Context and Facts
The location where the riots took place
What is Los Angeles, California?
What the protestors did that was illegal
What is looting and burning?
Immediate material effect of the riots
What is property destruction?
The year the Riots occurred
What is 1965?
The event that sparked the riots
What is the arrest of Marquette Frye?
Social conflict that still occurs today that formed after the riots
What is police brutality?
A form of discrimination, that occurred in the South, recently outlawed before the riots
What is Segregation
The governments immediate response to the riots
What is Police and National Guardsmen?
The amount of people that were killed
What is 34?
Groups that influenced the riots or were formed soon after
What is Nation of Islam or Black Panther?
The specific form of protest that happened
What is violence?
Initiative started by the President in response to the riots
What is the War on Poverty?
The exact dates this event occurred
What is August 11th to 17th, 1965?
The root causes of the riots according to MLK
What are social and economic inequalities?
Reasons rioters gave for engaging in violence over civil disobedience
What is lack of recognition of social and economic injustices