Mayor Daley deployed thousands of police officers to restrain the protesters.
When the Democratic National Convention met in Chicago in 1968, thousands of protesters staged demonstrations against the US involvement in the Vietnam War. Chicago's mayor, Richard Daley, sent out 12,000 local police officers against the protesters and called in thousands more state and federal officers. The situation became a major riot between protesters and police that came to be known as "The Battle of Michigan Avenue."
<span>He promised in the election that he would and it was needed since the country was in a depression and people were out of work. He had to get the economy stabilized and people working or getting some forms of help.</span>
Islam entered the African continent from North African countries such as Morocco and Egypt, and was one of the first regions to be conquered by the early Arab-Islamic expansion (7th and 8th centuries). From the tenth to the sixteenth centuries, Muslim merchants contributed to the emergence of important kingdoms in West Africa, which flourished thanks to the caravan trade that crossed the Sahara into contact with the steppes and savannas of West Sudan and central Africa.
