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African Americans feel powerless
in the period leading up to the riots( police racial profiling, redlining, and lack of opportunity of education, training, and jobs) led local African American residents to feel powerless and disenfranchised. -
Pope Paul VI announced his Apolistic Constitution and also declared this day a "world peace" day
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Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. called the Vietnam War the biggest ostacle to the civil rights movement
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Interracial Marriages are accepted
The Us Supreme Courts ruled Anti-Miscegenation laws to be unconstitutional. -
Riot containment
In an attempt to contain the riots, every evening at 6pm the Bridge street and Jackson Street Bridges, both of which span the Passiac River between Newark and Harrison, were closed until the next morning -
The Newark riot in 1967
Newark riots were a major civil disturbance that occured in Newark, NJ Bewtween July 12- July 17th 1967. -
Riot's leading to death
27 people were killed as a result of the Newark riot -
Poor population
Indusrty and white middle class fled the city of newark, and left behind a poor population
