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A riot or a Revolution – evaluating the American Revolution?

Dr. King fought tirelessly for socio-economic justice and quality for the underprivileged and oppressed before being killed by an assassin’s bullet, yet, the reckless behavior of today’s minority youth leads many to believe that his death was in vain. Would our society be the same if he was still alive?

The widely publicized death of Yusef Hawkins, a young African American man killed by a group of whites in Bensonhurst, New York, in August 1989, created outrage across the country and severely aggravated racial tensions in New York City.

The Augusta (Georgia) Riot of 1970 began on the evening of May 11 and ended before dawn the next day. During the riot, six people were killed, all black men, each one shot in the back by police. In addition to those deaths, 80 people were injured, 200 were arrested, and 50 businesses in the city’s center, many owned by Augusta’s Chinese residents, were burned.

The 1970 July 4th holiday weekend began with a period of civil unrest for Asbury Park, New Jersey. Although the trouble started Saturday evening with a few groups of young people breaking windows, Asbury Park’s West Side community had been plagued by a significant lack of jobs, adequate housing, and recreation facilities that contributed to the unrest for many years.

In August 1908, Springfield, Illinois, experienced three days of racial violence after the murder of a white man and the alleged rape of a white woman by black men. In response, an angry mob of white rioters wreaked havoc on the city, destroying black businesses, homes, and lives.

On August 1, 1943, a New York City police officer arrested an African American woman for disturbing the peace at the Braddock Hotel in Harlem. Robert Brady, a black soldier in the U.S. military, observed the fracas. He intervened by trying to get the police officer to release the woman.

The destruction a crowd can wreak.

A brief history of the mainstreaming of punk rock values in American culture and music. Spans punk’s birth to the early 2000’s.