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#23 Whose America?, pt. 2: Inner City Blues

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Anti-Semitism: A Tribute to Albert Shankar

Militant leaders complained that the mayor had laid down in total capitulation to the union but he really had no choice. Hundreds of black students stormed through schools throughout the city, shutting several of them down and destroying property in and around the schools. On December 26th 1968, Leslie Campbell, the ATA teacher who was at the center of so many of the problems over the course of the year, was interviewed by Julius Lester on a popular black radio station out of Harlem. The poem he chose was titled Anti-Semitism, A Tribute to Albert Shankar. Hey, Jew boy with that yarmulke on your head,. You pale-faced Jew boy, I wish you were

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