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Rights -- To Riots

Looking back on those tumultuous summers from nineteen sixty-five through sixty-eight: Recalling Harlem and Newark Detroit and Chicago Watts and even LA-- Young folks have asked me, Could JFK have saved the day? Here is my answer Don't know if it's right After all I'm an outsider, I'm white Yet it seems to me... LBJ's civil rights legislation somehow, one way or another failed miserably in its implementation ~ igniting 'uncivil riots' conflagrations.

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Date: 5/18/2018 8:38:00 AM
Yes, "uncivil riots" - insightful!
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Gershon Wolf
Date: 5/18/2018 2:16:00 PM
Michelle, thanks for your support. Looks as if yours may be the lone comment on this one. So thanks for beings such a 'daredevil!' Best always, Gershon

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