As civil rights leaders split over philosophy and strategy, racial disturbances continued to break out in scattered spots throughout the U.S.as they had nearly every other week this summer: ¶Roving bands of Negro youths roamed through the Negro section of Daytonlooting, stoning buses and breaking store windowsafter a Negro man was fatally wounded by shotgun blasts fired from a passing car containing three white men. Some 1,000 National Guardsmen and several hundred city policemen and sheriff's deputies sealed off the west-side area, which contains about 15,000 of Dayton's 70,000 Negroes, and arrested more...
Nation: The Long Summer
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