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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Maybe I'm missing something. I'd be happy to be educated about the achievements brought about by the use of political violence by black radicals in the late 60s and early 70s.
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You're definitely missing something.
The race riots that engulfed America in 1967 was in part as a result of housing discrimination. Rosa Parks, who had moved to Detroit in the early 60s, remarked that it didn't seem much different than Alabama. Black unemployment was nearly 3 times as high as white unemployment, the police force was over 90% white while Detroit's population was nearly / more than 30% black.
Following the 1967 riots in Detroit, LBJ authorized the Kerner investigation to figure out the causes and remedies for the riots in Detroit. As a result of that investigation, further civil rights achievements such as the Fair Housing Act of 1968, signed into law by LBJ.
Further, you have the emergence of alternative civil rights groups/factions like Latinos organizing politically for the first time, native americans organzing as a political entity for the first time and the emergence of the Gay Rights/Gay Pride movement. The first international women's conference would convene in the 1970s following the landmark Roe. v Wade supreme court decision.
Civil Rights legislation would continue to be expanded and strengthened in the decades following hte 1967 riots, where the Kerner investigation had concluded civil rights laws themselves weren't being properly enforced at various levels of government.
Also, I strongly object to the term 'black radical' being used as the race riots of 1967 encompassed hundreds of thousands of individuals. Calling them 'black radicals' is cointelpro garbage that doesn't belong in a truthful discussion of civil rights history.