FOUR MAIN CAUSES OF RACIAL VIOLENCE

John Hersey, The Algiers Hotel Incident, with a new introduction by Thomas J. Sugrue (Baltimore & London: Johns Hopkins U. Press, 1968, 1988):

There are four main causes of racial violence: unequal justice, unequal employment opportunities, unequal housing, unequal education. This book, to put it in perspective, deals only with the first. I believe that is the one that should be attacked first, because it is at the cutting edge of the deeper anger of those without whom there would be no summer rebellions, the young black males; and because, to be practical about it, its remedy would cost not a cent. The remedy is in the minds of  of men. Unequal justice is experienced by the black populace at two points; what happens with the cop in the street, and what happens with the prosecutor and lawyer and judge in court.

Id. at 37.