...were multiple riots in the predominantly black Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles. These were the most fatal riots in the LA history (before the Rodney...
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...invites defeat.”-Martin Luther King Jr. The Watts Riots began on the night of August 11, 1965, and lasted until August 16. During this time, 34 people were killed, another 1,032 were injured, and almost 4,000 people were arrested.(Nichols, Casey) The riots were caused by the failed arrest of three members of the Frye family, and a rumor that circulated after their arrests that the police had beat an unarmed pregnant African American woman. While the Fryes were being detained, a large crowd had gathered to watch and police officers that were called in to quell the riots beat, killed, and helped fan the flames of the movement even further into chaos. Almost 14,000 National Guard troops...
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...movement however in some ways it did hinder the civil rights and cause some problems for the other civil rights campaigners. Black Power groups were militant type groups who did not agree with Martin Luther King’s non-violence beliefs. MLK said that if they did use violence it would give the white racist an excuse of attacking law abiding blacks. However Black Power groups believed they could use violence in self-defence but MLK said you should never use violence. Black Power groups where often associated with black Muslims, but by the mid-1960s many of the activist in the SNCC and CORE had both moved away from their traditional views of non-violence, and joined the views of Black Power groups such as the Black Panthers. Black Power groups did help the civil rights movement because it forced the civil rights movement up the agenda, so it made the president make take faster action to try and get the civil rights bills passed through congress quicker so that the violence between the Blacks and the whites would stop. Another reason why the president wanted the laws to be passed was because of all the bad press America was receiving, mainly the communist USSR, who were saying things like how you can fight for freedom when you don’t even have freedom in your own country. This was a problem for America as they did not want people to stop believing in the capital system and join a communist system. Black power groups did cause the government some troubles. The Black Power groups walked...
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...ride interstate buses through the south to test federal law. Buses were burned and flipped by resisting whites. A group called the Albany Movement, staged sit-ins and boycotts in Albany, Georgia. Martin led these marches all over Albany (“Martin Luther King Jr.”: Bader 48-52). Martin used these non-violent throughout the civil rights movement. Martin Luther King Jr. had a significant role in the civil rights movement. The “I have a dream speech” rocketed Martin Luther King into being the sole leader of the African American community. He used the phrase “I have a dream” in his speech to describe his vision of the United States without racial prejudice or injustice (Martin Luther King Jr. Delivers). The speech led to nationwide rallies as a cause of white outrage. The rallies were based out of Selma, Alabama, as part of a voter registration campaign (Martin Luther King Jr. Delivers). The speech on the stairs of the Lincoln Memorial had 250,000 people in Attendance. King’s speech was nationally televised and praised by the press. The speech led him to become the youngest person to ever receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 (Martin Luther King Jr. Delivers). Martin Luther King’s letter while in jail responding to criticism by white clergymen on their views of segregation further helped Martin Luther King in his role as the leader of the civil rights movement. The clergymen’s focal message is that arguments against racial segregation should not be handled on the streets but in court...
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...several eyewitnesses have claimed seeing the 18-year-old girl at the crime scene, and she is therefore our prime suspect.” The London police department have apologized to the deceased mans family for taking so long to start the investigation, even though he already was reported missing Saturday evening. However, because of the riot that broke out on Oxford Street the London police said it would have been an impossible task to find Jeff Lee’s corpse, before Tuesday morning. Initially it was suspected that the man had been killed during the riot, but Springfield University Hospital could after their post-mortem examination announce that he died just few hours before the riot. They also announced that the cause of death was a stab wound to his throat. “This was a very violent and cold blooded killing, the perpetrator must have been in a very angered state to deliver such a wound “ - said Dr Martin to The Local. The London police are investigating on a theory that there are more suspects who are involved in the killing as recently found evidence points towards more than one person. A female eyewitness has also informed the police that just before the riot she saw two or...
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...The civil rights movement changed during the mid-1960's.The civil rights movement became a crisis when it went from demanding access to schools, voting booths and public facilities to economic disparities between whites and blacks. During the mid-1960's, economic problems became a priority of the civil rights movement. In northern ghettos, violence was focused on racial injustice and inequalities in jobs, housing and education. The end of legal segregation never solved this growing problem. The hostility of later race relations surfaced from many whites’ belief that blacks had gotten enough equality in civil and voting rights laws and didn't need anything else. On the other hand, while blacks were demanding for more government action because...
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...Kennedy supported the civil rights movement by wanting equality for all African American. He states that an African American have the ability to have the same education as whites do. (Doc C) Just because they look different does not mean they are not capable of being equal as the whites. Every man kind was born to be equal as each other and be capable in doing what they desire. Martin Luther wants to transform this place into a better one for African American.He wants to do many things for them to have equality and supports them to go higher and reach it.(Doc K) He is getting frustrated since he is no longer seeing any kind of improvement for his cause of fighting. Martin and SCIC wanted to apply action so he can be heard by making everything...
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...Title Author Author Affiliation Abstract During the 1960’s, police officers executed arrests and dealt with problems in a way that greatly differ from law enforcement of today. This time frame involved racial riots, women rights, civil rights and important court cases. Mapp v. Ohio was concluded in 1961, and concluded that the fourth amendment applied to state courts and not just federal. Women achieved major milestones in the 1960’s, and Civil Rights were one of the biggest topics of the times. In the criminal justice field, a law enforcement official is expected to conduct themselves in a professional manner on and off duty. Part I – Policing Research Police Trends and Issues during the 1960’s During the 1960’s, law enforcement was completely different from what it is today. Officers were taught to handle situations in a way that would be illegal and in some opinions, morally wrong. When there was a riot, regardless of what is motivating the crowd, law enforcement officials would use excessive force and various, unnecessary tactics. People today probably wonder what made police officials believe that this type of crowd control was an acceptable response to any type of situation. Unfortunately, police officers were taught this in the academies and honestly believed that what they were doing was right. Also during this era, the first female officers came into play for law enforcement. In conjunction to females being allowed to be become officers, the first black police...
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...with some sort of unfair opinions and treatment forever, but hopefully not to the caliber as they were in the past. For decades, African Americans faced racism, unfair treatment and opinions, and everything that goes along with it. The Civil Rights movement was a movement that started in 1954 , and was made up of protests and other actions that were focused on obtaining one goal, equality for African Americans. Even today, African Americans face unfair treatment, and harsh judgement that still motivate them to strive for complete equality, and to be treated as so. The Civil Rights Movement officially started in the 50’s, but the oppression and unfair actions towards Africans that were the cause of this movement began far before. For many decades, even centuries, African Americans were forced to be slaves, and did not have any rights, let alone the rights to be free and act freely. Slaves were forced to do very exhausting and extremely labor intensive jobs that their masters had instructed them to do. Not only this, but they were bought, sold, and traded as though they were a mere object to be obtained, or some sort investment. They were seen as inferior, and treated as so. It was not until 1865 that slavery had officially ended, and African Americans had finally somewhat earned their freedom. After this racism and discrimination continued, but the fight for freedom and equality did also. ...
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...Coordinating Committee • Freedom Riders- rode buses in the south to protest-were beaten by Whites and KKK • Kennedy used civil rights to win election-promised support • James Meredith-applied to college, but was denied even with a court order • Kennedy assassinated, but Lyndon Johnson carries on his support of African Americans • Civil Rights Act of 1964- Gave power to made segregation illegal, gave power to federal gov. to prevent discrimination • Selma March-many were beaten in front of cameras-shocked nation • Voting Rights Act of 1965-allowed for many African Americans to vote-no more literacy tests • Even though discrimination was ending, it didn’t change people’s attitudes • Watts riot- African American neighborhood-had to send in National Guard • Kerner Commission- studied why the riots were happening • Chicago movement- march through white neighborhoods to show poverty of African Americans • Richard J. Daley- ordered police to protect Chicago movement • Black power- meant that blacks should control the social, political, and economic direction of their struggle • Malcolm X-joined Black Muslims-believed that blacks should separate themselves-advocated self defense • Black Panthers-...
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...on Tottenham Police station to protest the death of the man, the demonstration turned into a series of violent acts in the streets that quickly developed and spread across London and other cities all over England. A major debate arose about the inner causes of the insurrections and the media and politicians promptly pointed out several hypothesis. The August 2011 events have been primarily interpreted, especially amongst the political class, through a lens that emphasises criminality. ,one prominent argument advocates that the cause of the unrest was the moral decay of ‘a feral underclass’ (Scrambler; Grover 2011) However, many of such explanations tend to be mostly speculative and they often fail to provide a consistent account of the causes of the riots based on solid evidence (the LSE/theguardian, 2011, Solomos, 2011). Against this background this essay attempts to disentangle the motives of the London 2011 riots, by focusing on the relations of causality between factors and events that led to the burst of the unrest. It argues that urban social inequalities as well as uneven processes of exclusion and inclusion of a marginalised class are the main factor underlying the disturbances. Yet this essay claims that these riots need also to be analysed in the very specific context in which they have arisen: the financial crisis, a society which is becoming increasingly consumerist in its orientation, the disputable role of the police, loss of faith in the political class and...
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...knew of was carriages with horses, or trains. Before the industrial revolution 2 types of mining excised drift mines and bell mines both were small scale coal mines. Technology was not advanced before the rise of the industrial revolution but all that was about to change During the industrial revolution, industrlazation took a big turn and improved a lot when Samuel arrived with the plans of the mills many factories were built on water power many soon people started moving from their farms to the cities to work in the textile, furniture, ETC.factories factories meant pollution and pollution meant deaths so for the cause of the pollution many people died intoxicated in or outside the factories. The working conditions in the factories were not very good so many people started to go on strike for the working conditions also because child labor and it lead to riots. New transportation was invented the dynamic duo the wright brothers invented the air plane which was very...
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...Critical issues Mary E Rios CJS210 July 1, 2012 Amanda Dean Critical issues Criminals today are using technology to their advantage when committing crimes; therefore law enforcement must also use technology when taking down the criminal. Technology can be used to prevent crimes as well as to solve crimes after they have happened. Law enforcement today is focusing more on the less then lethal weapons whenever possible. Police officers are faced with many dangers in their daily jobs. Police officers are constantly faced with the unknown and the unpredictable. A routine call could turn out to be deadly or contamination of infectious disease. The Internet has changed how police officers can complete their daily jobs; the Internet has opened doors to so many technological advancements and if all departments are updating their processes and up with technology their jobs could be much more adequate and less room for error or delays. Major technological advancements include database technology, computer aid dispatch, record keeping, and mobile computing. What was once known as the card file index is now known as databases or COMPSTAT, these databases hold criminal information, management information, reports that can be used for statistics or analytical information, trends in crimes, and also can be used for staffing based on geographic crime history. All of this information is at the fingertips of an officers or management personnel to quickly make a decision when...
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...hate groups of African Americans. Groups like the Black Panther Party and Black Nationalists opposed the oppression they faced and fought it violently. Today, there is a modern civil rights movement happening and there has been a recent rise in hate group activity. Movements such as anti-racism and gay-rights have raised attention and faced opposition. In modern times, hate groups are less tangible. While there may not be groups with national committees holding meetings to oppose these civil rights, there are groups that have these common hatreds: religious groups, political parties, and certain demographic areas are just a few. Hate groups have left huge impacts on society during periods of social liberation, whether for or against the cause. During the reconstruction period in the United States of America, former slaves were granted citizenship and encouraged by Northerners to participate in the government. The army and carpetbaggers flooded the South during reconstruction to assure the plan was being followed. When reconstruction ended and the Northerners left, the South returned to their racist views...
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...Floyd Ogle Instructor: English 1A 11 September 2008 To Catch a Dream On August 28, 1963 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., possibly one of the most eloquent, and certainly one of the most passionate men to ever share his heart, delivered a stunning and earth shaping speech. He delivered this speech not only to over 200,000 people in attendance at the Lincoln Memorial, and not even to a nation struggling with the perils of racism and equality, but to generations of people who share in a dream and strive for freedom; a dream that many still dream today. Even though we are closer now than at any point in history, we have yet to experience the freedom of which Dr. King dreamed. Racism is not a problem only in America, most every nation deals with racial issues on some level. Though none of us could ever forget the tragedy of the Holocaust, we tend to forget that it was racially motivated. Hitler’s goal was to exterminate the Jewish people. “Anne Frank was murdered by the Nazis in Bergen-Belsen [concentration camp] for being a Jew, just one of over one million Jewish children to be killed in the Holocaust” (Melchior). The Holocaust, while the most prominent, is not the only example of ethnic cleansing that the world offers. Darfur, the Sudan, Croatia, and Kosovo, just to name a few, have all dealt with this racial horror. South Africa, as well, deals with racism. As the political power shifts toward black South Africans, white South Africans face continual racial violence...
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