The Historic Westside of Las Vegas is often forgotten. Still, the neighborhood is a pivotal part of the city’s history, ...

But local civil rights leaders had harsher words for the conditions which fomented the riots in the first place ... Noel Day, head of the Massachusetts Freedom Movement, said that Indianapolis ...

Americans saw the heroes of the civil rights movement on the national news ... of Illinois explored the reasons behind the Detroit riots of 1967. The commission presented a report in February ...

The same issues would re-emerge decades later, in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s ... some terrible riots occurred in the South, namely in Memphis and New Orleans, which were ...

The MLK quote “a riot is the language of the unheard ... who became one of the most important figures in the civil rights movement, helped unite a divided nation. With a letter opener protruding ...

Barry Linnane reports on the civil rights riots in Newry [no date on disc label but Northern Ireland riots, including events in Newry, took place 12–16 August 1969]. Includes recordings from the ...

The civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s was an important ... Many activists were killed in counter-protests, riots and assassinations. Malcolm X was assassinated in 1965 and Martin ...