He remembers watching race riots on TV and escaping from Cuba at the age of 6.
Half of those interviewed were black, but they did not consider the unrest to be "race riots".
The verdicts from the all-white jury in Simi Valley incited one of the worst race riots in U.S. history.
When voters cut into its majority in 1969, widespread race riots ensued.
In the postal district of Liverpool 8, south of the city centre, the constituency includes Toxteth, the scene of race riots in 1981.
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The single was released in 1968, a year in which America saw curfews as race riots spread from Newark and Detroit to over 100 cities.
The far-right British National Party stunned political observers when it took more than 11, 000 votes across the two Oldham constituencies, the scene of recent race riots.
Or take reparations, not for slavery, but for the loss of businesses and of lives suffered by African-Americans in the 1921 race riots in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
There were race riots in the late 1950s and in the 1960s the area became known as the stamping ground of Peter Rachman, a notorious slum landlord.
In the past, rumours alone could provoke race riots in a city where a third of people are non-white, compared with 12.5% in England as a whole.
Her crime: In a speech ahead of the November polls, she allegedly said that UMNO was the "source" of the May 1969 race riots that rocked Malaysia.
The policy was introduced after race riots in 1969 to boost the position of the Malays, who felt the Indian and Chinese minorities in the country were more prosperous.
During last summer's race riots in the northern cities and towns of Oldham, Burnley, Bradford and Leeds, he was shocked by the degree of alienation felt by the ethnic communities.
Mr Fagan predicts boycotts, shareholder lawsuits, even race riots.
From 1965-1967 an unprecedented number of race riots broke out in 125 American cities, resulting in 34 deaths in the Watts area of Los Angeles, 40 in Detroit, and 26 in Newark.
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In the aftermath of race riots in Detroit and Los Angeles in the 1960s and later he gave voice to radical pleas for jobs, education, compassion in the calm, unexcitable tones of a bureaucrat.
Written at the time of the traumatic 1969 race riots between Malays and Chinese, the slim volume was promptly banned and remained that way until he became premier and un-banned it in 1981.
It will also be important to see whether any kind of anti-immigrant backlash sets in, similar to what Democrats saw against civil rights in 1966 following the race riots in Watts and other cities.
At once a Lalaland filled with dreamers, Los Angeles has also been scene to some of the worst race riots in American history: a paradoxical place that spawned both Charlie Chaplin and Gangsta Rap.
If people vote for the opposition Democratic Action Party, which draws its support from Malaysia's Chinese minority (30% of the population), it could lead to a revival of the race riots that erupted in 1969.
The student takeovers of university buildings and the violent race riots of that era caused administrators to fear for campus security, and they sought to avoid such disturbances by admitting (and, implicitly, co-opting) more black students.
These two factors segregation and unemployment helped to produce ugly race riots in several northern cities last summer, which were echoed last week when a mob of Asian youths in Bradford stoned a vicar and tried to torch his church.
In more recent times, the first major race riots in the post-civil rights era erupted in Miami over a series of shootings of black men at the hands of white police officers who were all acquitted in the slayings.
The silent march was the idea of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's president, Benjamin Todd Jealous, who aimed to invoke a quiet protest down Fifth Avenue in 1917 that was meant to draw attention to race riots in East St.
In Britain , dispute arose over urgings by David Blunkett, the home secretary, that immigrants should do more to adapt to British ways, and over a report on some race riots earlier this year, which lamented that brown and white communities live almost entirely apart.
Race-tinged riots in 2001 and bombings in London on July 7th this year seemed to underline that danger, which may explain why Mr Phillips's words were welcomed both by Labour and by the opposition Conservatives.
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