Freedom summer

Tom Blumer writes about what happened that summer fifty years ago, when the Civil Rights Act was passed, and then riots erupted:

Is the conventional wisdom that the 1960s race riots and the fractured race relations and white flight to the suburbs they caused were simply manifestations of long-simmering black community frustrations triggered by specific events, or were they proactively fueled by people determined to ensure that the legitimate civil rights movement’s milestone accomplishment would not work out as hoped, and that race relations would not improve?

Blumer thinks it was the latter.
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