It was this as a backdrop that the urban riots of the 1960's took place. And sadly, the riots in turn only made the situation worse. Neighborhoods that already were in decline were in many cases ...

Half a century before the riots in Ferguson, Mo., and Baltimore, Md., America saw in Los Angeles’s Watts neighborhood the first of the 1960s’ horrifying urban riots. The Berkeley students ...

Poverty led to social problems across America. Dr Martin Luther King Jnr blamed poverty as a cause of the Watts Riots in Los Angeles in 1965.

The race riots of the mid 1960s and the Black Power salute given by two American athletes at the Mexico Olympics in 1968 demonstrated a deeply divided country. The Kerner Commission was set up in ...

Civic authority was never restored after the late 1960s riots, which never really ended; they just continued in slow motion. “It got decided a long time ago in Detroit,” explained Adolph ...

ALGIERS, Algeria, Jan. 24--Angry crowds fought riot police with guns tonight, goaded by French rightist leaders to rise against President Charles de Gaulle. The French commander termed it a mutiny ...

“Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly ... Johnson and Sylvia Rivera played a central role in the 1969 Stonewall Riots in Manhattan, New York, which marked a major turning ...

Fred Harris (D-Okla.), the last surviving member of the Kerner Commission, a panel appointed by President Lyndon Johnson in ...