Understanding Urban Unrest: From Reverend King to Rodney King

Abstract

Introduction Los Angeles '92 Was Nothing New Civil Rights and Uncivil Riots, 1964 through 1966 Reverend King, The Urban Poor and an Epidemic of Rioting, 1966 Riot-Driven Public Policy, 1966 through 1968 Model Cities Program Plays Out, 1969 through 1975 From Reverend King to Rodney King Responding to Urban Interracial Mob Violence in the 1990s Urban Poverty, Interracial Mob Violence and Federal Reaction The Problem and Political Contexts Urban Poverty, Interracial Mob Violence and Federal Reaction The Policy Context