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Protests, Riots and Civil Unrest
Protests are often held as peaceful demonstrations. However, during times of civil unrest, a small spark can set off a violent riot. Protests have happened all over the world, and are sometimes history-changing events.
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What event helped lead to protest and tragedy at kent state university on May 4 1970?
announcement of invasion of cambodia
What famous king caused the American colonist to protest no taxation without representation?
George The Third
Were the black panthers non violent?
The Black panthers used violence when necessary, they where inspired by Malcolm X who was an av ed user of violence against white people. One of their main aims from the Ten Point Programme was "Violence was essential in the struggle against colonial oppression".
Why were people scared to protest against the Nazis?
The Nazis did not give people the freedom to assemble. Any dissidents were thrown into the Concentration Camps just like the "Undesirables". People literally feared for their lives.
What did the American colonies protest as taxation without representation?
The colonial Americans were protesting against the British for taxing them without representation in acts like the stamp act and the tea tax. The Americans protested by doing things such as the Boston tea party. These events plus other led to the beginning on the American revolutionary war
What colonial protest methods used to show their disapproval of British laws?
Colonial methods were organizing riots, protesting, and boycotting.
Why were the Vietnam War protests started on college campuses?
College student males were the prime candidates for the military draft; they could safely remain "draft dodgers" if they maintained a 2.0 education average and carried at least 18 college units. Once they dropped below those two established standards...they were draft eligible. Knowing this...college students protested the war (a disquise for protesting the draft).
Where exactly did the Los Angeles riots happen?
Rodney King:
nKing is on the ground. At this time taser wires can be seen coming from King's body. As King moved forward Officer Powell then struck King with his baton, the blow hit King's head knocking him to the ground immediately. Powell hit King several additional times with his baton. Koon reportedly yelled "that's enough". King then rose to his knees: Powell and Wind continued to hit King with their batons while he was on the ground.
nKoon acknowledged that he ordered the baton blows, directing Powell and Wind to hit King with "power strokes". According to Koon, Powell and Wind used "bursts of power strokes, then backed off". Notwithstanding the repeated "power strokes", Finally, after 56 baton blows and six kicks, five or six officers swarmed in and placed King in both handcuffs and cord cuffs restraining his arms and legs. King was dragged on his stomach to the side of the road to await arrival of a rescue ambulance.
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Brian Willson "Nuremberg Actions at Concord 1987-88"
What methods did the colonists use to protest actions by parliament?
he farted so hard he died and the smell... let me tell you... it was terible!
The watts riot in 1965 symbolized?
The Watts riot in 1965 symbolized the more militant and confrontation phase of the civil rights movement
What was the focus of Gandhi protest?
Gandhi protest against the British nonviolently. The reason he did this was because the British had bribed them with gold and trade, and had Indies trust in the British. As they keep giving their trust gradually the British took over India. The British had control over them for several years, finally the Indies had enough so they just got in the way of everything and did not hit or push back when the British got them. They just keep getting back up and going on and this went on for a few days and finally the British had enough and went home!! So Gandhi's focus was to to get the British out of there with out anyone from either side getting hurt. Needless to say Gandhi was a pretty smart guy:)
What happen in the race riots of 1919?
On the afternoon of July 27, 1919, Eugene Williams, a black youth, drowned off the 29th Street beach. A stone throwing melee between blacks and whites on the beach prevented the boy from coming ashore safely. After clinging to a railroad tie for a lengthy period, he drowned when he no longer had the strength to hold on. This was the finding of the Cook County Coroner's Office after an inquest was held into the cause of death. William Tuttle, Jr.'s book, Race Riot: Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919,includes a 1969 interview with an eyewitness. This witness was one of the boys swimming and playing with Eugene Williams in Lake Michigan between 26th Street and the 29th Street Beach. He recalled having rocks thrown at them by a single white male standing on a breakwater 75 feet from their raft. Eugene was struck in the forehead and as his friend attempted to aid him, Eugene panicked and drowned. The man on the breakwater left, running toward the 29th Street Beach. By this time rioting had already erupted there precipitated by vocal and physical demonstrations against a group of blacks who wanted to use the beach in defiance of its tacit designation as a "white" beach. The rioting escalated when a white police officer refused to arrest the white man, by now identified as the perpetrator of the separate incident near 26th Street. Instead he arrested a black individual. Anger over this, coupled with rumors and innuendoes that spread in both camps regarding Eugene Williams death led to 5 days of rioting in Chicago that ultimately claimed the lives of 23 blacks and 15 whites, with 291 wounded and maimed. The Coroner's Office spent 70 day sessions and 20 night sessions on inquest work and in examining 450 witnesses. Those findings, reported in the Coroner's Report of 1919 are followed by his recommendations to deal with the festering social and economic conditions that were the underlying factors of the riots. www.chipublib.org/004chicago/disasters/riots_race.html
