York Race Riot

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This happened in York, Pennsylvania, a small city where people who lived only a few blocks apart lived in separate worlds — in what a local newspaper has called “a de facto segregated and discriminatory system supported by city government.” William Lee Smallwood, now a city councilman, said, “I remember as a teen-ager being routinely stopped by the cops when they’d see me with a white girl.” Black citizens of York had been marching on city hall since 1963, protesting police violence and official discrimination. Their demands for a bi-racial police review board were turned down by the all-white city council. The marchers were frequently clubbed or had German shepherds set on them by police.


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