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Title The 1992 Los Angeles riots / Louise I. Gerdes, editor. [Gale electronic resource]

Edition First edition.
Publication Info. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Greenhaven Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2014.
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Description 1 online resource (184 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps.
Series Perspectives on modern world history
Gale eBooks
Perspectives on modern world history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents chapter 1. Historical background on the 1992 Los Angeles riots -- chapter 2. Controversies surrounding the 1992 Los Angeles riots -- chapter 3. Personal narratives.
Summary Offers multiple perspectives on momentous events. This volume provides a brief overview of the major factors that led to violence in South Los Angeles on April 29, 1992, when a white jury acquitted four white police officers of using excessive force in the beating of African American, Rodney King.
Subject King, Rodney, 1965-2012.
Rodney King Riots, Los Angeles, Calif., 1992.
Racism -- California -- Los Angeles.
Police misconduct -- California -- Los Angeles.
African Americans -- California -- Los Angeles.
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Race relations.
Added Author Gerdes, Louise I., 1953- editor of compilation.
Gale (Firm)
Other Form: Print version: 1992 Los Angeles riots. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Greenhaven Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2014 9780737770087 (DLC) 2013036322
ISBN 9780737770551 (electronic book)
9780737770087 (hardcover)
0737770082
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