Friday, September 14, 2018

BALLOTS AND BULLETS: BLACK POWER POLITICS -- part 3

AND URBAN GUERRILLA WARFARE IN 1968 CLEVELAND



James Robenalt's Ballots and Bullets: Black Power Politics and Urban Guerrilla Warfare in 1968 Cleveland.

Learn about the Glenville uprising in Cleveland, Ohio.

It was a (tragically) key moment in American history.


With a race baiting #45 & his KKK advisors, it's clear we've learned very little -- even a half century later -- from issues chronicled in this superb book.


Fred "Ahmed" Evans and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. the day before Carl Stokes was elected as the first African American mayor of a major U.S. city.  Dr. King came to Cleveland frequently in 1967 to assist in Stokes' election.

https://www.ballotsandbullets.com/home/

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