Kennedy mostly avoided civil rights issues, afraid to alienate Southern ... Detroit had seemed immune to the race riots that overwhelmed dozens of American cities — after all, the local economy ...

The split in the civil rights movement and the emergence of Black ... of Stokely Carmichael and the Black Panthers. The race riots of the mid 1960s and the Black Power salute given by two American ...

One way that black Americans showed their frustration with the continuing discrimination was through race riots. Tens of thousands of people rioted in Watts, California, in 1965 and a large number ...

Black History Month this year falls on the 60th anniversary of many crucial moments of the Civil Rights Movement that would ... to the Watts Riots foreshadowing what was to come, Axios is sharing ...