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Tampa race riots of 1967...
Tampa race riots of 1967...
Item # 724993
June 12, 1967
THE RUSSELL DAILY NEWS, Kansas, June 12, 1967
* Tampa, Florida (Central Ave.) riots of 1967
* "Long Hot Summer" civil rights unrest
* African Americans & police brutality
The front page has a one column heading: "Negroes Burn, Loot in Tampa" (see images)
Complete with 6 pages, some small binding holes along the spine/1st column, nice condition.
background: The Tampa riot of June 1967 was ignited by the fatal shooting of 19-year-old Martin Chambers, who was shot in the back by a white police officer while fleeing an alleged burglary—an event that served as a flashpoint for years of simmering resentment over systemic poverty, housing segregation, and aggressive policing. For three days, the Central Avenue business district became a landscape of arson and looting, prompting Governor Claude Kirk to deploy the National Guard and state troopers to enforce order. A defining and unique feature of the unrest was the creation of the "White Hats," a group of young Black locals recruited by city officials to patrol their own neighborhoods and de-escalate violence; while this experiment was credited with shortening the conflict, the long-term fallout was devastating. The once-thriving Black commercial hub of Central Avenue never truly recovered from the physical and economic damage, eventually being dismantled by urban renewal projects, while the incident itself became a primary case study for the Kerner Commission to illustrate the "separate and unequal" reality of 1960s America.
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