While the violence that has erupted in Ferguson, Missouri, over the past few weeks appears to be subsiding, the discussion over the problems faced by those protesting in the area has not. For a historian of the 1960s, it is surprising and even alarming to see how much of this conversation has taken place before. The images emerging from Ferguson of heavily armed white police forces confronting African-American protesters, has drawn many comparisons between the unrest in Missouri and the civil rights era.
Ferguson Does Carry Echoes Of The 1960s – And They’re Coming From Right Wingers
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