1966: Civil Liberties And Civil Rights

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The long hot summers of racial violence, a characteristic of the decade of the 1960's, continued longer and hotter in 1966, moving from the South to the North. Black power, a new concept in the Negro revolution, split the civil rights movement and intensified the white backlash. For the first time... ...