Norman rosenbaum biography

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    Crown Heights riot

    1991 racial and antisemitic riot in Brooklyn, New York City

    Crown Heights riot

    Location of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, in New York City.

    DateAugust 19–21, 1991
    Location

    Crown Heights, Brooklyn

    Caused byChabad motorcade collides with Guyanese children, killing one
    MethodsRioting, looting, assault, arson, protests, property damage, murder
    Resulted in
    Death(s)2
    Injuries152 police officers
    38 civilians
    Arrested129

    The Crown Heights riot was a race riot that took place from August 19 to August 21, 1991, in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, New York City. Black residents attacked Orthodox Jewish residents, damaged their homes, and looted businesses. The riots began on August 19, 1991, after two 7 year-old children of Guyanese immigrants were unintentionally struck bygd a driver running a red light[1][2] while following the bilkorteg of RebbeMenachem Mendel Schneerson, the leader of Chabad, a

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    A Jewish youth is killed by a mob in Crown Heights, Brooklyn

    Yankel Rosenbaum, a visiting student from Australia, is stabbed by a mob in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, New York. The crowd, consisting of young Black men, had been intent on seeking revenge for the death of seven-year-old Gavin Cato, who had been struck by a car driven by a Hasidic Jew three hours earlier. Rosenbaum died the next day.

    Following the attack on Rosenbaum that led to his death, violence continued for four days in Crown Heights, while many complained that the response by police and Mayor David Dinkins was inadequate.

    In October, 16-year-old Lemrick Nelson was charged with the murder of Rosenbaum but was acquitted after a racially charged trial the following year. But the case did not end there. Due in part to lobbying by the victim’s brother, Norman Rosenbaum, the federal government charged Nelson with violating Rosenbaum’s civil rights in 1994. In the meantime, a state report criticized Mayor

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    Fires in the Mirror

    ANNA DEAVERE SMITH
    1992

    INTRODUCTION
    AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
    PLOT SUMMARY
    CHARACTERS
    THEMES
    STYLE
    HISTORICAL CONTEXT
    CRITICAL OVERVIEW
    CRITICISM
    SOURCES
    FURTHER READING

    INTRODUCTION

    In 1991, in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, New York, a member of the Lubavitch branch of Hasidic Judaism lost control of his car, jumped the curb, and killed a seven-year-old black child. This incident and the circumstances surrounding it led to a period of extremely high tension between the black community and the Jewish community in Crown Heights, including riots and the murder of the Lubavitcher Jew, Yankel Rosenbaum. As these events were unfolding, Anna Deavere Smith began a series of interviews with many of those involved in the conflict as well as those who were able to make key insights into its nature, its causes, and its results. In her play Fires in the Mirror, first produced in New York City in 1992, Smith distills these interviews into monologues by twenty-six diffe