Brixton Riots
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- Created on: 14-04-19 17:57
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- Brixton Riots
- Key Events
- 1962 - Commonwealth Immigrants Act
- 1965 - Race Relations Act prevented racial discrimination
- 1971 - Immigration Act
- 1976 - Commission for racial equality set up
- 10th April 1981 - Riots started
- 18th January 1981 - New Cross House fire
- November 1981 - Scarman Report
- 1985 and 1995 - Further riots
- 1999 - Macpherson Report admitted institutional racism
- Significance
- Long Term
- First step towards racial equality
- Stephen Lawrence death 1993
- Independent Police Complaints Authority 1985
- Short Term
- Increased awareness of ethnic minority rights
- Violence controlled by police
- Long Term
- Methods
- Glass bottle bombs
- Setting cars alight
- Burning pubs
- Individual
- Lord Scarman
- "Complex political, social and economic factors" created a "disposition towards violent protest
- Lord Scarman
- Causes
- High unemployment
- Low wages
- 1000 people stopped and searched in 1 week - "sus" law
- This allowed people to be detained on suspicion of being about to commit a crime
- 50% of all people stopped by police were black
- Poor housing
- 10th April a young black man stabbed and the police were accused of not helping
- Deprived area
- 2nd generation anger
- Police brutality
- Immediate outcomes
- 300 police hurt
- 100 vehicles destroyed
- 150 buildings burnt, damaged or looted
- 82 arrests made
- £7.5 million in damages
- Key Events
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