Book · 2018 · History
The Great Uprising
Race Riots in Urban America during the 1960s
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I'm going to I'm going to read a quote from a book called The Great Uprising, which is about this sort of period. Between 1963 and 1972, America experienced over 750 urban revolts.
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Mia Wong I'm going to I'm going to read a quote from a book called The Great Uprising, which is about this sort of p… 4
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“I'm going to I'm going to read a quote from a book called The Great Uprising, which is about this sort of period. Between 1963 and 1972, America experienced over 750 urban revolts.”
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“I'm going to read another thing from the great uprising SNCC fieldworker uh John Baptist who took over for Robinson and Hansen described many of the homes in the second war.”
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“I'm going to read a passage from the book. Then the burnings began. From there, Omaha police, Wallace's quote unquote goon squad, and spectators began to beat the protesters out of the auditorium using batons and metal folding chairs.”
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“This this is from the great uprising. Yet other observers saw the uprising as a clear protest against the persistence of racial inequality. Father Richard Lawrence, an activist priest whose Catholic parish served many blacks, recalled encountering one of his parishioners on the street after the revolt had begun.”

