Urban riots (1965-1968)

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf series of civil disturbances
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs Long, hot summer of the 1960s
gptkbp:arrested tens of thousands
gptkbp:cause police brutality
economic inequality
racial tensions
segregation
gptkbp:consequence increased national attention to civil rights
Kerner Commission established
urban policy reforms
gptkbp:endDate 1968
gptkbp:followedBy 1970s urban unrest
gptkbp:governmentResponse gptkb:Kerner_Commission_Report
curfews
deployment of federal troops
gptkbp:historicalName white flight
deindustrialization
postwar urbanization
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Urban riots (1965-1968)
gptkbp:injuries thousands
gptkbp:location gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:mediaCoverage extensive national and international
gptkbp:notableCity gptkb:Baltimore
gptkb:Chicago
gptkb:Cleveland
gptkb:Detroit
gptkb:Los_Angeles
gptkb:Minneapolis
gptkb:Newark
gptkb:Washington,_D.C.
gptkb:Cambridge,_Maryland
gptkb:Plainfield,_New_Jersey
gptkbp:notableEvent gptkb:Chicago_riot_of_1966
gptkb:Cleveland_riots
gptkb:Newark_riots
gptkb:Washington,_D.C._riots_of_1968
gptkb:Detroit_riot_of_1967
gptkb:Watts_riots
gptkbp:participants gptkb:aircraft
gptkb:African_American_communities
local police
gptkbp:precededBy gptkb:Harlem_riot_of_1964
gptkbp:propertyDamage hundreds of millions of dollars
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Black_Power_movement
gptkb:Civil_Rights_Movement
gptkbp:startDate 1965
gptkbp:triggeredBy assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
gptkbp:victim hundreds
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Lyndon_B._Johnson_administration
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5