father. His father was a priest fighting for the right to vote in Mississippi and concluded peaceful protest. Emmet saw his father be hit over the head with a club and still held strong. His family later moved to Watts‚ California to proceed with their civil rights protests. In 1965 the Watts Riot sent the world into chaos. Emmet got involved in the looting and someone handed him a gun. While he was stealing a TV. from a store his father found him and talked sense into him. His father then took his gun
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failures of the movement‚ and before his assassination in 1968 grew much more critical of the government of its failures in easing racial tensions. After King’sKings assassination on April 4th 1968‚ riots bursted across 110 of America’s largest cities. These riots furthered the sentiment of the Watts riots in LA in 1965‚ and Detroit in 1967 that racial discrimination‚ in housing‚ education‚ and job opportunities had come to a paramount and that something had to be done about it. The Black Power movement
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8. 9. Why did black clubs originate in Los Angeles? Why did people join the clubs? How was segregation maintained in Los Angeles in the 1950s and 1960s. Was this legal? Explain. What were the causes of the Watts Riot in 1965? Who labeled it a riot? How did the black community view this conflict? A result of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement was the Black Pride movement. What was black pride and what was done throughout the black community to instill pride?
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was very successful in the south‚ it did not have the same effect in the North. When‚ Dr. King went north‚ supporters noticed that the nonviolent protests did not have an affect in stopping the violent. Riots of Watts as stated in Document 1 showed that this was not the way to fix the issue. The riots in the movement paved a way for a new movement known as the Black Power movement. This movement stressed the importance of African American sticking together and protecting each other against the violence
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Within Los Angeles‚ the area of Watts experienced many issues‚ including overcrowded schools and a police force with a record of racism and brutality. An arrest would eventually lead to the emergence of a large-scale riot‚ and for many African-Americans‚ “Watts demonstrated a rejection of hopeful nonviolence and a demand for concrete changes” (Berkin‚ 761). People were disillusioned with simply
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African-Americans were fed up with the inequality they faced throughout the state. In the 1960s‚ the Watts Riots broke out sparking violence throughout the city of Los Angeles and Watts neighborhood. African Americans we fed up with the housing discrimination‚ deteriorating and crowded neighborhoods‚ serious unemployment‚ police harassment‚ limited opportunities made worse by an insufficient education system‚ and increased poverty (Textbook‚ 525). As California entered the 1960s‚ the Civil Rights
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Los Angeles in the 1900s was changing at a very rapid pace. African Americans from the South were migrating to the major cities of the North in search of opportunity. In the 1920s‚ the first wave of migration largely bypassed the city of Los Angeles. But starting in the 1940s‚ the second wave of migration caused Los Angeles’s population to skyrocket from 63‚700 to 350‚000 by the year 1960. This mass-migration caused many demographic problems in the new racially diverse city. The first sign of lingering
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215(2880)‚ 26. Vann‚ A. (2006‚ June 29). Sometimes the allegation of "reverse racism" is camouflage for maintaining the "status quo". New York Amsterdam News. p. 13. Wamsted‚ D. J. (2012). Opening Doors for Diversity. Electric Perspectives‚ 37(3)‚ 26. Watts. (2011). Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia‚ 6th Edition‚ 1. West‚ E. (2004). Expanding the Racial Frontier. Historian‚ 66(3)‚ 552. doi:10.1111/j.1540-6563.2004.00088.x Yosso‚ T. J. (2002). Critical Race Media Literacy: Challenging Deficit Discourse
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were reluctantly accepted‚ such that the side forced to accept the changes did so with feelings of resentment always escalating racial tensions. Further‚ LBJ’s National advisory Commission on Civil Disorders‚ in an attempt to find causes of the riots‚ had
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"A crooked childhood it’s what the way I am‚ It’s got me in the state where I don’t give a damn‚ Somebody helped me but now they don’t hear me‚ I guess I be another victim of the ghetto So I guess I gotta do what so I ain’t finished I grew up to be a streiht up menace‚ geah." -"Streiht Up Menace" by MC Eiht The song lyrics above are from the soundtrack of the film Menace II Society and correspond directly to the hardships that people are given when growing up in the ghetto and when surrounded
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