But Delmas argues that uncivil disobedience can sometimes be not only permissible but required in the effort to resist injustice. Anna Arnold Hedgeman played a key role in over half a century of social justice initiatives. Hedgeman ought to be a household name, but until now has received only a fraction of the attention of activists like A. The book also discusses the growing fears produced by the outbreaks of serious riots in many cities during the mids.
Walker analyzes the reasons for the riots and the lessons that authorities drew from them. He also provides an overview of the struggle that the city faced in recovering from the effects of the disorders. In the spring and summer of , they put their lives on the line, riding buses through the American South to challenge segregation in interstate transport.
Their story is one of the most celebrated episodes of the civil rights movement, yet a full-length history has never been written until now. In these pages, acclaimed historian Raymond Arsenault provides an account of six pivotal months that jolted the consciousness of America. Feature image created by OUP.
OUP Academic. Subscribe to the OUPblog via email: Our Privacy Policy sets out how Oxford University Press handles your personal information, and your rights to object to your personal information being used for marketing to you or being processed as part of our business activities. Recent Comments. Faustino Correia 9 th June As well as surveys of those who took part in the disorder, the research will include interviews with residents, police and the judiciary, and an advanced analysis of more than 2.
The project, announced on the eve of the one-month anniversary of the outbreak of trouble in Tottenham , north London, will seek to better understand why riots then spread to other parts of the capital and cities across England. Four consecutive nights of looting and arson in August left five people dead and more than 2, suspects arrested.
Police anticipate that investigations to identify perpetrators of the disorder will last several years. Reading the Riots is modelled on an acclaimed survey conducted in the aftermath of the Detroit riots in The findings of that study, the result of a groundbreaking collaboration between the Detroit Free Press newspaper and Michigan's Institute for Social Research, challenged prevailing assumptions about the cause of the unrest.
Prof Phil Meyer, who co-ordinated the Detroit study more than four decades ago, will advise the research into the English riots. The LSE's involvement will be led by Prof Tim Newburn, head of the university's social policy department, which has the highest possible research rating in the UK.
Newburn, a former president of the British Society of Criminology and an advisor to the Metropolitan police and Home Office, said: "There is an urgent need for some rigorous social research which will look, without prejudice, at the causes and the consequences of the recent riots. Previous incidents of serious civil disorder in England, such as the Oldham riots in and the Brixton riots in , led to government-commissioned inquiries and reviews.
Lord Scarman's public inquiry into the Brixton disturbances, which were followed by further rioting in Toxteth, Liverpool, in the same year, proved a watershed moment for social policy, warning that urgent action was required to tackle racial disadvantage and distrust in the police.
This week, the Guardian and LSE are publishing the findings of the project's second phase, based on more than interviews with a broader cross-section of people affected by the riots, including police officers deployed in London, Birmingham, Manchester, Salford and Liverpool. They ranged from constables who found themselves deployed on the frontline to senior officers up to and including the rank of chief constable.
Almost all interviews were facilitated by police forces, who either selected candidates for interview or offered their staff an opportunity to participate in the study. All interviewees were granted the option of anonymity, and encouraged to speak freely about their experiences. The Metropolitan police required a press officer to be present during interviews.
Separately, we interviewed 40 victims of the riots, some of whom had lost their businesses or seen their homes burned down, and 25 so-called vigilantes who, at the height of the disorder and amid concern that police were losing control, took to the streets to defend their neighbourhoods.
The second phase of Reading the Riots, sponsored exclusively by OSF, also looks at other aspects of the criminal justice response, interviewing 50 lawyers who defended rioters and 25 Crown Prosecution Service lawyers, including the director of public prosecutions, Keir Starmer.
Many of the richest insights have come from interviews with ordinary people who provided personal accounts of the most intense bouts of civil unrest in modern English history. The second phase addresses the question of why some English cities that might have been expected to experience serious disorder saw only minor outbreaks of violence.
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