The Algiers Motel Incident

Target entity: The Algiers Motel Incident
Context triple: [John Hersey, notableWork, The Algiers Motel Incident]

• A. Battle of Liberty Place
  The Battle of Liberty Place was an 1874 violent insurrection in New Orleans in which the white supremacist White League temporarily overthrew the Reconstruction-era Republican state government.
• B. Watts riots
  The Watts riots were a major six-day civil disturbance in 1965 in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, sparked by racial tensions and police brutality, that became a defining episode of urban unrest in the United States.
• C. Jackson State killings
  The Jackson State killings were a 1970 incident in which police opened fire on students at Jackson State College in Mississippi during anti–Vietnam War and civil rights protests, resulting in multiple deaths and injuries.
• D. 1967 Newark riots
  The 1967 Newark riots were a major urban uprising in Newark, New Jersey, sparked by racial tensions and police brutality, that became one of the most significant and violent civil disturbances of the 1960s in the United States.
• E. North Hollywood shootout
  The North Hollywood shootout was a 1997 armed confrontation in Los Angeles in which two heavily armed bank robbers engaged in a prolonged gun battle with police, prompting major changes in law enforcement weaponry and tactics.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: The Algiers Motel Incident
Target entity description: The Algiers Motel Incident is a nonfiction book by John Hersey that investigates the racially charged 1967 Detroit police killings of three Black teenagers and the brutalization of several others during the city’s uprising.

• A. Battle of Liberty Place
  The Battle of Liberty Place was an 1874 violent insurrection in New Orleans in which the white supremacist White League temporarily overthrew the Reconstruction-era Republican state government.
• B. Watts riots
  The Watts riots were a major six-day civil disturbance in 1965 in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, sparked by racial tensions and police brutality, that became a defining episode of urban unrest in the United States.
• C. Jackson State killings
  The Jackson State killings were a 1970 incident in which police opened fire on students at Jackson State College in Mississippi during anti–Vietnam War and civil rights protests, resulting in multiple deaths and injuries.
• D. 1967 Newark riots
  The 1967 Newark riots were a major urban uprising in Newark, New Jersey, sparked by racial tensions and police brutality, that became one of the most significant and violent civil disturbances of the 1960s in the United States.
• E. North Hollywood shootout
  The North Hollywood shootout was a 1997 armed confrontation in Los Angeles in which two heavily armed bank robbers engaged in a prolonged gun battle with police, prompting major changes in law enforcement weaponry and tactics.
• F. None of above. chosen