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Strongest of the riot's many causes was a sense of injustice...
...pages of the once celebrated report pinpointing the causes of America's worst race riots of the 1960s are yellowing now in public libraries and official files. The Kerner Commission's warning that "our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white-separate and unequal" has faded, too, from public consciousness. But as firemen in riot-ravaged Miami quenched the last embers of blazes that had reduced scores of business buildings to charred shells, as street crews hosed off the blood of 14 people beaten or shot to death, and 3,800 National Guardsmen withdrew from...
...always there were multiple pressures that erupted into the Miami race riot -by far the worst since 43 people were killed (mostly black rioters shot by police) in a week of looting and burning in Detroit in 1967. High unemployment, the ruinous impact of inflation, resentment at all the public help given the still rising tide of refugees inundating southern Florida from Cuba-all fed the fury of the Miami area's 233,000 blacks. Yet perhaps more clearly than in any other recent race conflict, the rage in Miami focused on police, prosecutors and the courts. And when...
...those neighborhoods but also the police who rushed into the area trying to restore order. Declared Marvin Dunn, a black psychologist at Florida International University: "I've never seen anything like it. In the 1960s people got hurt because they got in the way. But in this riot, people have set out to kill white people...
Trying to report the riot, United Press International Reporter Mike Fowler was seized by blacks, beaten and robbed of his wallet. Jeffrey Kulp, ,22, a white passenger in a car being attacked by a mob, was shot in the back and left paralyzed from the waist down. As the car fled, it struck Shanreka Perry, 11, a black girl. Her leg had to be amputated...