Four LAPD Officers Who Beat Rodney King are Acquitted, Prompting LA Riots
The 1992 Los Angeles riots were a series of riots and civil disturbances that occurred in Los Angeles County from April 29 – May 4, 1992. Unrest …
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Student Anti-War Rebellions Erupt Across the U.S. after Nixon Sends US Troops from Vietnam into Cambodia
On April 30, 1970, then President Richard Milhouse Nixon announced he was sending US troops from Vietnam into Cambodia, a diplomatically-neutral country. His announcement set …
The Zoot Suit Riots
The formation of the Los Angeles Police Department began in 1877. The primary duties and responsibilities of the department were to protect the elite capitalist …
Tulsa Race Riots of 1921: 26 Blacks, 10 Whites Killed, Greenwood Commercial District Destroyed
The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, took place on May 31 and June 1, 1921, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In what some historians have called “the …
Peak of the Luddite Rebellion
New research marking the bicentenary of Luddism – a workers’ uprising which swept through parts of England in 1812 – has thrown into question whether …