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    1960s Dbq

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    When someone mentions the 1960’s‚ what do you think about? Do you think about the war in Vietnam‚ the Apollo 11 mission‚ or the Civil Rights movement? If you’ve ever thought about the Civil Right’s Movement; have you thought about whose philosophy was better for the 1960’s‚ was it Martin Luther King Jr. or Malcolm X. During the 1960’s‚ King wanted black’s and white’s to getting along; while Malcolm X wanted black’s and white’s to work separately. I think that Martin Luther King Jr.’s philosophy was

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    London Riots 2011

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    Kerrie Neal James Grubb History 111 May 3rd 2013 The BlackBerry Riots In the summer of 2011‚ the city of London‚ England was disheveled. With what started as a simple police brutality protest soon turned the city upside down with riots clustering in almost every borough. Parliament abruptly returned from their summer holidays to quickly address the chaos dismantling their city’s wellbeing. Just under 2‚000 riot related arrests were made by the Metropolitan police and just under 4‚000 throughout

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    Atlanta Riots of 1906

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    Hallman History After 1877 “Atlanta Riots of 1906” Atlanta Georgia was thought to be a prime example of how blacks and whites could live together in harmony: however the 1906 race riot was a mass civil disturbance. By the 1900’s Atlanta was the place of regional economy. The population increased from 89‚000 in 1900 to 150‚000 by 1910‚ the black population went from 9‚000 in 1880 to 35‚000 by 1900. Such added rising tension between white and blacks. This riot was feasible because it increase

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    Education in the 1960s

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    employment has caused a major setback on the life of minorities. There are two major dilemmas that appear throughout the 1960s and our current time. The first major problem is that education system is always rapidly growing in all its levels‚ which leads to increasingly crowded classes that can’t uphold the required material and faculty to that huge number of students‚ “in the 1960s public school enrollment was 1.9 million students in excess of classroom capacity‚ a situation that persisted throughout

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    Ole Miss Riot

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    attempt to calm the angry crowd. On October 1‚ 1962 James Meredith became the first black man to go to college at the University of Mississippi (Ole’ Miss). His enrollment publicly opposed by segregationist Governor Ross Barnett‚ sparkes tons of riot on the Oxford campus. The fight raged through the night. “This is the worst thing I’ve seen in forty-five years‚” said President Kennedy with great sadness. How had this come to pass? Why did America‚ “Home of the free‚” need to call in troops to

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    Attica Prison Riots

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    ATTICA PRISON RIOT MARY AMON CJS/221 CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX INTRODUCTION OF THE ATTICA PRISON RIOT • In the later part of 1971‚ a riot was caused at the Attica Correctional facility in Attica‚ New York. This riot occurred at the very time that the Prisoners’ Right Movement was passed. This riot was to demand the right of prisoners on political issues and also a good living conditions. It was also deemed as one of the most famous and significant riots that ever

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    the London riots were caused by government cuts or other factors. The London riots started in August 2011 in Tottenham‚ after the shooting of a black man called Mark Duggan. What was meant to be a peaceful protest outside the police station for justice has since evolved into disorder and riotous violence‚ caused mostly by foolish teenagers and young adults. The riots spread rapidly from London to Leeds‚ Bristol‚ Liverpool and Birmingham. There are many different reasons why the riots were started

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    92' L.A. Riots

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    settle themselves in LA: storeowners‚ office workers‚ construction workers‚ gang members‚ people who were on welfare‚ and even middle class whites were involved in the Siege of LA. It affected everyone‚ it didn ’t discriminate‚ and it didn ’t care what race you were or what your financial status was. All of that was a moot point. LA has always been a diverse and distinct city: sun‚ fun‚ entertainment‚ glitz‚ glamour‚ celebrities but also one of smog‚ gloom‚ poverty‚ ghettos‚ gangs‚ and violence

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    London Riots Analysis

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    In 2011‚ London faced four days of rioting and looting involving the community and police force. For many‚ the riots started because of the shooting of Mark Duggan in Tottenham on the 4th of August 2011 but escalated to surrounding boroughs and major cities in the UK. The media reported false accounting from the police‚ fuelling more anger into the riots. This essay critically assesses the disturbances in media and political discourse from the interpretations that reveals the new cultural deficit

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    Little Scarlet Riots

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    Apreala Tari The novel "Little Scarlet" written by Walter Mosley. According to P16‚ riots is one symptom of disease that infected the city‚ a virus that made people unafraid of consequences of standing up for themselves ‚ a week of fight with bottles and rocks. Riot was one way that change the city and made the people temerity. The theme of my essay is how riot brought courage to the black people and vicissitude the society . Firstly‚ a police traffic stop in the watts area

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