"The riots over five days in the spring of 1992 left more than 50 people dead‚ and more than 2‚000 injured."( Los Angeles Riots Fast Facts) After the riots‚ Los Angles became a different place‚ with LAPD being less aggressive to citizens and minimal gang related violence happening the crime rate plummeted‚ due to the truces between the Crips and Bloods. "There is a newer generation of gang member who decide they do not want to be a part of the truce."Forget the LA Riots - historic 1992 Watts gang
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of the free. Great political gains for African-Americans were made in the 1960’s such as the right to vote without paying. Still‚ many African Americans were dissatisfied with their economic situation‚ so they reacted with violence in the form of riots. Other African-Americans became frustrated with the system of "white" America; hence they turned to militant organizations that stressed black power. Many people believe that violence or militant actions solve their problems‚ but in reality the results
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Asia Hill-Matthews 5/13/2013 African American Experience Dr. Muhammad The African Amercian Experience Many African Amerciancs have gone to major extremes to secure‚ there rights in our society. They have tried to make many things better for themselves. In southern states‚ economic sanctions were appealed against African Amercians who were active in civil rights. Many were laid off from their jobs‚ loans were being denied and foreclosures of mortgages were some of the tactics used to “decimate the
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Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis‚ Tennessee‚ on April 4th‚ 1968. King’s assassination affected the black community in many ways. This assassination created uproars from protesters throughout the nation‚ it caused president Lyndon B. Johnson to take civil action. Many people acted out in violence with dangerous weapons of destruction‚ and the main target was the white community. Many people had gotten arrested in this depressing time of history. Protesters were taking violent paths
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During 1965‚ this was still a time of great turmoil. US was still recovering from the war‚ there was the Watts Riots‚ the North East blackout and before just the year before that‚ on July 2nd the civil right act of 1964 was signed which put into law that segregation as illegal but ironically the Jim crow laws remained in effect. However‚ the major event that year was the racial violence between blacks and white that erupted in Selma Alabama. The voter’s rights movement‚ to sum up was when blacks
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Simi Valley‚ which is a predominantly white suburb of Los Angeles. All officers were subsequently acquitted by a jury comprised of 10 whites‚ one Hispanic and one Asian‚ and the African American community responded in a manner far worse than the Watts Riots of 1965. "While the King beating was tragic‚ it was just the trigger that released the rage of a community in economic strife and a police department in serious decline. If it hadn ’t been Rodney King‚ it might well have been something else that
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domestic and international crisis‚ 1968 America was divided. The Tet Offensive ended the country’s feint hope that the war could be over soon‚ and racial tensions left many Americans either feeling ignored or fearful for their lives. Constant protest and riots concerning race and the Vietnam War brewed a feeling of insecurity in the country. The feelings of intense nationalism and American pride seemed to have dissolved in the wake racial conflict and Vietnam. The American virtues of freedom and equality
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The sixties were a time of revolution for the rights of individuals in America. There were many historical events that took place that made this country what it is now. From the marches‚ sit-ins‚ bus boycotts‚ the African Americans saw the opportunity to fight for equal rights at a time when the country was looking to change. Poverty was high‚ especially with African Americans‚ and all the tension from the Cold War and Vietnam building started movements of people. The public opinion was different
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effects of past discrimination by favoring the groups who were previously disadvantaged. 2. July 1964: In New York city‚ an encounter between white police and African-American teenagers ended in the death of a 15-year-old student. This sparked a race riot in central Harlem. February 1965: Malcolm X was shot and killed while
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jobs and were poor. They had protested peacefully for ten years and nothing had changed. John F Kennedy had been killed. The blacks figured they had nothing to lose so they just started protesting in the country’s major cities. At the time of the riots the Black Civil Rights movement was breaking into two groups‚ Martin Luther King and followers that wanted to have a good place in American society and to do this needed the co – operation of whites. The other side began black power and felt they couldn’t
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