Kennedy mostly avoided civil rights issues, afraid to alienate Southern ... Detroit had seemed immune to the race riots that overwhelmed dozens of American cities — after all, the local economy ...

There have been further race riots in the UK since ... it was a watershed moment for the civil rights movement in the US. The death of a non-violent man led to riots across the USA.

Robert Parris Moses, a civil rights activist who was shot at and ... two months after a race riot left three dead and injured 60 in the neighborhood. His grandfather, William Henry Moses, has ...

While conservative activists praise these efforts as a return to meritocracy, left-leaning activists believe these actions ...

Their propaganda campaign led to a coup d’etat, widely referred to as the Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 which ... helped spark the direct action civil rights movement of the 1960s.

One way that black Americans showed their frustration with the continuing discrimination was through race riots. Tens of thousands of people rioted in Watts, California, in 1965 and a large number ...