Time Quote by James T. Patterson

“THE ESCALATING DEMANDS for rights after 1965, and especially the riots, did more than bewilder people. They also aroused significant backlash, the most vivid…

— James T. Patterson

Sociologists in the 1960s, reaching for an explanation of why cities were burning, often spoke of the problem of 'rising expectations.' It wasn't that…

— Rick Perlstein

Before the L.A. riots, I'd only heard of the original Watts riots. But I'd also seen violence like that close up, but in smaller…

— DJ Yella

“In a couple of ways, the Watts riots were the first major incident to nudge the United States toward more militaristic policing.”

— Radley Balko

“Following the July 1919 race riot in Washington, DC, Johnson investigated and offered this assessment of how and why peace was restored. “The Negroes…

— Nicholas Johnson

[Lyndon ] Johnson was responding to a black freedom movement that was tearing the country open and he did what he had to do…

— Bill Ayers

“ALL THESE CONFRONTATIONS PALED before the outbreak of urban riots in 1966 and 1967. There were thirty-eight riots in 1966, the most serious in…

— James T. Patterson

I was born in '58, so the riot in Detroit in 1967 was a memorable introduction to the issue of race and how race…

— Michael Eric Dyson

“I remember watching rioters in Panama, for example, smashing shop windows, allegedly in the name of freedom and democracy, but laughing as they did…

— Theodore Dalrymple

“Most of the blacks who took part in the riots of 1966 and 1967 apparently did not expect much in the way of tangible…

— James T. Patterson

The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that's least studied by historians…

— Tom Hayden

“It was 1970, and America was scarred by racial violence. Civil rights leaders had been gunned down in the streets, and communities across the…

— Julia Scheeres