During the 1960s, civil rights activists set forth an agenda to end the divide between blacks and the predominantly white society. Unequal wages, racial injustice, and violence within ghettos led to black Americans demanding legislative change from the government. Violence spread wildly due to urban areas rioting. Residents of ghettos felt the riots began in Harlem in 1964, “between angry black and the predominantly white police,” (Foner, 1000). Segregation and poverty were thought to be the cause of the violence, the unemployment rates for blacks being twice as high and the average income over half as little as that of white workers. Two years after the beginning of the ghetto uprising, Martin Luther King Jr., one of the most well-known
