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

The Martyr Made Podcast

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The Importance of Class in the Post-67 Riots

Working class and middle class Catholics and Jews were viewed as having sole responsibility for any racial tension in the city, period. "You have to look at the class element to really have a sense of what was going on back then," he says. This shift in perspective was fundamental to the civil rights revolution that just would not have gotten by in modern America if you lumped all those people into two groups: white and colored.

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