Black Freedom Struggle in the United States:

Police Brutality

Congressional Hearings: Hearings before the Subcom on Civil and Constitutional Rights to review concerns about the extent of police misconduct and excessive violence, in view of the videotaped Mar. 3, 1991 severe beating of black motorist Rodney King by Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers after King’s forced halt for traffic offenses. Also examines the prevalence of racially motivated police brutality against minority groups., 1991

State of Urban America

Congressional Hearings: Hearing to assess urban area economic conditions and adequacy of Federal aid to cities in view of Apr. 1992 riots in Los Angeles, Calif., and to examine urban economic deterioration, including increased poverty and unemployment, in the 20 years following National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Commission) 1968 report predicting increased social inequalities., 1993

Correspondence File, Ha, 1979-1981

Jimmy Carter Library file folder: United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare Patricia Roberts Harris correspondence with Jimmy Carter on race riots and aftermath in Miami, Florida, 1980

Disorders: Analyses (1)

Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library Files: Papers, reports, and other analyses of urban riots, August 4-December 28, 1967, 1967-1968

Control–Police Department

Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library Files: Role of police during public demonstrations and riots, August 25, 1966-January 12, 1968, 1966-1968

General, 1967-1969

Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library Files: Report of National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence and Critique of Governor’s Commission on the Los Angeles Riot, 1967-1969, 1967-1969

California State Advisory Committee

National Archive Records: California State Advisory Committee activities focusing on the 1965 Watts Riot and McCone Commission report, 1964-1968, 1964-1968

California (ST 5), 1965-1967

Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library Files: California civil rights issues including Watts Riot, 1965, President’s Task Force on the Los Angeles Riots, employment issues, 1965-1967, 1965-1967

Detroit Riot [1943].

National Archive Records: Detroit Riot and the effect on war production, 1943, 1943