Harlem Riot of 1964 begins 50 years ago this hour (July 18 1964)


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(Saturday, July 18, 1964, about 10:00 p.m. EDT; during the African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–68)) — Nearly a week of rioting erupted tonight in New York’s Harlem neighborhood, two days after the fatal police shooting of a black teenager, James Powell.