Newark March Notes Civil Rights Advances
About 100 people marched peacefully Saturday down a street that was the center of bloody rioting 20 years ago to celebrate advances in civil rights and to protest the nomination of Robert H. Bork to the Supreme Court.
The Black Liberation Day marchers, escorted by police, walked along Springfield Avenue chanting: “Stop the war on the poor; jobs and housing, we need more.”
The Newark riots, which lasted for two days and left 26 dead, were part of a series of racially related uprisings across the country during the summer of 1967.
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