riots

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• 8/4/19
  

  Remembering The Red Summer 100 Years Later

  by David Krugler

  How should the challenging but essential task of remembering and commemorating this troubling history be confronted? 

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  7/23/19
  

  Hundreds of black Americans were killed during 'Red Summer.' A century later, still ignored

  It was branded "Red Summer" because of the bloodshed and amounted to some of the worst white-on-black violence in U.S. history.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian.com
  1/7/19
  

  In Land of Lincoln, Long-Buried Traces of a Race Riot Come to the Surface

  by Megan Gannon

  Archaeologists recently uncovered the remains of five houses that lay witness to the tragedy that set Springfield, Illinois, on fire in 1908.

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• 4/29/18
  

  Why Have There Been so Few Serious Urban Riots Since 1968?

  by J. Samuel Walker

  50 years later no one knows for sure, but these are some self-evident factors.

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• 4-9-18
  

  “Washington Is Going to Burn, Washington Is Going to Burn” 

  by Roger Chapman

  How a white eight year old who lived in DC experienced the death of Martin Luther King, Jr.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4-3-18 (accessed)
  

  Where Have All the Rioters Gone?

  by Matthew Desmond

  Good jobs in black communities have disappeared, evictions are the norm, and extreme poverty is rising. Cities should be exploding—but they aren’t.

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• SOURCE: History channel
  4-2-18
  

  Why People Rioted After Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Assassination

  “People were out of control with anger and sadness and frustration.”

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• SOURCE: The Boston Globe
  6-2-17
  

  The forgotten protest that sparked the city’s racial unrest

  Fifty years ago today, 3 days of riots convulsed Roxbury, as the civil rights tumult of the ‘60s finally reached here. It was the violent beginning to an era of change whose end is still not in sight...

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• SOURCE: Dissent Magazine
  4-26-15
  

  Liberal Punishment

  by Mike Konczal

  Liberal law and order expanded during the urban riots of the 1960s.

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• SOURCE: The National Review
  12-2-14
  

  On the ‘Root Cause’ of Riots

  by Abraham H. Miller

  We should’ve learned it in the ’60s: White racism is not the core issue, and money is not the answer.

• SOURCE: CNBC
  6-18-13
  

  Niall Ferguson: Paris could burn this summer

  High youth unemployment in Europe and disappointing growth expectations in the emerging world could mean more mass protests like the ones seen in Brazil, Niall Ferguson told CNBC's "Power Lunch" on Tuesday."There are two kinds of city that we could see burn this summer," Ferguson said. "The big European cities with Paris at the top of the list look extremely vulnerable. Paris has a greater tradition of urban rioting than almost any city in the world."Ferguson, a Harvard University professor, said the French economy is bad and "the youth unemployment problem right across Latin Europe is really an explosion waiting to go off."...