riots

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  5/31/2022
  

  Los Angeles's Response to 1992 Riots Remains Model of How Not to Do It

  by V.N. Trinh

  The strategy of encouraging private business development, without seriously reforming police, fixing public schools, or addressing poverty, proved unequal to the task of promoting justice in LA. 

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• SOURCE: DCist
  12/30/2021
  

  Mosaic Theater Is Collecting H Street Residents’ Protest Stories And Turning Them Into Plays

  “We want to be a place where the stories of our community are uplifted and celebrated and given the spotlight — particularly because so many of those residents are African Americans who have seen so much change happen without their input,” says Reginald Douglas, Mosaic’s new artistic director.

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• 10/17/2021
  

  "The Essential Kerner Commission Report" Links Past and Present, but Abridges the Committee's Process

  by James Thornton Harris

  The Kerner Commission shocked Lyndon Johnson and much of white America by insisting that "the Negro problem" was in fact a problem of pervasive white racism. Two books are essential reading for understanding the commission's work and it's unmet demands. 

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• SOURCE: MSNBC
  8/26/2021
  

  Podcast: Jelani Cobb on the Missed Lessons of the Kerner Commission

  Cobb has edited a new annotated report of the Kerner Commission's findings, and argues that the report's unheeded recommendations are more important today than ever. 

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  7/27/2021
  

  Revisiting Portland a Year after the Rioting

  Elliott Young, a history professor and police reform advocate, is among the Portand residents interviewed about the state of the city a year after destructive protests over police violence drew the far left, far right, and federal law enforcement to the city. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/21/2021
  

  Will We Ever Get Beyond "The Fire Next Time"?

  by Elizabeth Hinton

  "What we witnessed in 2020 was the latest manifestation of an ongoing crisis that could have been solved if elected officials had properly understood the root causes the first time around."

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• SOURCE: In These Times
  5/27/2021
  

  The Deep Downward Spiral of Police Violence and Rebellion, Explained

  by Hamilton Nolan

  A conversation with Elizabeth Hinton, author of “America On Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s.”

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/18/2021
  

  Recasting the ‘Riots’ of the 1960s as Rebellions by Blacks Under Siege

  by Peniel E. Joseph

  Peniel Joseph reviews Elizabeth Hinton's new book "America On Fire" and says it "reconceptualizes the Black freedom struggle between the 1968 assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Lives Matter 2.0 demonstrations that galvanized the nation, and much of the world, in 2020."

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  9/4/2020
  

  The “Law and Order” Backlash Against Biden Was a Mirage

  Donald Trump's "law and order" campaign message has failed to gain significant traction, which should put lazy comparisons to 1968 out to pasture. 

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• 8/16/2020
  

  Gassed: A Personal History

  by Ron Steinman

  I first experienced the horror of CS gas more than 50 years ago. Today when I think of CS gas I remember how badly I felt when tear gassed on the streets of Saigon, and in Northern Ireland.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  8/11/2020
  

  Understanding Today’s Uprisings Requires Understanding What Came Before Them

  by Jeanne Theoharis

  The history of social unrest like the 1965 Watts Rebellion must acknowledge that public authorities had ignored peaceful demands for inclusion and opportunity from communities of color for years before the unrest.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  8/3/2020
  

  She Played a Key Role in the Police Response to the Watts Riots. The Memory Still Haunts Her—But Black History Is Full of Haunting Memories

  by Morgan Jerkins

  Regina was a Black woman working as an LAPD dispatcher in the 77th Street Division of South Los Angeles. She sent officers to respond to another's call for aid on August 11, 1965, warning them not to escalate any situation. Today she still asks “why didn’t they listen to me?”

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• SOURCE: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
  6/24/2020
  

  Madison Protesters Tear Down Capitol Statues, Attack State Senator From Milwaukee As Fury Erupts Again

  The statue of a Wisconsin abolitionist seemed an odd target for protesters. 

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• SOURCE: NBC News
  6/21/2020
  

  Racial Violence and a Pandemic: How the Red Summer of 1919 Relates to 2020

  Geoff Ward, Cameron McWhirter and Saje Mathieu examine the parallels between the notorious "Red Summer" of 1919 and the present. 

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• SOURCE: Miller Center (University of Virginia)
  6/15/2020
  

  Lyndon Johnson Addresses the Nation on Civil Disorders (July 27, 1967)

  Lyndon Johnson's words after rioting erupted in Detroit speak to ongoing concerns in American society.   

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• SOURCE: ABC-7 Chicago
  6/7/2020
  

  Northwestern Historian Kevin Boyle Discusses History of Protests (Video)

  "It's the most profoundly American of acts, to protest peacefully in this nation," Boyle said.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/1/2020
  

  What Would Martin Luther King Jr. Say About The Current Civil Unrest?

  by Peniel Joseph

  Many commentators who now invoke Martin Luther King Jr. to condemn angry protesters fail to grasp that King insisted peace and order could not be achieved without addressing deep racial and economic inequality in American society.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  6/2/2020
  

  Beverly Hills, Buckhead, SoHo: The New Sites of Urban Unrest

  by Emily Badger

  In a reflection of how American cities have changed since the 1960s, demonstrations have included many wealthy areas. Historians and scholars including Thomas Sugrue, Alison Isenberg and Lester Spence comment on this change. 

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  5/31/2020
  

  Words Matter When Talking About Race, Unrest, Experts Say

  UCLA historian Robin Kelley insists rebellions occur when the usual channels for affecting change in a democracy – nonviolent protest, voting – have been ineffective, and the term "riot" obscures that fact.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/1/2020
  

  Five Reasons ‘Law and Order’ Rhetoric Might not Work as Well in 2020 as in 1968

  by Max Boot

  The “Southern strategy” could work again this year, but there are at least five reasons to believe it might not be as potent as in the past.