The equivocating response to the riots by Dewey and the grand jury showed, to anyone who doubted it, the political necessity of such purges. If the civil rights movement had maintained its ties to ...

The Hough Riot, which ended in a downpour rainstorm, was part of a national pattern of civil rights riots. The neighborhood ...

The Civil Rights Movement has come to a juncture where its friends, both black and white, will have to make a choice: should race riots be encouraged or even condoned as one of the Movement's ...

But local civil rights leaders had harsher words for the conditions which fomented the riots in the first place. "It seems to me dammed funny that the same so-called Negro leaders who can't step ...

Whitehouse argued: “Whatever the rights and wrongs ... some argued the riots were not acts of terrorism, but thuggery, or in ...

In the months after the riots, Walz urged sweeping changes. He called lawmakers back into a special session that July. They ...

“The Springfield 1908 Race Riot was a horrific and significant part of our nation’s march toward equality and civil rights. As we work to tell America’s story—even when difficult—may ...

After President Biden signed a proclamation to designate the Springfield 1908 Race Riot National Monument, civil rights leaders spoke to reporters in the White House driveway. After President ...

1963-- Civil rights leader Medgar Evers is killed by a sniper's bullet. Race riots prompt modified martial law in Cambridge, Maryland. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivers "I Have a Dream" speech ...

The Civil Rights Law is geared against discrimination ... For example, in 1866, only a year after the war had ended, some terrible riots occurred in the South, namely in Memphis and New Orleans ...