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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (135268)7/30/2013 6:42:13 PM
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The race riots in the 60's were mostly a reaction to the assassination of Black and white political leaders (King, Kennedy etc) and not economic protests per se.

The assassinations were the catalysts; however, the riots were about racial and economic discrimination.