Brown v.board of education May 1954 8. Freedom riders May 1961 7. Birmingham riots May 1963 6. Little rock nine September 1957 5. Rosa Parks bus incident December 1955 4.…
In April, 1992, Los Angeles was a powder keg. Four police officers stood accused of police brutality. A video surfaced showing them beating an unarmed black man named Rodney King. When a jury of 10 whites, one Hispanic, and one Asian decided the police had used justifiable force, (Evening Standard) a crowd of peaceful demonstrations turned violent and lay siege to the city. Those in the streets during the riots witnessed a multiethnic horde commit assault, theft, and arson.…
The Horrors of the Ku Klux Klan during the Reconstruction Era During the Reconstruction era, politics was a catalyst for widespread racism and hatred that former slaves experienced throughout the South. The Ku Klux Klan (KKK), founded by a Confederate general in 1866, became known as the “invisible empire of the South” in which members represented the ghosts of the Confederate dead returning to terrorize, suppress, and victimize African Americans and Radical Republicans (white reformers) (Gale Encyclopedia of American Law, 2011). From 1868 through the early 1870s the Ku Klux Klan functioned as a loosely organized group of political and social terrorists. The Klan 's goals included the political defeat of the Republican Party and the maintenance…
The LA Riots were in response to the Rodney King video that showed LA Police officers beating an unarmed African- American motorist. On March 3rd 1991 King, a paroled felon led police on a high speed chase through the LA county, he was intoxicated and uncooperative during the arrest. Unbeknownst to the 3 officers, Laurence Powell, Theodore Briseno, and Timothy Wind was involved in the beating of Rodney King while arresting King someone was filming the officers beating King long after he was able to resist. The video was released to the public and it was met with questions about police brutality. King was released without charges, and on March 15,in front of a Grand Jury, Sgt Stacey Koon and the officers were indicted on charges of Assault with a deadly weapon, and excessive force and Koon, while not taking a part in the beating he was the commanding officer during the time of the beating was charged with aiding and abetting.…
The civil right movement hoped to change the laws and the sentiments of the american people towards black americans, because it was a sensitive subject that affected America entirely, it was hard work and tears that truly made this movement continue. Two very important moving events were, Little Rock 1957 and Birmingham Alabama 1963 that truly changed various aspects of this movement, and the ways of thinking of many Americans. Although the supreme court finally started to make some changes toward the structure of education, with the over turning of Plessy v. Ferguson and Cumming v. Richmond County Board of Education, making the supreme court finally put in form that separate is not equal and schools should be integrated for the better of…
On August 28th 1963 a turning point in the Civil rights movement. This is where Martin Luther King's famous speech “ I have a dream” was read. The organizers had an essential job of keeping the March on Washington orderly due to the fact that other races joined them, chaos was expected, and MLK wanted peace. As racial tension between whites and African Americans were still high seeing other races join in on the march pulled the two races closer together, and joined together to fight for equality among race.…
1921: Tulsa Race Riot Although the 1950’s and 1960’s were known for racial riots, the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot was the worst in American history. It was one of the worst because this riot involved planes that were made for WW1, and some policeman, instead of protecting the people, joined the riot.…
People, mostly black, were tired of the segregation going on with the law, cops and court system. They started rioting and social media was going crazy. Maybe blacks are being treated different. But that is not the law's fault. It is more the peoples fault for being racist.…
After hundred year of the emancipation proclamation, the nation was still heading in reverse. The hope of freedom that was promised by the Civil War was widely vanishing, replacing by bigotry. The segregated society in contrast of race had become a reality, shining away from the Illinois congressman’s a “new nation”; it was rather a good old nation with its racist attitude. The widely practiced Jim Crow Law and dived but equal was not only threatening the south, but it was also reflecting fear and intimidation. The country fighting a war outside of home to liberate people from prejudice, was reluctantly refusing its reality.…
“This is a racial incident... it represents one simple thing: black people want control of black communities” Rev. Albert Cleage, Detroit religious leader, declared (Cleage 1). In Detroit 1967, racial riots enclosed the entire city. Mobs looted and burned hundreds of stores. The riots spread sporadically.…
On July 27, 1919, the streets of Chicago, Illinois, were filled with racially fueled violence, which resulted in numerous deaths and injuries to both sides. Once again the Nation witnessed another outbreak of violence between the African American and Caucasian populations. The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 was considered to be one of the worst of the estimated twenty-three riots that occurred during what historians have labeled, due to the large amounts of violence and deaths throughout the nation, as the Red Summer. The violence lasted from July 27th to August 3rd, spanning over a period of eight days. With the riot lasting as long as it had, the combined developments of structures being set on fire, stores being looted, and numerous deaths, made…
If it weren't for the Civil Rights Movement of 1946-68 then life in America would be completely different. Schools down South would be segregated still, White supremacy would more than likely spread all over America, and black would still be paid minimum wage. Now thanks to The Civil Rights Movement black people are treated more like a human but still are being harassed because of the color of their skin. People of color are now becoming more close to their white friends and making children of both ethnic groups and spreading their love all over America.…
During the 1960’s, the cause of urban unrest was due to tensions resulting from riots and racial discrimination. In response to these radical gatherings, President Lyndon B. Johnson established the Kernel Commission to investigate the roots of this civil disorder. After a thorough investigation, the Kernel Commission came to the conclusion that America “was moving toward two societies, one black, one white—separate and unequal.” African Americans were suffering from poverty, unemployment, lack of education, and poor housing that the federal legislation has not answered. Despite the establishment of the SNCC that followed King’s civil disobedience and nonviolent principles, other factions have formed that decided to take action on the environment they’re forced to live on.…
Discrimination, joblessness, poverty, segregation, and housing problems prompted many urban riots in the 1960s. While some riots happened due to specific events, all of these incidents of civil unrest took place in areas with a large population of African Americans. According to Thomson Gale of Encyclopedia.com, if there was a sufficient African American population and something set them off, in those days it was enough to start a riot. History.com asserts that the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. sparked many riots in the days following his death on April 4, 1968.…
From 1954 to 1968 the Civil Rights Movement took place in the United States. During this time, strategies and social movements occurred with the goal of eliminating racial segregation and discrimination laws. The movement consisted of many civil resistance campaigns. These operations were led by civil rights activists who wanted to help secure rights and equal opportunities for African Americans. One of the most visible and well known of such activists was Martin Luther King Jr.…