Word: racial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...arson. Gangs in Des Moines and Cedar Rapids, Iowa, lobbed rocks and vitriol at Whitey. In West Fresno, Calif., Negro rioters set fire to a lumberyard, spent three nights bombarding the community with rocks and Molotov cocktails. Durham, N.C., Erie, Pa., and Nyack, N.Y., were the scenes of racial eruptions...
...United States Congress has shown amazing insensitivity and lack of rational behavior in its response to the current racial violence in the cities. It has not acted to alleviate the conditions which have made such outbreaks possible; it has not set priorities for government spending; it has not introduced curative or preventive emergency legislation. Instead, it is hastily pushing anti-riot legislation that can only be characterized as irrelevant, futile, and more irritating than beneficial...
...both races. Police in Erie, Pa., broke up a sidewalk crap game among Negro youths-and the result was two days of stonings and stickwork. Officials in Cincinnati, Tampa and Buffalo, where ghetto dwellers rampaged earlier this summer, nervously sought ways to avert fresh flare-ups. Racial disturbances also occurred in Plainfield, N.J., Laurel, Md., Kansas City, Mo., and Miami...
...appetite for destruction and loot. Soon after midnight on the second night of rioting, the police were finally given the word: "Use your weapons." As could have been expected, police guns proved much more lethal than those in the hands of Negro rioters. Of those dead by racial violence in Newark last week, only two were white. Plainclothes Patrolman Frederick Toto, 34, a police hero cited for saving a drowning child in 1964, was shot through the chest by a sniper and died two hours later, despite heart surgery. A fireman was later shot in the back and killed. Among...
...Until last week, Spina could claim the ultimate satisfaction in police work: without undue harshness or permissiveness, merely by enforcing the law as it is written, his cops had kept the peace in a potentially turbulent city. Even when the Harlem riots of 1964 set off secondary explosions of racial strife in the neighboring cities of Jersey City, Paterson and Elizabeth, Newark managed to keep its cool...