Saturday, September 15, 2018

BALLOTS AND BULLETS: BLACK POWER POLITICS -- part 4

AND URBAN GUERRILLA WARFARE IN 1968 CLEVELAND



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

This book is a clear and compelling story of racial disparity 50 years ago.

Read it then ask yourself have we truly progressed, in terms of social equity and civil rights, as much as we should have a half century later?

My answer is we shamefully have not.



In the spring of 1968, while Mayor Stokes kept peace in Cleveland and Bobby Kennedy came to deliver his "Mindless Menace of Violence" speech

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