From the Bomb to the Beat: How Civil Defense Turned to Urban Unrest in Cold War America
This is the fourth entry in our 10th Annual Graduate Student Blogging Contest, “Revolution.” By Heather N. Jahrling White police in white helmets. Jimmy Breslin spotted them in Harlem in July 1964, as protests over the fatal police shooting of fifteen-year-old James Powell spiraled into six days of fiery disorder: “The cops were everywhere, four […]
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