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

The Martyr Made Podcast

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The War on Poverty in Newark

SDS began to agitate against the civil rights leaders who set up the United Community Corporation in Newark. They put their activist to work telling the local black population that the program was a fraud and that new leadership was needed at the UCC. Soon they got about 70 of their followers to take over a meeting of UCC area board number three, which usually only had about 50 people show up. Their 70 just swamped it and called for a vote on new leadership and got their own people elected as trustees and board chairman. Before long they did the same with area board number two, which covered about 100,000 people in the city's central ward, which was the black heartland of

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