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Black riots break out in Detroit (1967)

Copyright Masaru HASHIMOTO

THE GREAT SOCIETY In the late 1960s, the escalation of the Vietnam War was also reflected in American society. Welfare spending was put on the back burner, and the pent up frustrations of lower-income people and blacks, who had long suffered under discrimination, exploded angrily.

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