Watts Riots

Chapters 11 and 12 in “Not in My Neighborhood” deal with Edmonson Village, a quaint, Catholic and mainly white section of Baltimore. Nothing was out of place in Edmonson Village, with TV’s running schedules and businesses thriving. But the families in the houses would stay put, being the only owners most of the time. This would mean the entire generation borne from the times of segregation did not take kindly to African Americans trying to settle in. See, black people were being vastly mistreated. Living in slums and segregated from sanitary and adequate living. But after the Civil Rights Act is passed and separation of blacks and whites is outlawed, African Americans begin earning enough to live in better quality homes, and looking to more upscale parts of

“As a ‘double whammy’ of drought and depression deepened on the Great Plains, more and more farmers gave up or were forced off of their land” (Winter). According to Bart Robinson, an eyewitness, “Many people thought it was a plague” (Robinson). The migrant workers started moving away. “When pioneers headed west in the late 19th century, many couldn’t resist the lure of the tall grassy land in the semiarid Midwestern and Southern plains of the United States” (“Black Sunday”). Many people did travel to other states. Though “the exact scale of migrants is unknown but it’s estimated that up to 400,000 Southwesterns moved west during the 1930s and to 300,000 moved into California a decade earlier” (Sander). Dust Bowl refugees found roots in California (Winter). “Sometimes they found work, but mostly they found heartbreak and anger” (Robinson). They had once “owned profitable farms. Then they had nothin’ but hunger and dirt and two cents a barrel” (Robinson). Some migrant workers had trouble finding houses within their price range. “Many of the migrant workers lived in labor camps”

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.

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.

During the times of the California Gold Rush in the 1800’s, and Ellis island in the early 1900’s, an even larger mass of migrants bombarded into our

The Mexican Migrant Farm Workers’ community formed in Southern California in the 20th century because of two factors that came together: farming emphasized by migrations like the Okie farmers from the East and Mexicans “imported” to the U.S. because of the need for cheap labor as a replacement of Americans during World War II. The migrant labor group formed after an already similar group in the U.S had been established in California, the American farm workers from the East, known as the Okies. The Dust Bowl of the 1930s caused the movement of the Okies to the West and was followed by the transition from American dominant farm labor to Mexican migrant labor. The Okies reinforced farming in California through the skills they took with them,

Since there were no farming opportunities many people had to find new jobs. Midwesterners began to start to travel farther west to states such as California and Oregon in order to find jobs and escape the dust. These “migrant workers” fled to these western states in the thousands. According to Prentice Hall: The American Nation, these workers were not well received.

There are very few situations in which violence is the proper response. However, even before this country was established Americans have been using violence to communicate their ideas when they feel that they are not being heard. A very good example of this is the race riot, which has been a very frequent occurrence in American history, especially in the past century. Whenever a riot occurs, those involved often come under heavy scrutiny, and are heavily criticized as savage or unintelligent. In Particular the Baltimore riots of 2015 were heavily scrutinized and those that were involved were often referred to a senseless thugs. However I believe that the Baltimore Riots were a necessary evil that helped the country to move closer to equality.

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

Going to the second Watts Riot or Rebellion I found that the people that were talking to us about the Watts Rebellion where people that were directly affected by it. A Gentlemen named Guilion who was born in Miami, Florida moved his business from Miami to Carson California about 3 miles away from Cal State University Dominguez Hills. He was an older gentlemen probably in his late 70s early 80s and he said he remembers the day the Riots began. He said he was sitting in his store which was a shoe store he wouldn't give the name of the store but he said it was on the news and he encouraged us to look it up he said he is pretty sure it was on the internet, but he said the watts rebellion ruined his business for a great deal of time. He said

Thousands of migrants in the 1920’s - 1950’s envisioned Compton, California as the perfect place to settle down and ideal center for industrial workers. That vision did come true for white Americans, although it

During the 1930's the Dust Bowl occurred forcing many of the tenet farmers, the migrants, to move away from their farmland to California in hope of a better life. In this

While being one of the largest, it has also been known in the past as the most ethnic example of neighborhoods. Resident of City Heights and writer of San Diego Free Press Anna Daniels describes how the street vendors used to advertise their specialties to the apartments walls from the pedestrian walks of the center square of the community, “La fruta, la tortilla, las verduras, se van”, and choices from variety authentic mom and pop shops. This small entrepreneurship activity used to mark the essence of the hub of City Heights, but has since been struck off the map at the epicenter by the Premium Office Spaces, rising above and casting a shadow over the rest of the community. If the residents had created a working market to their own making, why did the city undergo the City Heights Redevelopment Project? The answer, I believe, is an incredibly biased one: because street vendors and mom and pop shops limit capitalist control over a public space. Largely Latino communities, like City Heights, are targeted because such ethnic liveliness “blur[s] the lines between commercial and residential activities” (Rojas, 38. Added letter is my own.). To allow this cultural infusion would relinquish control of the central space of the community to the locals, and therefore must be ‘redeveloped’ at first

The great migration took place between 1900 and 1930, and is one of the most important migrations in modern history. The events that transpired right before the migration directly influenced the decision for many to come to America. Many Mexicans entered the U.S. from Mexico, in search for a more prosperous life for themselves and often times their families as well. Gonzales argues that as each decade has gone by, the number of immigrants from Mexico to America has increased. According to data from Ruggles & Carter, the number of immigrants steadily rose from under 10,000 in 1880, to 90,000 in 1925. The claim that more Mexicans have come to America as opposed to any other Ethnic group makes sense. Surely it is easier geographically to migrate from one Country to another when you’re on the same continent (particularly if those who are migrating are doing so illegally). Gonzales argues that the lives of those living in Mexico are more difficult compared to those who immigrated to America, which is why they immigrated. This claim has validity due to the conditions that the Mexican Revolution caused. Sales of

When discussing about African Americans in Chicago Illinois 1950 we found out that there was a big migration that moved from the south to Chicago. The population of blacks in Chicago made people discriminate them because they were overrunning their home. It was hard for blacks to find a job and homes because they wouldn't have enough money and there was so many people but not enough homes. Additionally, the problems African Americans faced with real estate lead to an all African American neighborhood that was overcrowded and put African Americans in terrible living conditions. There is a picture that shows a protest happening, where people are holding up signs saying “Real Estate Exploitation Creates Ghettos.”