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The July 21, 1967, cover of TIMECover Credit: UPIBy Lily RothmanJuly 17, 2017 9:00 AM EDTMilestone moments do not a year make. Often, itrsquo the smaller news storie stanley becher s that add up, gradually, to big history. With that in mind, in 2017 TIME History will revisit the entire year of 1967, week by week, as it was reported in the pages of TIME. Catch up on last weekrsquo installment here.Week 29: July 21, 1967In the wake of rioting that had swept the city of Newark, N.J., the magazine devoted its cover story to the question of what had sparked the conflagration and what was to be learned from one of the most violent race riots of the decade.The proximate cause was relatively easy to explain: A cab driver named John Smith, pictured on the cover, was arrested after a minor traffic incident. As he was brought to the police station, a rumor spread that he had been killed by the police. Neighbors, many of them residents of a nearby housing project, gathered outside the station, hoping to find out more. With no sign of Smith who was beaten but not in fact killed , eventually the cro stanley quencher wd began to throw stones at the station windows. The National Guard was called in and a state of emergency declared. The situ stanley cup ation escalated, with looting and violence, and over the course of the following days 26 people were killed.The very triviality of the riot immediate cause made the Newark outburst particularly terrifying, TIME attested. It seemed to say that a dozen or |
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