... resources with brutal violence then ask why we are so violent. Bird an interviewee in the film "Crips and Bloods explained "Growing up in Los Angeles he wanted to be a Boy Scout, but he could not because he was black" (2008). The Boy Scouts who stood for what America ... against society. Not only did America keep blacks out of their clubs but also out of white neighborhoods ,this was done with violence and fear by the Los Angeles Police Department. Bird tells the story "I was in the wrong neighborhood just walking and the policed stopped me, asked what I was doing in this ... white neig...

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... video of police brutality. The African-American community would soon have unalienable proof of the injustice perpetually served to them. "Holliday focused his camcorder lens on the scene outside his Los Angeles apartment" (Brewster & Jennings 537). The action of an anonymous man ignited a fire that raged in the hearts of the African American citizens. Stacy Koon along with three other fellow ... King showing "undeniable proof of a serious crime and . . . a call to examine police behavior nationwide" (Brewster & Jennings 537). People on the streets knew that racial profiling existed amon...

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... 117 miles per hour. King ignored the flashing lights and ran a red light. Almost causing an accident, King finally came to a stop. Within seconds Los Angeles police cars and a helicopter arrived at the scene. The occupants of the vehicle were ordered to lie down on the ground. King's two friends complied. ... the asphalt. King was taken to the hospital and could not recall anything after his first blow. On March 4, Holliday took his film to a Los Angeles TV station. "Television used tape like wallpaper" said CNN vice president Ed Turner. Prosecutorial wheels began to turn, and not for Ro...

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... while black stop is, according to House Representative John Conyers Jr., "an experience that virtually every African-American male has been subjected to." Even African-American actors, athletes, business professionals, and Congressmen, are not immune. In Christopher Darden's book, In Contempt, the former Simpson prosecuting attorney accounted his own personal experiences with the Los Angeles Police Department. While driving his Mercedes in Southern ... the officer eventually realizes that the black man in the Mercedes is an Assistant District Attorney for the city of Los Angeles. Darden...

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... became the first black conductor to lead a major symphony orchestra in a home-based, regular subscription concert. Lewis was born about the time Dixon graduated High School, October 16, 1932 in Los Angeles. Despite the age difference, Lewis practically matched Dixon with his impact on the music world. Lewis emerged as a trailblazer for black musicians, when at the age of sixteen he auditioned ... successfully for a double bass position in the Los Angeles Philharmonic. He became the youngest and first black musician to join the ranks of such a prestigious group. Furthermore, he went on t...

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... Liberty" and "Segregation is Dead." By late June some kind of public place in over one hundred and fifty different cities across America had been desegregated. John F. Kennedy was never able to gain enough support to pass a civil rights bill during his short time in office, but Lyndon Johnson drawing on the ... When the crowd reached the capital the governor reneged and blandly told them "the capitol is closed today." By August of 1965 riots began to erupt in Los Angeles. At the end of one week there were 27 dead, almost 600 injured, 1,700 arrested, and over $100 million dollars worth of ...

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... refused to be controlled, humiliated, and made afraid by other laws were lynched,+ or hung by White mobs. In 1896 the Supreme Court decided that racial segregation was legal. Justice John Harlan disagreed. He believed that segregation would lead to ideas of racial inferiority. The case of Plessy vs. Ferguson was the basis for the supreme court decision. Overturning it became ... committed against them by fighting back. "Burn, Baby, Burn" became the battle cry for many who no longer had faith in society as they knew it. Watts, a Black section of Los Angeles, was one of many set on fire a...

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... a report in 1992. Two cars, one filled with young black men, the other with young white men, navigated the same route, in the same car, at the same speed through Los Angeles streets on successive nights. The car filled with young black men was stopped by the police several times; the white group was not stopped once, despite observing police cars in ... discrepancy with the basic aims of law. From 1988 to 1994, hundreds of blacks and Hispanics "but no whites" were prosecuted by the United States Attorney's office with jurisdiction over Los Angeles County and six surrounding counties.16 ...

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... Party. Angela Davis was so intrigued by the political work of the Alexanders"; she moved to Los Angeles to join the Alexanders" in their work and joined the Communist Party in 1968. While in Los Angeles, Davis was hired to teach philosophy at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), in 1969. Almost immediately, Davis's courses became very popular. However, due to her involvement with ... ...

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... Party. Angela Davis was so intrigued by the political work of the Alexanders"; she moved to Los Angeles to join the Alexanders" in their work and joined the Communist Party in 1968. While in Los Angeles, Davis was hired to teach philosophy at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), in 1969. Almost immediately, Davis's courses became very popular. However, due to her involvement with ... ...

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... . He associated the West to Dean. However once Sal reached the West his attitude towards the West began to slowly change. When Sal reached Los Angeles he had reached his threshold. He was very lonely and tired of Los Angeles. He now saw the East as warm, inviting, and abundant with people. Sal saw the East as a holy place, where little sin was committed ... of the women in On The Road that encounters some problems with men. Terry is an attractive Mexican girl with whom Sal spends fifteen days with when he is in Los Angeles. Terry comes from a family of grape gatherers. Her family is from...

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... gender illegal . In 1995 the Congressional Research Service turned up 160 laws and regulations one third of which are still enforced laws setting numerical goals and quotas. In 1994 the Los Angeles Fire Department refused five thousand white men from taking their qualifying test because the department had not yet met its minority and gender hiring goals . If a house or a building is ... on fire, the firefighters" gender or ethnic background should not play a role in comparison with their ability to save people's lives. The Los Angeles Fire Department is going to be short of able firefig...

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... his academic and home problems. A natural athlete, Robinson played football, basketball, baseball, and track and field at Pasadena Community College. He then went on to UCLA, (University of California, Los Taylor, 2 Angeles), where he again excelled in football, basketball, baseball and track. After college, he was drafted in the Army and served in World War II. Upon his return, he played professional ... basketball for the Los Angeles Red Devils for a year. He then attended a try out with the Kansas City Monarchs, a baseball team in the Negro Leagues, and quickly signed a contract to p...

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... the world of sports anymore, and no more action need be taken to advance racial equality; it exists already. On April 15, 1947 Jackie Robinson played his first game as a Los Angeles Dodger. This would not have been a surprise if he was a white man with the same talent as he had.("Race" 1) The problem was that he was black. Robinson became the ... examined, this claim is not a true one in the sports world. In 1997, baseball celebrated its fifty year anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier. At that time, the Los Angeles Dodgers (Robinson's long time team) only had one bl...

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... 50 people had been killed, thousands were arrested, and there was a shocking bill of one billion dollars in property damage (Waller, 45). As a result of this rebellion, the Mayor of Los Angeles imposed a curfew for the city, and schools and businesses closed. Many people were fearful of what had happened, as this was an unusual event of the 1990s, and people were ... showed the "vast differences in how whites and blacks perceived each other" (Newsfile). Even after the riot, tensions existed for quite some time; "six months later, 82 percent of the Los Angeles population said the tension...

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... participate in the school's literary club, which he was the advisor of Baldwin was enchanted by Cullen's warmth (Smith 236). "According to Boyd, although Baldwin rarely spoke or wrote about his relationship with Cullen, the poet was one of the early influences in Baldwin life, preparing him to ... both groups' access to a new current of life, to evolving culture" (223). In "Baldwin's Harlem: A Biography of James Baldwin," Herb Boyd shares Baldwin's love of black people, writing, Paris and pure curiosity about life. He does not attempt to expand on earlier biographical accounts but instead...

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... Wallace's attempt to keep universities segragated put a spotlight on the southern states, but failed to showe the racism deeply embeded throughout the entire country. Today the riots in Cinncinati and Los Angeles have taken center stage in todays civil rights activists. The thirteenth through fifthteenth amendments weren't enough to ensure racial equality. Many states found ways to supress the Negro communities.Southern ... recieved by his appeals to improve soicial and civil rights. Something drastic was needed to be done to gain the attention and public favor. A white writer for the M...

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... , Knesal stated, the group had planned additional attacks on blacks and Jews. In California COTC members Geremy von Rineman and Jill Scarborough were arrested in a plot to bomb Los Angeles' largest black church. 1995 John McLaughlin, a close friend of Matt Hale, is sentenced to 2- ½ years probation after he is convicted of stockpiling weapons that were in the words of the COTC meant for ... ...

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... and closer to painful truths about America's destructiveness- (Elderkin). People at this time were consistently brutal in their comments towards blacks. The following season Robinson got moved up to the Los Angeles Dodgers professional team only five days before their first game (Kahn 101). On April 15, 1947, Robinson became the first black player to play Major League Baseball (104). Robinson's new ... had it made-, was a famous quote from Robinson (234). At an old age Robinson had endured a lot of pain (236). Many of Robinson's friends and family members had died including, John F. Ken...

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... States of America's notes, Lincoln allowed slaves to take part in the war: "la Unión había reclutado a dos millones de hombres, entre los que se encontraban unos 186.000 negros" (González de la Aleja 76). Due to that fact, several black men joined the ... date from before the American Civil War, when there also were attempts to reach freedom, such as the newspaper The Libertator (1831-1865), and the John Brown's attack to an arsenal in Harpers Ferry in 1859. In the same way, several writers as Harriet Beecher Stowe and Harriet Jacobs wrote about ... as citizens yet. In November, 1865 ...

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... Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. . Today it is still a racial battle that seems as though it will never end. For example, Rodney King was excessively and unnecessarily brutally beaten by Los Angeles Police Officers. He was hospitalized, and the officers were arrested but two were later acquitted. This is just one incident of modern racism. February 26, 2012, George Zimmerman shot an ... ...

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... play a bigger role in Obama's declining pole numbers than, "non-black voters (being) simply not willing to grant him any margin of error. " She talked about a rally she attended in Los Angeles where the campaigning Obama spoke about the injustices facing black men, too many black men being in prison, etc with his business shirt sleeves rolled up like he was ready ... ...

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... are more likely to stay in prison than a white man who was arrested for the same reason. Following the Rodney King incident, the report of the Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department (also called the Christopher Commission) (1991) found that there was excessive use of force by LAPD officers and that this was compounded by racism and bias. There has ... ...

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... to play baseball at Pasadena Junior College. Robinson was an amazing player. After finishing his junior college career, Robinson was offered a scholarship to play for the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA). From there, Robinson went on to play in the Negro Leagues. Robinson played with players such as Josh Gibson, Sam Bankhead, and Satchel Paige. Robinson stood head and shoulders ... ...

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... ensure that his tomorrow would be bright. The other two wanted the dream, but did not know how they were going to it. According to Angela Alexander, an attorney in Los Angeles, "the black community keeps itself down in a way. We know that most of the vices used to keep us down are supplied by whites, but African Americans as a whole will ... ...

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