The long, hot summer of 1967 : urban rebellion in America / Malcolm McLaughlin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McLaughlin, Malcolm, 1974- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Politics and government--20th century.

African Americans.

African Americans--Politics and government.

African Americans--Social conditions--1964-1975.

African Americans--Social conditions.

Social conflict.

History.

Riots.

Inner cities.

African American neighborhoods.

United States--Race relations--History--20th century.

United States.

Race relations.

United States--Social conditions--1960-1980.

Social conditions.

Racism--United States--History--20th century.

Racism.

African American neighborhoods--History--20th century.

Inner cities--United States--History--20th century.

Black power--United States--History--20th century.

Black power.

Riots--United States--History--20th century.

Social conflict--United States--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

xiii, 227 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Summary:

"It seemed at times during the 1960s that America was caught in an unending cycle of violence and disorder. Successive summers from 1964-1968 brought waves of urban unrest, street fighting, looting, and arson to Black communities in cities from Florida to Wisconsin, Maryland to California. In some infamous cases like Watts (1965), Newark (1967), and Detroit (1967), the turmoil lasted for days on end and left devastation in its wake: entire city blocks were reduced to burnt-out ruins and scores of people were killed or injured--mainly by police officers and National Guardsmen as they battled to regain control. This book takes the pivotal year of 1967 as its focus and sets it in the context of the long, hot summers to provide new insights into the meaning of the riots and their legacy. It offers important new findings based on extensive original archival research, including never-before-seen, formerly embargoed and classified government documents and newly released official audio recordings"-- Provided by publisher.

"Shattering glass, stores looted and torched, the flare of Molotov cocktails, the crack of gunfire: these were the sights and sounds that announced the arrival of another long, hot summer. Beginning in Harlem in 1964, the ghetto revolt surged through Watts and Hough in successive years before cresting in 1967 in Newark, Detroit, and scores of other cities across the United States. It plunged Lyndon Johnson's White House into crisis. Liberals called for an expansion of his Great Society reforms to eradicate ghetto poverty and end racial inequality. Conservatives demanded a police crackdown. Meanwhile, Black power spokesmen Stokely Carmichael and H. Rap Brown condoned the revolt and defined the demands of the ghetto as nothing short of revolution. The nation would never be the same again. The Long, Hot Summer of 1967 sets these explosive events in context and explains how they shaped the course of modern American history"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Long, Hot Summers

An Explosive Mixture

Harvest of American Racism

Southern Campus Rebellion

Urban Uprising

The Battle for the Streets

The Apostles of Violence

The City of Hope

Epilogue: Dreams Deferred

List of Abbreviations.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137269621

1137269626

OCLC:

864093269