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View Full Version : Detroit '67: Black working class was fed up, ready to organize



ckaihatsu
23rd July 2017, 18:30
When Mike Hamlin returned in 1960 to Detroit from his service in the U.S. Army in Korea, he was angry and ready to battle. While serving on the peacekeeping mission in Korea following what he considered a senseless war, Hamlin had witnessed Korean people brutalized in ways reminiscent of racism in the South, where he was born. He knew there was injustice everywhere at home.


More... (http://www.freep.com/story/news/detroitriot/2017/07/21/detroit-67-black-working-class-fed-up-ready-organize/495278001)