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In 1964, a white, off-duty policeman killed a Black teenager in New York. That led to the now-infamous Harlem race riots.
Eight years later, a Black soldier was shot by a white police officer, inciting another riot. In 1943, a Black woman named Marjorie Polite was being arrested for disorderly conduct when a Black ...
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Ferguson riots: a story of black poverty and white supremacy
The curious phenomenon which has emerged from the Ferguson riots is that in this process the white power structure stays behind as the community turns black. The result is a white police force in ...