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Author : Los Angeles Times (Firm)
Publisher : Los Angeles Times Books
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105060073454
The causes and the aftermath of the 1992 riots.
Author : Rebecca Rissman
Publisher : ABDO Publishing Company
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781629680330
This title examines an important historic event--the police beating of Rodney King in 1991 and the riots in Los Angeles, California, in 1992. Easy-to-read, compelling text explores the events of March 3, 1991, when a high-speed car chase ended in King's beating, the significance of the video tape of the beating, the officers' trials, and the riots that followed their acquittal in May 1992. Key to the discussion is an examination of the racial context of the riots, including preexisting racial tensions in the city. Also discussed are the 1993 federal trial and the aftermath of the riots. Features include a table of contents, glossary, selected bibliography, Web sites, source notes, and an index, plus a timeline and essential facts. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Author : Lou Cannon
Publisher : Crown
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Current Events
ISBN : UVA:X004174175
How Rodney King and the riots changed Los Angeles and the LAPD.
Author : Rodney King,Lawrence J. Spagnola
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780062194626
On a dark street, what began as a private moment between a citizen and the police became a national outrage. Rodney Glen King grew up in the Altadena Pasadena section of Los Angeles with four siblings, a loving mother, and an alcoholic father. Soon young Rodney followed in Dad's stumbling steps, beginning a lifetime of alcohol abuse. King had been drinking the night of March 3, 1991, when he engaged in a high-speed chase with the LAPD, who finally pulled him over. What happened next shocked the nation. A group of officers brutally beat King with their metal batons, Tasered and kicked him into submission—all caught on videotape by a nearby resident. The infamous Rodney King Incident was born when this first instance of citizen surveillance revealed a shocking moment of police brutality, a horrific scene that stunned and riveted the nation via the evening news. Racial tensions long smoldering in L.A. ignited into a firestorm thirteen months later when four white officers were acquitted by a mostly white jury. Los Angeles was engulfed in flames as people rioted in the streets. More than fifty people were dead, hundreds were hospitalized, and countless homes and businesses were destroyed. King's plaintive question, "Can we all just get along?" became a sincere but haunting plea for reconciliation that reflected the heartbreak and despair caused by America's racial discord in the early 1990s. While Rodney King is now an icon, he is by no means an angel. King has had run-ins with the law and continues a lifelong struggle with alcohol addiction. But King refuses to be bitter about the crippling emotional and physical damage that was inflicted upon him that night in 1991. While this nation has made strides during those twenty years to heal, so has Rodney King, and his inspiring story can teach us all lessons about forgiveness, redemption, and renewal, both as individuals and as a nation.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : African Americans
ISBN : OCLC:1245908208
Coverage of the 1992 L.A. riots by the Los Angeles Times.
Author : Michael D. Cole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0766012190
Acts of violence, inspired by anger at a not-guilty verdict acquitting three Los Angeles police officers in the Rodney King assault trial, took Los Angeles hostage. By the end of the rampage, sixty people were dead, twenty-three hundred more were injured, and thousands of businesses lay in smoky ruins. This account captures the tense mood of one of the deadliest riots in American history.
Author : Robert Gooding-Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135207229
Reading Rodney King/Reading Urban Uprising keeps the public debate alive by exploring the connections between the Rodney King incidents and the ordinary workings of cultural, political, and economic power in contemporary America. Its recurrent theme is the continuing, complicated significance of race in American society. Contributors: Houston A. Baker, Jr.; Judith Butler; Sumi K. Cho; Kimberle Crenshaw; Mike Davis; Thomas L. Dumm; Walter C. Farrell, Jr.; Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; Ruth Wilson Gilmore; Robert Gooding-Williams; James H. Johnson, Jr.; Elaine H. Kim; Melvin L. Oliver; Michael Omi; Gary Peller; Cedric J. Robinson; Jerry Watts; Cornel West; Patricia Williams; Rhonda M. Williams; Howard Winant.
Author : Don Hazen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : African Americans
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173000634638
This is a collection of aritcles about what happened during the riots following the Rodney King verdict, the causes of these riots, similar situations which have provoked unrest in other cities, and what is needed for social justice.
Author : Darnell M. Hunt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0521578140
On April 29, 1992, the "worst riots of the century" (Los Angeles Times) erupted. Television newsworkers tried frantically to keep up with what was happening on the streets while, around the city, nation and globe, viewers watched intently as leaders, participants, and fires flashed across their television screens. Screening the Los Angeles "riots" zeroes in on the first night of these events, exploring in detail the meanings one news organization found in them, as well as those made by fifteen groups of viewers in the events' aftermath. Combining ethnographic and quasi-experimental methods, Darnell M. Hunt's account reveals how race shapes both television's construction of news and viewers' understandings of it. He engages with the longstanding debates about the power of television to shape our thoughts versus our ability to resist, and concludes with implications for progressive change.
Author : Mark Baldassare,David O Sears,Edgar W Butler,Peter A Morrison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000303070
The Los Angeles riots in the Spring of 1992 were among the most violent and destructive events in twentieth-century urban America. This collection of original essays by leading urban experts offers the first comprehensive analysis of the unrest that took place after a jury acquitted the police officers who were accused of using excessive force in t
Author : Ryan Gattis
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443440783
In 1991, a black man named Rodney King was severely beaten by multiple white police officers after a high-speed car chase that ended in a suburb of Los Angeles, an event that might have escaped the eyes of the American public had a witness not videotaped it from his balcony. The officers were taken to court, but eventually acquitted, and thus spawned the 1992 Los Angeles Riots: six days of looting, arson, assault, and murder that spread from South Central LA into the Los Angeles metropolitan area, and only stopped after soldiers from the National Guard were called in as backup for the overwhelmed and vilified LAPD. But on the streets of the South Central neighbourhood of Lynwood, the story played out differently than on the national news. In All Involved, Ryan Gattis weaves a narrative from the perspectives of people whose stories of the riots were never told--members of the gang underworld. Inspired by unprecedented access to the inner workings of these organizations, Gattis channels their experiences into a gritty, cinematic tale that is both shocking and devastating. Though the events of this book are fiction, every word is infused with authenticity and intimacy. Evoking the anger, the uncertainty, and the turmoil of those six days, Gattis turns Los Angeles from merely a setting to a living, breathing entity. With the velocity of a fast-paced thriller and the commanding talent of an incredibly adept writer, All Involved is an epic story of race, revenge, loyalty--at once fiercely identifiable as a novel of Los Angeles, yet also recognizable as a story of America--its history, its prejudices, and its complexities, laid bare.
Author : Louise I. Gerdes
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-14
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780737770551
The American public was holding its collective breath as four officers of the Los Angeles Police Department were acquitted of excessive force in the arrest and beating of Rodney King. Upon the exhale came relief for some, but for many more came a crushing grief and anger. This essential volume gives readers a strong background on the events leading up to the 1992 Los Angeles Riots. Essays also present the controversies related to the event, including whether the police department protected its citizens during the riots. The last chapter shares first-person narratives and accounts of those impacted by the riots, giving your readers a chance to go beyond simple facts and experience the event for themselves.
Author : Eve Bunting
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0152699546
Daniel, his mother and cat watch an inner-city riot from their apartment window. When their building catches alight they are evacuated to a church. Observations from child's point of view.
Author : John Salak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015029578005
Surveys the background and causes of urban unrest in America and describes the 1992 riots in Los Angeles and their aftermath.
Author : John Buntin
Publisher : Crown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-06
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780307352088
Now the TNT Original Series MOB CITY Midcentury Los Angeles. A city sold to the world as "the white spot of America," a land of sunshine and orange groves, wholesome Midwestern values and Hollywood stars, protected by the world’s most famous police force, the Dragnet-era LAPD. Behind this public image lies a hidden world of "pleasure girls" and crooked cops, ruthless newspaper tycoons, corrupt politicians, and East Coast gangsters on the make. Into this underworld came two men—one L.A.’ s most notorious gangster, the other its most famous police chief—each prepared to battle the other for the soul of the city.
