financial upheaval‚ the great crash of 1929.” (Riddel‚ 2011). The riots were thought to be a protest to

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    segregation was unconstitutional‚ blacks still faced many discriminatory laws and attitudes‚ especially in the South. At the beginning of the 1960s‚ the goal of the Civil Rights Movement‚ led by Martin Luther King‚ Jr.‚ was to end legal segregation and to integrate society. His strategy to achieve these goals was non-violent protest. By the end of the 1960s‚ the Civil Rights Movement moved from integration to black separatism‚ and the strategy of the movement changed from non-violent methods to a

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    Homophile Activism in the United States in the 1960’s & 70’s: A Tenuous Time Kari Twogood EDAD 577: Managing Diversity Spring 2014 Central Washington University There is evidence of same sex relationships all the way back to earliest recorded history. Gay history‚ the history of same sex relationships‚ both male and female‚ can’t be taken out of context with the broader spectrum of history. The homophile movement didn’t happen in a vacuum. It is only one aspect of history

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    race crime

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    Abstract This study explores the effect of various factors on the crime rate in the US. The model is estimated using the OLS procedure and a cross-sectional data set across the fifty states in 2000. The four variables that are found to have significant coefficients are police expenditures per crime in 1999‚ unemployment rate‚ per capita income‚ and the percentage of people living in poverty. Specifically‚ for every dollar increase per crime in 1999‚ the crime rate is found to decline by 260 crimes

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    The 2011 riots took place between 6th-10th of August‚ several cities and towns across England suffered riots and looting as thousands took the street. The violence from this was seen to be after the shooting of Mark Duggan. However‚ the thousands that took to the streets had their other reasons to be rioting‚ making people wonder what were the problems with the society we live in. The people involved in the riots were between the ages of 11- 70. It shows how the amount of people getting involved

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    their power i.e. Systemic issues of oppression of a group‚ race‚ or organization‚ but mainly towards African-Americans. Certain acts of oppression towards the African-Americans have brought about riots and a strong progressive movement such as‚ The Brixton Riot(1981)‚ and The Detroit Race Riot(1967)‚ and The Black Lives Matter Movement(2013)‚ a lot of people were affected by the oppression towards black people which brought about these riots and movements‚ but the few people who were directly affected

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    Race to Space

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    In 1957 the Soviet Union launched “Sputnik” an artificial satellite into orbit; this sparked a very sudden desire of competition‚ between the United States and The Soviet union‚ to be more technologically advanced than one another. The priority of getting a man into space became first on the list. Where this man could be found? Where to start looking? Test Pilots!‚ At the time were the best of the best‚ there was no “Top Gun” these were the men that could get the job done‚ the only problem is getting

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