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1,465. The 1967 Newark riots were an episode of violent, armed conflict in the streets of Newark, New Jersey. Taking place over a four-day period (between July 12 and July 17, 1967), the Newark riots resulted in at least 26 deaths and hundreds more serious injuries. Serious property damage, including shattered storefronts and fires caused by ...
The summer of 1967—the "summer of love" for America's youth counterculture—was a "long hot summer" for Black urban Americans, a season of the deadliest and most widespread racial strife in US history. Racial clashes, disorders, and rebellions erupted in an estimated 164 cities in thirty-four states, bringing the nation's crisis to a boil.
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Politicians, and many whites, called the violent event a riot, a mad orgy of lawlessness. Activists, and many Blacks, called the civil unrest a rebellion, a predictable response to decades of ...
The beating and rumored death of cab driver John Smith by police, sparked the 1967 Newark riots. This event became, per capita, one of the deadliest civil disturbances of the 1960s. The long and short term causes of the Newark riots are explored in depth in the documentary film Revolution '67 and many news reports of the times. The riots in ...
No Cause For Indictment: An Autopsy of Newark (1971) Ronald Porambo was a journalist most well known for thoroughly covering the 1967 Newark riots . [1] He authored the book No Cause For Indictment: An Autopsy of Newark , which exposed the role of police in the violence that occurred during the riots, which left 26 people dead.
The Plainfield riots was one of 159 race riots that swept cities in the United States during the "Long Hot Summer of 1967". This riot was a series of racially charged violent disturbances that occurred in Plainfield , New Jersey , which mirrored the 1967 Newark riots in nearby Newark .
The cause was the feeling that African Americans were being disenfranchised. 26 people died in the Newark riots, and nearly 1,600 were arrested. The riots are often cited as a major factor in the decline of Newark and its neighboring communities, as many residents fled to the suburbs following the riots.