Crown Height Riots

The Peasants Revolt was not just confined to London, it spread to many other places in England. Each town had their own reasons for the starting of the Revolt.

Through the past centuries many acts of rebellion have occurred. However not many have had such an impact compared to the L.A. riots of May of 1992. After the events that occurred on May of 1992 in Los Angeles, many things changed. The L.A. riots changed race relations between police and the people of Los Angeles for the coming years.

The culmination of the riot originated from a car crash that caused African-Americans to start pointing fingers at the Jews and vice versa. After leaving a cemetery to visit the grave of a leader of the Jewish community, Yosef Lifsh started to drive east on President Street when he either ran

Urban Blacks were also encounter with extreme racial violence in neighborhoods and at work. Different ethnic groups of new immigrants obtained power and used conflict as a strategy of diminishing urban Blacks power level. They began blocking Urban Black workers going to work throughout new immigrant’s neighborhoods. Race riots have played a crucial role in the social establishment of race, prejudice, and discrimination across the United States. Race riots uncovered fundamental tensions in societies experiencing swift technological and economic changes. In 1920, there were many race riots and other violence in many places, such as Red Summer Race Riots of 1919 and the St. Louis Riot of 1917 that took place during the segregation in the South and the Black urban migration to the North. These race riots were response to the reality that Urban Blacks were carrying on a powerful struggle against White supremacy. During race riots, Urban Blacks lived through a renewed flow of riots, massacres, and racial terrorism.

The Watts riots began in the summer of 1965, in a city in Los Angeles called Watts. It all began with the arrest of a young African American by a white California Highway Patrol officer. Now, it was not because he was arrested for already doing something illegal, it was for the way the police officer treated the individual. According to Lacine Holland, an eyewitness to the arrest, the officer “took him and threw him in the car like a bag of laundry and kicked his feet in and slammed the door.” (Flournoy) This caused lots of unrest among the fellow residents of Watts. This was just the beginning of years of pent up oppression for the minorities, which participated in the event. Similarly, in 1992, the Rodney King riots also arose due to the acquittal of four Los Angeles Police Department officers for their brutal beating

We have always had racial riots since the beginning of American history, from the Stono Rebellion to Charlottesville. Each riot has a reason behind it, for Stono, it was a tribute to the resist of African Americans to the oppressive system of slavery. During the lynching

Many different researchers have tried to investigate why the riot happened, but none of their reasons are convincing enough. However one thing that is known is that the underlying causes of the riot, were not because of the Gavin Cato and Yankel Rosebaum incidents. It was much more complicated than that. Some researchers say the reason the riot happened was because of the tension between the Blacks and Jews. For the most part, they had tension because of the differences between them in regards to race, religion, socioeconomic class, cultures, and lifestyles. However, this reason isn’t convincing enough because even before the 1991 riot, there had been years of uneasy coexistence and violent attacks between them. The question then to ask those researchers is “If they always had tension, then why did it specifically happen in August 1991?” That question cannot be answered mainly because the riot itself was unpredictable. Therefore the statement that the riot was mainly caused because of tension, cannot be the sole reason for the violence because they already had tension years before, yet no riot occurred then. Other researchers think the riot might have been caused due to Black anti-Semitism. Jews are not new to anti-Semitism since they have been dealing with it for decades before. However, the 1991 riot was so bad that it had been compared to the Holocaust. The Blacks would shout anti-Semitic remarks at the Jews and hold up pro-Hitler signs. Before the riot had started, several black activists had made anti-Semitic remarks in public. On July 20, 1991, Leonard Jeffries, a black anti-Semite, gave a two hour speech, on why he didn’t like the Jews. While lots of people gave him negative feedback, black activists, such as Al Sharpton, rushed to his defense and agreed with all that he had said. This speech heightened the Black anti-Semitism that had already been present in Crown Heights leading to

In 1965 riots in L.A. occurred after a routine stop by the police involving drunk driving. This stop occurred very close the driver’s residence where massive crowd began to build. When it was all said and done

The Detroit riots were very destructive and had a lot of blood. First, they were known as the twelfth street riot until about the beginning of the 1980’s.Then, it evolved into a very destructive event that happened in Detroit. Finally, a police group raided a bar at about midnight(The Detroit riots of 1967).

On September 20th, 2016 Kenneth Lamont Scott, a Charlotte, North Carolina resident was shot and killed by members of the Charlotte Police Department. According to the Charlotte Police Department, officers were at Scott’s apartment complex searching for someone unrelated to Scott on an outstanding arrest warrant. Officers observed Scott exit a vehicle in the parking lot carrying a handgun. According to police reports, Scott failed to comply with orders to drop the weapon and was shot and killed by police. During the confrontation, Scott’s wife was present and recorded the encounter on her cell phone. Scott’s wife claimed that he was sitting in his car reading a book and that he

On July 23, 1967, a massive riot began in Detroit because a rumor was spread that police used excessive force during a street bar raid on an unlicensed bar. During the riot many buildings were destroyed and a lot of people were killed and injured, with some people being shot and killed by police trying to control the riot. Many people like Detroit Congressman John Conyers and Mayor Jerome Cavanaugh helped to stop the riot. Finally, the riot ended on July 27th, although the aftermath of the riot left about $32 million in property damage. When the rumor was started that police were using excessive force during the street bar raid on July 23, 1967, people got furious, which led to the start of the riot, which caused a lot of damage to people

The history of African-Americans in the United States is full of many periods of achievements, as well as periods of struggle. The Los Angeles riots of 1992 were the result of many years of systematic racism in the United States following the Civil Rights Movement. The beating and unjust trial of Rodney King exposed the unfair and brutal treatment of African Americans by the police. As well as the shooting of 15 year-old Latasha Harlins 2 weeks after the beating of Rodney King to further ignite hatred within African-Americans in Los Angeles. What came forth was a week long riot not only changed Los Angeles, but the United States. That is why the Los Angeles riots was the most devastating, yet consequential, civil uproar in the history of the United States.

follows racism are the race riots. One of the biggest riots of the 1920’s was the Tulsa Race Riot, which involved the burning of the Greenwood area, and left many African Americans homeless. The Tulsa Race Riot was concluded to be one of the worst racial violent events in American history. On June 1, 1921 a sequence of really bad events had happened over a course of eighteen hours, and around 1,000 homes and businesses were destroyed and the death rate ranges from 50 to 300 (Franklin ).

The riots were started by the people who now had distrust in the police, because even when caught on tape, they could get away with such brutality. Although many people believe the riots were caused simply by King verdict, but in reality, these extensive cruel actions were a justified protest to the social injustice and inequality in which people live. The media, however focused more upon the matter of prejudice and thus did not portray the riots as an anger from the African American people finding out that the four Los Angeles policemen were found not guilty and were only facing excessive force

On Tuesday May 4, 1886 a labor dispute in Chicago, Illinois turned into a violent episode of American history which wound up costing approximately a dozen people their lives. Union organization was beginning to become more prevalent as men working in factories began to demand fair and save working conditions, including sufficient pay for their work, safety regulations, and a reasonable work day. Following the American Civil War, industrialization expanded throughout the country. In large cities, big factories were erected wherein unskilled laborers would be hired to do certain jobs. For their work, they would be paid a very small amount of money and, if they complained about conditions or pay, a steady flow of immigrants from Europe and Asia were willing to take their place (Huberman 2004, page 964). If a worker were injured and unable to work anymore, then they were out of luck as the employer had no obligation to protect their workers or to help them after they had become disabled. Most of these protests ended peaceably even when the two arguing sides had not reached a consensus. Unfortunately, there were also occasions like the one in Chicago which ended in violence and bloodshed.