![]() In the wake of the disturbances, President Johnson appointed Illinois Gov. She described them instead as “a rebellion… because we understand that there was a righteousness about the young people rising up - it was a rising up, it was a standing up, by young people.” In July, riots in Newark, New Jersey, left 27 dead, four were killed in Milwaukee, and in Detroit, there were 43 fatalities, some 1,200 wounded and thousands of arrests.īill spoke with then 91-year-old activist Grace Lee Boggs in 2007, who told him that she didn’t like press reports at the time that characterized events in Detroit as riots. Growing unrest caused by racial tensions and the hard despair of life in America’s cities led to a long hot summer of violence and looting.
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