Add to ORKGIn the summer of 1967 some eighty American cities were convulsed by racial disorders, interpreted as senseless violence by White America, interpreted as the nascent stage of revolution by Black Power militants. In that summer, the House of Representatives slashed the Model Cities programme, eliminated rent subsidies for the city poor, reduced federal aid to education, and voted down a $40 million rat extermination programme the same week as it approved $10 million for an aquarium in the District of Columbia, and with little opposition, passed an anti-riot bill, specifically directed against SNCC leaders. In that summer a special police helicopter, armed with a Thompson submachine- gun and financed by private business groups, buzzed over Cle...
On October 15, 1971, Memphis police officers beat Elton Hayes, a seventeen-year old black youth, to ...
Often, when United States citizens think of “militants, ” they tend to think of Blacks. This image o...
The relentless heat seemed to breed violence during the summer of 1967, as the simmering resentment ...
During the summer of 1967, the United States experienced a series of race riots across the nation's ...
During the summer of 1967, the United States experienced a series of race riots across the nation's ...
On the morning of July 16, 1964, a white police officer in New York City shot and killed a black tee...
In May of 1968 Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes launched an ambitious social welfare program titled “Clev...
This paper looks at the U.S. American federal War on Poverty programs as a progressive attempt at re...
In 1971, the United States federal government, under the leadership of President Richard Nixon, decl...
Bayard Rustin feared that Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination would bring about a deepening sense...
Black power in the late 1960s was once blamed for the fall of the civil rights movement. The more mi...
The urban riots of the mid- and late-1960s in this nation were devastating: In the three years from ...
It seemed at times during the 1960s that America was caught in an unending cycle of violence and dis...
During the 1960s and 1970s, Congress and policymakers engaged in a heated debate over the proper rol...
On the evening of July 23, 1968 violence erupted between police and a black militant group led by Fr...
On October 15, 1971, Memphis police officers beat Elton Hayes, a seventeen-year old black youth, to ...
Often, when United States citizens think of “militants, ” they tend to think of Blacks. This image o...
The relentless heat seemed to breed violence during the summer of 1967, as the simmering resentment ...
During the summer of 1967, the United States experienced a series of race riots across the nation's ...
During the summer of 1967, the United States experienced a series of race riots across the nation's ...
On the morning of July 16, 1964, a white police officer in New York City shot and killed a black tee...
In May of 1968 Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes launched an ambitious social welfare program titled “Clev...
This paper looks at the U.S. American federal War on Poverty programs as a progressive attempt at re...
In 1971, the United States federal government, under the leadership of President Richard Nixon, decl...
Bayard Rustin feared that Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination would bring about a deepening sense...
Black power in the late 1960s was once blamed for the fall of the civil rights movement. The more mi...
The urban riots of the mid- and late-1960s in this nation were devastating: In the three years from ...
It seemed at times during the 1960s that America was caught in an unending cycle of violence and dis...
During the 1960s and 1970s, Congress and policymakers engaged in a heated debate over the proper rol...
On the evening of July 23, 1968 violence erupted between police and a black militant group led by Fr...
On October 15, 1971, Memphis police officers beat Elton Hayes, a seventeen-year old black youth, to ...
Often, when United States citizens think of “militants, ” they tend to think of Blacks. This image o...
The relentless heat seemed to breed violence during the summer of 1967, as the simmering resentment ...