Cultural+Event

//After undergoing police violance and segerated schools and housing, and rasing black unemployment, people banded together to form a roit. At first it was just a welcom home party for two black vietnam troops. Officers founded and arrested 82 people who were atending the party. People who were only welcomeing home their friends. 200 people gathered outside the bar as rumors spread that the police force used excessive force during the raid. People got angry. An empty bottle was thrown into the back of a police car. And A wastebasket was trown through a storefront window. The police had to call in for back up because of the increasing violence. There was looting and window smashing all down the 12th street, the street the bar was on. A congessman tried to help by climing onto a car to speak. He was told that the police could not guarantee his safety. The congessman was pelted with bottles and bricks. Fires happened. As firemen tried to put the fire out, they, too, were pelted with bottles and stones, even as businesses and homes went up in flames. The national gaurd had to be sent in to stop the violence. A 16 year old African American Boy, was the first to be shot at.

There was five nights and days of violence. In the prosses 10 white men were killed, and 33 blacks were killed. 1,189 people were injured. and over 7,200 people were arrested. Economicaly, the damange costs 32 million dollars. //