Spaces mark where a thriving commercial district once stood. There are lingering questions and issues that led to the rioting. We are here with the Detroit Free Press. And we are joined by heather and thompson and detroit page editorial editor. We will be live for the next two hours taking your calls, tweets, and facebook posts. Can we start with definitions in the sense that the event is described as a riot. Would you describe it as such or is there a better way to define what happened . That term connotes chaos and it is suggested everyone showed up and destroyed city for no reason. It also suggests how we should understand what happened and the impact it had. We prefer to think about it like a rebellion because all of the energy and anger at that went into that moment had long been predicted. The economic discrimination, that frustration cannot be understood as chaotic and incoherent. It was a rebellion. The word i have come to over some time is uprising which captures what happened
Spaces mark where a thriving commercial district once stood. There are lingering questions and issues that led to the rioting. We are here with the Detroit Free Press. And we are joined by heather and thompson and detroit page editorial editor. We will be live for the next two hours taking your calls, tweets, and facebook posts. Can we start with definitions in the sense that the event is described as a riot. Would you describe it as such or is there a better way to define what happened . That term connotes chaos and it is suggested everyone showed up and destroyed city for no reason. It also suggests how we should understand what happened and the impact it had. We prefer to think about it like a rebellion because all of the energy and anger at that went into that moment had long been predicted. The economic discrimination, that frustration cannot be understood as chaotic and incoherent. It was a rebellion. The word i have come to over some time is uprising which captures what happened
Earlier today, American History tv was live from detroit to look back 50 years. Our guests joined us at a Detroit Free Press room to talk about what happened and why and to answer viewer questions. This is about two hours. You are watching American History tv on cspan3. 50 years ago today, riots erupted in the city of detroit, michigan, sparked by a police raid on an illegal bar known locally as a blind pig. Five days later, 43 people are dead and 7000 have been arrested. President lyndon b. Johnson sent 5000 federal troops. Property damage was estimated at more than 30 million. The affected areas still bear the scars of the riots today. Green spaces mark where a thriving commercial district once stood. There are lingering questions about how far detroit has come addressing the issues that led to the rioting. We are here with the Detroit Free Press. And we are joined by professor Heather Ann Thompson a detroit editor. Ss we will be live for the next two hours taking your calls, tweets,
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Violence. This is about an hour and a half. Good evening. I am abraham foxman. Im currently director of the center for the semitism and from time to time i have an opportunity to welcome some of our guests particularly in the area of prejudice and engage with them with conversation. After our guests speaks and makes his presentation i will begin with some questions and make the floor available to you to ask him, argue with him whatever makes you happy. Microphone. I will. We are delighted to welcome to, memoirs of an american skinhead with its author who lived through those experiences, Christian Picciolini. Christian is here to shed light on his unlike the path as the sun up to hardworking immigrants and becoming the leader of the chicago area skinheads when he was still a teenager. After leaving the Violent Movement he was part of during his youth he began the painstaking process of rebuilding his life. In the year 2009 he cofounded an Organization Called life after hate, a Nonprofit