Understanding Urban Unrest: From Reverend King to Rodney King Book

	Preface
1	Introduction	1
2	Los Angeles '92 Was Nothing New	4
	The Court Renders a Verdict	5
	Riots Erupt	5
	Resulting Damage and Public Reactions	7
	Race and Rioting in America	10
3	Civil Rights and Uncivil Riots, 1964 Through 1966	14
	The Freedom Train of Civil Rights	15
	Harlem, 1964	17
	Johnson Secures a Mandate	18
	Watts, 1965	19
	A Critical Turning Point	21
	The Centerpiece: Demonstration Cities	24
	From Fanfare to Fading Flower in the 89th Congress	26
	An Attempt to Revive	28
	Responding to the Riots	32
	The House Subcommittee Watershed	34
	Muskie Accepts at Last	36
4	Reverend King, the Urban Poor, and an Epidemic of Rioting, 1966	40
	Chicago	41
	Cleveland	42
	The Muskie Substitute Bill Emerges	44
	Endorsed by the Senate Subcommittee	46
	Deliberations on the Senate Floor	48
	Back in the House	50
	Money and Racial Animosity on the House Floor	52
	In Sight of the Finish Line	56
5	Riot-Driven Public Policy, 1966 Through 1968	59
	Urban Violence and New Ways of Knowing	60
	The Model Cities Legislation	61
	Place-Based Policy	64
	To Improve the Quality of Life, to Halt the Riots	65
	Tumultuous Times	68
	Newark and Detroit, 1967	71
	The Kerner Commission	73
	Civil Rights Act of 1968	77
	Federal Response to Urban Poverty and Mob Violence, 1960s Style	79
6	Model Cities Program Plays Out, 1969 Through 1975	86
	Model Cities Attacked, Then Terminated	88
	Model Cities in Retrospect - How Did It Perform?	90
	Urban Conditions Index	96
	Urban Decline Index	97
	The Mystery of Model Cities	100
7	From Reverend King to Rodney King	102
	Miami, 1980	104
	Miami, 1989	105
	The Kerner Commission Remembered	107
	Los Angeles, 1992, and the Presidential Candidates	109
8	Responding to Urban Interracial Mob Violence in the 1990s	112
	The Urban Aid Bill in the House, 1992	113
	The Urban Aid Bill in the Senate	121
	The Enterprise Zones Legislation in the House	126
	The Enterprise Zones Bill in the Senate	127
	Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities Bill	133
	Federal Response to Urban Poverty and Mob Violence, 1990s Style	137
9	Urban Poverty, Interracial Mob Violence, and Federal Reaction: The Problem and Political Contexts	145
	The Problem Context	146
	The Political Context	155
10	Urban Poverty, Interracial Mob Violence, and Federal Reaction: The Policy Context	180
	Model Cities and Urban EZECs: A Comparison	183
	Program Implementation and Bureaucratic Transformations	186
	Urban Policy and the People-Versus-Place Debate	191
	People-Based Approaches: Embedded Urban Policy and Mobility Strategies	195
	Congress, the Urban Poor, and Mob Violence	202
	Urban Mob Violence in the Future	204
	References	207
	Index	217
	About the Author	228