11 Big Accomplishments Black Activists Achieved In 2015
3. Mizzou student protests lead to university president's resignation.
4. Campus racism protests forced schools to reckon with their racial history.
7. Black students at the University of California prompted the school to pull out $30 million from prison investments.
9. Activists launched Campaign Zero to help combat police violence.
11. Activists launched the Police Union Contract Project to help ‘check the police.’
5 milestone accomplishments from the year in Black Lives Matter
They won a lawsuit against Baton Rouge police.
They got a ticket to the White House.
Are Riots Effective? 9 Times Violent Demonstration Changed American Politics
2. The Boston Tea Party - 1773 (this one was a really big deal!)
5. The Detroit Riots - 1967
6. The Stonewall Riots - 1969
7. The Kent State Riots - 1970
8. The Mount Pleasant Riots - 1991
And who could forget:
The Storming of the Bastille - 1789.
(A few years later the French monarchy was abolished, and Louis and Marie-Antoinette were condemned for treason.)
Thank you for posting this information. I am sure it took a lot of time to dig that up.
Once again, for me anyway, this isn't a black and white issue. These shootings of unarmed people are imo a travesty of justice.
I guess I wasn't clear enough in my previous post. What i meant for my question to be, is, when it comes to police shootings of unarmed people, what have people done to pass legislation through congress that would address cops being punished for their mistakes when they shoot unarmed people?
In your posts above, I see a few.
#11
Articles 9 and 11 I think are great steps IMO.
I may be wrong, but I don't think the rest apply in this situation.
The riots.
You are right.The Boston Tea Party was a big deal, however that big deal didn't last very long. Many people thing the protest was because of taxes, but in reality, it was a protest of taxation without representation.
Congress taxes tea for about 100 years after that protest, and today we are constantly taxed without representation.
The Detroit Riot, and the Stonewall Riot and The Kent State Riot (I say "Massacre") were started when laws were broken during lots of alcohol consumption.
The Detroit Riot started when the cops busted an unlicensed club. after lots of looting,and buildings burned, and people died, yes there were a few changes, (more fair housing etc.) the damage done far outweighed the gain.
Source Wikipedia:
The heaviest casualty, however, was the city. Detroit's losses went a hell of a lot deeper than the immediate toll of lives and buildings. The riot put Detroit on the fast track to economic desolation, mugging the city and making off with incalculable value in jobs, earnings taxes, corporate taxes, retail dollars, sales taxes, mortgages, interest, property taxes, development dollars, investment dollars, tourism dollars, and plain damn money. The money was carried out in the pockets of the businesses and the white people who fled as fast as they could. The white exodus from Detroit had been prodigiously steady prior to the riot, totaling twenty-two thousand in 1966, but afterwards it was frantic. In 1967, with less than half the year remaining after the summer explosion—the outward population migration reached sixty-seven thousand. In 1968 the figure hit eighty-thousand, followed by forty-six thousand in 1969.[SUP]
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Before the ghetto riot of 1967, Detroit's black population had the highest rate of home-ownership of any black urban population in the country, and their unemployment rate was just 3.4 percent. It was not despair that fueled the riot. It was the riot which marked the beginning of the decline of Detroit to its current state of despair. Detroit's population today is only half of what it once was, and its most productive people have been the ones who fled.[SUP]
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