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Title: The Labor Market Effects of the 1960s Riots

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Publication Year: 2003

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Abstract: Although the United States has experienced race-related civil disturbances throughout its history, those that occurred in the 1960s were unprecedented in their frequency and scope. Between 1964 and 1971, hundreds of riots erupted in American cities, resulting in large numbers of injuries, deaths, and arrests, as well as in considerable property damage that was concentrated in predominantly black neighborhoods. Law enforcement authorities took extraordinary measures to end the riots, sometimes including the mobilization of National Guard units. In retrospect, the riots marked a turning point in American racial politics, as the carefully orchestrated demonstrations of the early Civil Rights Movement gave way to violent, chaotic civil disturbances. . .

Url: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.197.7833&rep=rep1&type=pdf

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Authors: Collins, William, J.; Margo, Robert, A.

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Publication Number: 03-W24

Institution: Vanderbilt University

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Publisher Location: Nashville

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Crime and Deviance, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other

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