AMH-2091 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Police Brutality, Duke Energy, Institutional Racism
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Jobs start to disappear after germany gets their factories back up: urbanization//white flight middle class people (with the resources) leave the inner city least educated, least opportunities stay, economic crisis. Businesses start outsourcing to rural south because there are less unions and no standard pay. Recession more jobs in the service industry (marketing, dentistry, etc. ); education not easily accessible to blacks: chicago: high rises; subsidized so contractors spent the least amount of money to reap in most profit. Unrest high crime rate (8644$); high drug and alcohol problem: watts riot, 1965. Young, 22-year-old black man driving recklessly; police pull him over; his mother yells at officer; calls for backup and draws gun; neighbors throw rocks and bottles at backup; police start arresting other people. Sets off 6 days of rioting 34 died; 1,000 injured; 4,000 arrested; million in property damages looting; white banks and stores targeted but not white people.
