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 ...

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 ...

BELCO held a ceremony today [Jan 31] alongside the Electrical Supply Trade Union [ESTU] and the Bermuda Industrial Union [BIU ...

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In the 1960s, the activist fought against employment ... which was before the New York City Stonewall Riots in June 1969. Mark Segal, the founder of Philadelphia Gay News, was at the Stonewall ...

Fred Harris (D-Okla.), the last surviving member of the Kerner Commission, a panel appointed by President Lyndon Johnson in 1967 to examine the causes of the 1960s riots, died on Saturday.