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Paperback In the Heat of the Summer: The New York Riots of 1964 and the War on Crime Book

ISBN: 0812224353

ISBN13: 9780812224351

In the Heat of the Summer: The New York Riots of 1964 and the War on Crime

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On the morning of July 16, 1964, a white police officer in New York City shot and killed a black teenager, James Powell, across the street from the high school where he was attending summer classes. Two nights later, a peaceful demonstration in Central Harlem degenerated into violent protests. During the next week, thousands of rioters looted stores from Brooklyn to Rochester and pelted police with bottles and rocks. In the symbolic and historic...

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