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Ghetto riots (1964–1969)

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Kerner Commission, on July 28, 1967 to explore the causes behind the recurring outbreaks of urban civil disorder. The commission's scope included the 164 disorders occurring in the first nine months of 1967. The president had directed them, in simple words, to document what happened, find out why it happened, and find out how to prevent it.
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Many rioters can be seen as disillusioned African Americans whose families may have moved to cities to find better living conditions but after generations remained stuck in urban ghettos with little economic mobility. Local troubles with access to decent housing and work along with other factors like
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The riots confounded many civil rights activists of both races due to the recent passage of major civil rights legislation. They also caused a backlash among Northern whites, many of whom stopped supporting civil rights causes. President Johnson formed an advisory commission, informally known as the
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concerning the endemic social unrest in the nation's cities, President Johnson remarked, "What did you expect? I don't know why we're so surprised. When you put your foot on a man's neck and hold him down for three hundred years, and then you let him up, what's he going to do? He's going to knock
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The commission's 1968 report identified police practices, unemployment and underemployment, and lack of adequate housing as the most significant grievances motivating the rage. It suggested legislative measures to promote racial integration and alleviate poverty and concluded that the nation was
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Before the ghetto riots of the 1960s, African American violent resistance to challenge white dominance was much more limited, including only small slave rebellions and armed defenses in the early 1900s. Most of these actions were defensive in nature rather than retaliatory, it was not until the
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Seven months after President Nixon announced that $ 200million had been earmarked for a special effort to begin cleaning and refurbishing riot-damaged areas in 20 cities, the target areas appear pretty much as they were then -- firescarred, boarded up buildings and rubble-strewn lots and
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Rioters often acted collectively, destroying property they viewed as being owned by those exploiting them. Police officers often were antagonists to rioters and their actions and racist language became symbols of the oppressive conditions faced by African Americans.
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of Los Angeles in 1965. After 34 people were killed and $ 35 million (equivalent to $ 338.39 million in 2023) in property was damaged, the public feared an expansion of the violence to other cities, and so the appetite for additional programs in President
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were unplanned and mostly attacked property of white owned businesses rather than people. Before this, most American riots involved brutal attacks against minorities. The riots resulted in over 150 deaths and over 20,000 arrests.
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is viewed as the first of clusters of riots, uncoordinated with each other, evidently unplanned, most often in cities during the summer months. The pattern caused 159 separate incidents of violence and unrest over the
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in certain situations. Johnson considered vetoing the bill, but the apparent popularity of the bill convinced him to sign it. In August 1969, federal officials considered the period of large-scale riots to be over.
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that African Americans seemed to take initiative in violent conflicts. By the 1950s and 1960s significant societal changes had taken place which fostered conditions for much more open rebellion. Recent
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in 1964 is seen as the beginning of a wave of civil unrest that would engulf New York City and begin to be seen in cities throughout the country until calming in 1968 with the last being the
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Mayor Lindsay prodded the Nixon Administration yesterday to come up with "far more" than the millions of dollars promised earlier this week to repair riot-wrecked neighborhoods.
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Immediate causes were often aggressive confrontations between African Americans and whites or police officers that drew a crowd and began to spiral into violence and chaos.
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A riot was narrowly averted in Brooklyn yesterday as civil rights demonstrators continued to press for more jobs for Negroes and Puerto Ricans in the construction industry.
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Federal officials believe that the era of large-scale urban rioting of the kind seen in Los Angeles, Detroit and Newark in recent years has come to a close.
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refers to summer social unrest across the United States in the mid-to-late 1960s, characterized by African American groups using violent tactics.
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In July 1963, demonstrations in Brooklyn for better working conditions in the construction industry had reportedly risked escalating to riots.
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and middle-class Black flight from city centers also antagonized lower-class minority populations who had struggled to migrate to cities.
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called it "a revolution of black Americans against white Americans, a violent petition for the redress of long-standing grievances." The
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asked to increase federal funds but as of November 1969 the $ 200 million promised to restore 20 cities had not yet come to fruition.
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resulted in 43 deaths, 2250 injuries, 4,000 arrests, and millions of dollars' worth of property damage. Governor
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in more than 130 cities across the country. A few days later, in a candid comment made to press secretary
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Conservative elements of American society regarded the riots as evidence for the need of law and order.
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warned that untrained and undisciplined local police forces and National Guardsmen might trigger a "
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Judgment days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the laws that changed America
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Louis C Goldberg (1968). "Ghetto Riots and Others: the Faces of Civil Disorder in 1967".
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asserted that Great Society legislation had affected little fundamental improvement. The
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The momentum for the advancement of civil rights came to a sudden halt with riots in the
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From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
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David Boesel (1970). "The Liberal Society, Black Youths, and the Ghetto Riots".
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In the Heat of the Summer: The New York Riots of 1964 and the War on Crime
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Herbert J Gans (1968). "The Ghetto Rebellions and Urban Class Conflict".
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Part of political violence in the United States during the Cold War
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The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
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made social order a prime issue in his campaign for president.
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Widespread rioting, looting, assault, arson, property damage
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in over 100 American cities in 1968, and relented in 1969.
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The six days of unrest throughout New York City during the
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The Long, Hot Summer of 1967: Urban Rebellion in America
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A Black man arrested by white LAPD officers during the
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List of incidents of civil unrest in the United States
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police harassment made urban areas ripe for violence.
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Index

Ghetto riots (1964-1969)
Ghetto uprisings

Watts uprising
United States
Police brutality in the United States
Racism in the United States
Urban decay
White flight
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Ghetto riots (1964–1969)
Harlem riot of 1964
1964 Rochester race riot
Dixmoor race riot
1964 Philadelphia race riot
Watts riots
1966 Chicago West Side riots
Hough riots
1966 Perth Amboy riots
Waukegan riot of 1966
1966 Dayton race riot
Hunters Point social uprising
Long, hot summer of 1967
King assassination riots
1969 York race riot
Harlem riot of 1964
long, hot summer of 1967
Detroit

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