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Avondale residents say rioting has repercussions for families and generations to come.
Posted: 11:46 AM, Dec 10, 2020
Updated: 2020-12-14 17:52:23-05
African Americans who lived through Cincinnati’s riots in the late ‘60s have strong opinions over whether they should be used alongside peaceful protest to advance civil rights.
CINCINNATI — The history of Avondale is known for a number of things in the Cincinnati area, but perhaps one of the most notorious, impactful and memorable chapter in the neighborhood’s history are the race riots that occurred there in the late 1960s.
The grainy, jarring images of past uprisings are eerily similar to the visuals America has been confronted with from this year’s race riots, and those similarities have uniquely resonated with the local residents who experienced the earlier scenes of unrest firsthand. The very same Black people of Cincinnati who took part in or passively watched the riots of 67 and ....

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