The 1992 LA Riots
Analysing the Rodney King verdict and the explosive response in Los Angeles as a culmination of decades of tension.
Key Questions
- 1How did the Rodney King verdict expose the limitations of the post-civil rights legal system?
- 2To what extent were the 1992 riots different from the 1960s uprisings?
- 3What does the 1992 crisis tell us about the state of race relations at the end of the century?
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