Tag: Black in America

I didn’t think I, or anyone who was in Newark during the 1967 Riot (as it was called then), needed a picture book in order to recall the images captured by Life photographer Bud Lee.

I was only seven years old; but I believed my memories of that unforgettable week still were just as vivid, and probably even more so than Lee’s photos would be.

It was actually the first time I’d heard the phrase, “The Cops are killing Black people.” And those aren’t words a seven year old little Black boy is likely to forget.

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