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The 1967 New York City Riots: A City in Crisis
New York had no major riot in 1967; Newark and Detroit did. A look at the long hot summer across US cities, why New York was spared, and what the Kerner Commission counted.
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Northern Cities in Unrest
New York and Chicago during the long hot summers of the 1960s.
The 1967 Chicago Riots: A City in Turmoil
Chicago had no major riot in 1967. The real unrest came in June 1966 and the 1968 aftermath of King's death, with Division Street and the open housing marches between.
The 1967 New York City Blackout: A City in Chaos
New York's great blackout was on 9 November 1965, not 1967. How the cascade failure unfolded, why the city stayed calm, and how July 1977 differed.
The 1967 New York City Riots: A Year of Protests and Unrest
New York had no major riot in 1967, but it had real unrest: Brooklyn disturbances in the mid-1960s, school conflicts, and the antiwar protests that did occur in the city.
The 1967 New York City Riots: A Year of Racial Tension
New York's major riot was in July 1964, after police shot teenager James Powell. How Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant explain racial tension in the city in 1967.
The 1967 New York City Riots: A Year of Unrest and Protests
No large riot hit New York in 1967. Mayor John Lindsay's street-level approach and the July East Harlem disturbances show why he is credited with keeping the city calm.
The 1967 Protests in Chicago: A Year of Student Activism
Chicago student activism in 1966-67: the University of Chicago sit-in over class rankings and the draft, the Labor Day 1967 New Politics conference, and the 1968 protests that followed.
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