This paper will cover the readings of James DeFronzo’s Revolutions and Revolutionary Movements , as well as, Joshua Bloom and Waldo Martin’s Black Against Empire . This paper will discuss the two revolutionary movements that took place in the United States revolving around the blacks here and also the Arab Spring movements in the middle east. This paper will focus on how the governments and states response to revolutionary movements, their tactics to oppress the population and resolve situations diminishing the movements. In Chapter 11 of James DeFronzo’s book, he discusses the Arab Spring and all the revolutions that took place at that time. The other shows us how this revolution included the five main factors of a revolution; the permissive
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In both situations, these people wanted better conditions for their lives. But the Blacks and other minorities in the United States wanted better cooperation from the government and equal rights and treatment, just the same as whites in America. At the beginning of the movement with the Black Panther Party, they faced a lot a backlash from the police and politicians. But the backlash they faced wasn’t as extreme as the Middle East experienced. Over in the Middle East, large crowds would sometimes be gunned down in cold blood by national guards or other military personnel. The blacks and other minors still had bad and hard struggles in the revolutionary efforts but it wasn’t as bad as the Arabs. The Black Panther Party movement faced heavy resistance from police and politicians, they were fighting the blacks on the demands they were asking for. It took years for the government to see the seriousness and severity of the protest to finally begin working with the black movement leaders to find a compromise. Before this point the United States governing agencies did an astonishingly well job at containing the black movement, not allowing it to be extremely radicalized or become too large for them to handle. When the government began working with the Black Panthers there were concessions offered in different states to appease the people. These concessions worked gloriously, people within the revolution movement receive what they were asking for and therefore stopped supporting or being a part of the movement. The movement dwindled down from the large support it had and lost its footing. With the governments working with the movement, giving them some concessions of things they were asking for the Black movement died out and was as popular anymore. The Black Panthers were losing funding and number support and their cause was becoming very ineffective
In both situations, these people wanted better conditions for their lives. But the Blacks and other minorities in the United States wanted better cooperation from the government and equal rights and treatment, just the same as whites in America. At the beginning of the movement with the Black Panther Party, they faced a lot a backlash from the police and politicians. But the backlash they faced wasn’t as extreme as the Middle East experienced. Over in the Middle East, large crowds would sometimes be gunned down in cold blood by national guards or other military personnel. The blacks and other minors still had bad and hard struggles in the revolutionary efforts but it wasn’t as bad as the Arabs. The Black Panther Party movement faced heavy resistance from police and politicians, they were fighting the blacks on the demands they were asking for. It took years for the government to see the seriousness and severity of the protest to finally begin working with the black movement leaders to find a compromise. Before this point the United States governing agencies did an astonishingly well job at containing the black movement, not allowing it to be extremely radicalized or become too large for them to handle. When the government began working with the Black Panthers there were concessions offered in different states to appease the people. These concessions worked gloriously, people within the revolution movement receive what they were asking for and therefore stopped supporting or being a part of the movement. The movement dwindled down from the large support it had and lost its footing. With the governments working with the movement, giving them some concessions of things they were asking for the Black movement died out and was as popular anymore. The Black Panthers were losing funding and number support and their cause was becoming very ineffective