 The "Black Saturday" riot was the beginning of a crisis of legitimacy in Egypt's institutions, including the monarchy, as the riot had starkly shown that most Egyptians did not feel their political system represented them.The American historian Joel Gordon wrote that "Black Saturday" forced "...Egypt's political leaders to confront the severity of the crisis which the country faced".For the next six months, Farouk frequently shuffled prime ministers in an attempt to quell widespread demands for reform.