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

The Martyr Made Podcast

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The Power of Resistance in the 1960s

Mass media coverage of the Watts riots caused the race riots to metastasize. Paul Williams, a young participant in the riots, described their almost mystical effect on him. There was a feeling that every aspect of the existing society had been discovered to be wrong and could be opposed. The movement generated an atmosphere of confrontation, which turned giddy and hot.

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