Race Riots in America

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The paper traces the history of race riots in the U.S. during the 20th century, finding many similarities between the sources of the problems, but also many differences in the riot patterns and the variety of races involved. In order to illustrate this thesis, the writer compares the Watts riot in 1965 and the Los Angeles riot in 1992 in order to reveal developments in the face of race riots in the nineties.

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"The Civil Rights Movement was born during the Eisenhower years from 1953 to 1961 and provided an united voice for the African Americans to protest against the racial discrimination that continued to linger within their communities (Walters 20). Led by Martin Luther King, Jr. and his advocates of non-violent direct action, the protesters from the Civil Rights Movements triggered violent responses from the white people that led to bloody riots. King's strategy of using non-violent direction action to create tension and send fear into the white moderates of potential social disorder led to major riots (Ling 17). King's Chicago Freedom Movement, designed to improve housing for the African-American people in Chicago triggered a violent response from thousands of angry white people who threw rocks and jeered at the protesters (Ralph 30)."

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