Ann Arbor's Tale
Neighborhood
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"The
basic concept of neighbors watching out for one
another is the theme that carries across the world...the difference is
how do we carry it out." ElAyoubi, November 14, 2007.
- Link
to audio file of oral history, Adele
ElAyoubi, Crime Prevention Specialist and Crime Analyst, City of Ann
Arbor Police
Department and recent (2002-2003) Past President, International Society
of Crime Prevention Practitioners.
- Google Earth: load the linked .kmz files into Google
Earth.
- Use maps
and aerials to track crime patterns over space and time.
- Digitized police
districts coupled with the kmz file above permit regional analysis
of crime patterns over time, as do overlays of neighborhood association
maps.
- Actors associated with
Neighborhood Watch.
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1954--Supreme
Court
rules on the landmark case Brown v. Board
of Education of Topeka, Kansas.
1955--Rosa
Parks
refuses to give up her seat on a
bus to a white passenger. Reverend Martin Luther
King, Jr., is instrumental in leading the responsive bus boycott.
1956--
1957--Martin Luther King, Charles K. Steele,
and Fred L.
Shuttlesworth
establish the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. King becomes
its first president.
1959--
1960--The Student
Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
(SNCC) is founded at Shaw University. The SNCC grows into a more
radical organization (Stokely
Carmichael)
1961--Freedom
riders" test new laws regarding interstate travel are attacked by
angry mobs along the way.
1962--James
Meredith is the first black student to enroll at the University of
Mississippi. President Kennedy sends 5,000 federal troops to
quell the ensuing violence..
1963--200,000 people join the March on
Washington Martin Luther King delivers
"I Have a
Dream" speech. Listen
to archived material and read
associated material.
1964--The 24th Amendment abolishes the poll tax that makes it
difficult for poor blacks to vote. Democratic
National
Convention President
Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act
of 1964.
1965--Malcolm
X,
black nationalist and founder of the Organization of Afro-American
Unity, shot to death. Watts race riots. President
Johnson
issues affirmative action order.
1966--Black
Panthers
founded by Huey Newton
and Bobby Seale.
1967--Major
race riots take place in
Detroit
(July 23 to July 30). Major
race riots in Newark (July
12 to16).
1968--Martin Luther King, at age 39, is shot. President
Johnson signs the Civil
Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental,
and financing of housing.
1969--
1970--
1971--The Supreme
Court, in Swann
v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, upholds busing
as a means for integration
of public schools.
1972--
1973--
1974--
1975--
1976--
1977--
1978--
1979--
1980--
1981--
1982--
1983--
1984--
1985--
1986--
1987--
1988--Overriding President
Reagan's
veto, Congress passes the Civil Rights Restoration Act.
1989--
1990--
1991--After two years of
debates,
vetoes, and threatened vetoes, President Bush
reverses himself and signs the Civil Rights Act of 1991.
1992--The first race riots in decades erupt in south-central Los
Angeles
after a jury acquits four white police officers for the videotaped
beating of African American Rodney King.
1993--
1994--
1995--
1996--
1997--
1998--
1999--
2000--
2001--World Trade Center and other
bombings,
September 11.
2002--
2003--Bakke
case, the Supreme Court upholds the University of
Michigan Law
School's policy, ruling that race can be one of many factors considered
in admissions..
2004--
2005--Rosa Parks dies at age 92.
2006--Coretta Scott King
dies of
a stroke at age 78.
2007--Emmett Till's 1955 murder case, reopened by the
Department of Justice
in 2004, is officially closed. Other cases are also closed as
perpetrators are ill or dead.
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