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

The Martyr Made Podcast

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The Rise and Fall of the Black Liberation Struggle

In the immediate aftermath of Watts, the LA Times was already referring to the destruction as an uprising. Militant saw Watts as both a promising turning point in the black liberation struggle and a repudiation of integrationist liberalism. Post riot surveys showed that though whites and Latinos were resentful, the riots boosted black self-esteem. In 1962 the Ford Foundation had created the mobilization for youth which received millions of dollars from the federal government to serve juvenile delinquents in Manhattan's lower east side.

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