(Free) In the Heat of the Summer: The New York Riots of 1964 and the War on Crime (Politics and Culture in Modern America)
❀ Michael W. Flamm ❀
| #230680 in Books | 2016-10-20 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.20 x1.10 x6.30l,.0 | File Name: 0812248503 | 368 pages
||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Growing Violence|By R. G. Peterson|Here is one book that is a must-read for anyone with serious interest in U.S. history of the late 20th century and these early years of the 21st. It is based on thorough research in both standard and less well-known archives, as well as interviews with many now elderly persons who were involved as police officers, government officials, partic|||"Until now, the 1964 Harlem Riot has not been properly fixed in American and literary lore. Michael Flamm's riveting retelling of the saga—against the backdrop of a single black teenage death and replete with the journalists, politicians, and activists
On the morning of July 16, 1964, a white police officer in New York City shot and killed a black teenager, James Powell, across the street from the high school where he was attending summer classes. Two nights later, a peaceful demonstration in Central Harlem degenerated into violent protests. During the next week, thousands of rioters looted stores from Brooklyn to Rochester and pelted police with bottles and rocks. In the symbolic and historic heart of black Americ...
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