He challenges both conservative and liberal interpretations, emphasizing that these riots must be placed within historical ... historical account of the hundreds of black rebellions in the 1960s. He ...

In 1965, a race riot erupted in the Watts section ... It was this as a backdrop that the urban riots of the 1960's took place. And sadly, the riots in turn only made the situation worse.

The race riots of the mid 1960s and the Black Power salute given by two American athletes at the Mexico Olympics in 1968 demonstrated a deeply divided country. The Kerner Commission was set up in ...

In 1935, the "first modern American race riot" took place in Harlem. In 1935, the police were called on Lino Rivera, a 16-year-old Black Puerto Rican, who stole a pen knife from a dime store.

late 1960s race riots and a study of Crispus Attucks York itself. The center will profile Ray Crenshaw, George Bowles, Mildred Chapman and other Black leaders. The Crispus Attucks center will ...

City Council District 7 candidate Eddie Huff claims a term used to avoid liability for the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre is the ...

The race riots of the mid 1960s and the Black Power salute given by two American athletes at the Mexico Olympics in 1968 demonstrated a deeply divided country. The USA was a divided society ...

Solidarity spurred students and people of color to call for American divestment from apartheid South Africa in the 1980s, and has more recently brought Black activists to Standing Rock. The notion of ...

Riot police were pelted with fencing and other missiles and, at one, point an attempt was made to set light to a bin outside the hotel as some of those taking part smashed their way into the building.

Officers Danny Hodges and Aquilino Gonell spoke to a crowd after the screening of a documentary backed by UVA’s Center for ...

I've come to Strasbourg because what happened here is crucial to understanding what happened in the UK riots. Image ... indirectly trying to incite a race war on the back of the Southport murders ...

Judge Jonathan Carroll said her conduct was "part and parcel of what is generally referred to as the summer riots" which was "politically motivated violence". Disorder broke out across the country ...