From Riots To Recovery
From Riots To Recovery
Former Washington D.C. Mayor, Walter Washington, saying that the city was primarily run by Congress and local citizens didn't have much voice.
From Riots To Recovery
John Hechinger, former Washington D.C. City Council Chairman, saying that D.C. started off as a segregated city, with a history of bad race relations before the Civil Rights movement.
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Adult African American and Caucasian male civil rights leaders including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) posing for a group photo in the Oval Office with U.S. President John F Kennedy (JFK) and U.S. Vice President Lyndon Johnson (LBJ).
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Overview of the crowds gathered at the Washington Mall, around the reflecting pool for the March on Washington; Washington Monument in BG. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) and other adult African American and Caucasian men marching in Washington D.C.
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John Snipes talking about lack of organization in the local civil rights struggle; store counter in BG.
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Stokely Carmichael talks about Civil Rights activities for economic justice; young adult African American male and female working behind restaurant counter.
From Riots To Recovery
Host Juan Williams walks on sidewalk and speaks to camera, saying that by 1965, black power slogans and urban rioting became new parts of civil rights struggle. However, the African American community in Washington, D.C. was more accustomed, and preferred, to fight discrimination through the legal system or low-key negotiations with "powerful whites".
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Former Washington, D.C. Mayor, Walter Washington, saying that he preferred to negotiate to try to get some benefits for the African American residents.
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Stokely Carmichael saying that "Walter Washington wasn't even considered, then. Wasn't even considered."
From Riots To Recovery
Outline map of the United States with a red backdrop; various B&W of U.S. National Guard soldiers, firefighters arriving on scene to destroyed and burning buildings from riots in Los Angeles (Watts), Detroit, and Newark. Host Juan Williams, narrating, says that even after riots of 1965 and 1967, D.C. officials did not predict a riot in their city, even though rioting had become "the thing to do" and produced immediate responses.