Riot
The week that changed the world
by Gary Wien
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For whatever reason, students
in school are taught the distant past rather than recent
history. Schools rarely teach
the lessons learned in the sixties or inform students about
the problems encountered in
the areas they live. The Newark riots, which took place for
6 days during the summer of
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1967, is a perfect example.
While kids today are growing
up seeing violence in places
like Ferguson (Missouri), Baltimore (Maryland), and Milwaukee (Wisconsin), few outside
of Newark probably ever know
about the racial problems and
riots that tore the state’s largest city apart.
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