The long, hot summer of 1967 : urban rebellion in America /
Shattering glass, stores looted and torched, the flare of Molotov cocktails and the crack of gunfire. These were the sights and sounds that announced the arrival of another long, hot summer. Beginning in Harlem in 1964, the ghetto revolt surged through Watts and Hough in successive years before cres...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | Shattering glass, stores looted and torched, the flare of Molotov cocktails and the crack of gunfire. These were the sights and sounds that announced the arrival of another long, hot summer. Beginning in Harlem in 1964, the ghetto revolt surged through Watts and Hough in successive years before cresting in 1967 in Newark, Detroit and scores of other cities across the United States. It plunged Lyndon Johnson's White House into crisis. Liberals called for an expansion of his Great Society reforms to eradicate ghetto poverty and end racial inequality. Conservatives demanded a police crackdown. Meanwhile, Black power spokesmen Stokely Carmichael and H. Rap Brown condoned the revolt and defined the demands of the ghetto as nothing short of revolution. The nation would never be the same again. The Long, Hot Summer of 1967 sets these explosive events in context and explains how they shaped the course of modern American history. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 227 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781137269621 (hardback : alkaline paper) 1137269626 (hardback : alkaline paper) |