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Violent Set-backs
1media/Screen Shot 2023-03-27 at 12.27.50 PM_thumb.png2023-03-27T19:29:20+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a4911While the 1960s brought extraordinary progress for civil rights, the decade also brought violent setbacks. On July 12, 1967, an act of police brutality against an African-American man in Newark, N.J. sparked riots throughout the city that would last for six days and leave 26 dead and hundreds injured. -/AFP/Getty Imagesplain2023-03-27T19:29:20+00:001960sGina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49