The Chicago Project

ONE OF THE REASONS I THINK THE RIOTS HAPPENED IS BECAUSE OF POLICE BRULTALITY. THE TAC SQUAD ROAMED THE STREETS SEARCHING FOR BARS TO RAID AND PROSTITUTES TO ARREST. IN 1967 POLICE SEVERELY BEATED  A PROSTITUTE BY THE NAME OF BARBARA JACKSON.AND ANOTHER REASON IS POOR HOUSING. DETROIT HAD A LONG HISTROY OF HOUSING DISCRIMINATION STRETCHING BACK TO THE TURN OF THE CENTURY WHEN BLACK IMIGRANTS FIRST ARRIVED IN THE CITY AND MIDDLE-CLASS AFRICAN AMERICANS SOUGHT TO INTERGRATE PREDOMINANTLY WHITE NEIGHBORHOODS.AND PEOPLE BULIT A SIX FOOT HIGH,ONE FOOT WIDE CONCRETE WALL ALONG EIGHT MILE ROAD TO SEPARATE THEMSELVES FROM POTENTIAL BLACK NEIGHBORS.

slavery was common practice among american presidents and president lincoln was opposed to freeing the slaves.befor the civil war a president could not get elected unless they supported slavery.