Race Relations Flashcards
What was the Civil Rights Movement focused on? (2)
Economic inequality
Failure to tackle de facto segregation
What were the different approaches AA’s took when tackling race relations? (5)
Legal system
Nonviolence protest
Armed resistance
Black power
Black panthers
What happened between 1964- 1968? (3)
Uprisings/riots every summer
‘Long,hot summer’ of 1967
Post-MLK assassination
What did the Kerner Commission report? (3)
White society to blame
Massive spending recommended on the poorest
Ignored and scorned
What were the two types of cocaine?
Powder
Crack
What were the associations with both of these types of cocaine?
Powder snorted and a white middle class drug
Crack smoked and a poor AA drug taken in inner-cities
What did the Comprehensive Crime Control Act 1984 do? (4)
Reinstates federal death penalty
Obliterates federal parole system
Strengthens judge’s ability to hold defendants indefinitely
Mandatory minimums introduced
What was the effect of the CCC Act on prison sentences?
Average prison sentence jumps from 46 months to 61 months
What did the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 do?
Mandatory minimum sentences of 5 years no parole for:
100g of heroin
500g of powder cocaine
5g of crack cocaine
What were the racial effects of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986? (2)
Disproportionate sentencing for black and Hispanic Americans
Parenti- “apartheid sentencing”
Who were the black Americans that came through to the mainstream in the 1980s? (4)
Oprah
Michael Jackson
Michael Jordan
Bill Cosby
What was the MTV racial barrier?
The exclusion of black acts from the TV show which was eventually broken by Michael Jackson even though he wasn’t initially put on.
What was the name of the AA that was beaten by 4 LAPD officers?
Rodney King
What happened in the riots that followed the beating of Rodney King? (3)
52 dies
2500 injured
500 million dollars of property damage
What was Rodney King’s famous quote during the riots about the beating of himself?
“Can’t we all just get along?”
