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The Savage City
Paperback Edition: 1
It was a time of hope and desperation, a time of reckoning ...In the early 1960s, the Mad Men era, a mood of menace gripped New York City. The crime rate was growing and violence was becoming a daily reality for citizens in every
neighbourhood. At the centre of the unrest was a poisonous divide between two camps : the deeply corrupt and racist police of the era and the African American community. Then, on 28 August 1963 - the day on which Martin Luther King Jr stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and declared, 'I have a dream' - two young white women were murdered in their Manhattan apartment. The killings struck fear through the city and ignited a ten-year saga of racial violence and unrest. An epic true-life story of murder, injustice and defiance, "The Savage City" draws on interviews with participants and extensive research to tell the stories of three very different New Yorkers - an innocent man wrongly accused of murder, a corrupt cop and a militant Black Panther - and to explore this traumatic decade in the city's history.
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Pages : 496
Publisher : Mainstream Publishing
Publication date : 2011-04-15
Subjects: Non-fiction, Published in the UK, Social Sciences, Social Services & Welfare, Criminology, Crime & Criminology