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It was 50 years ago that Rochester was rocked by three-days of rioting that erupted in two predominantly African American neighborhoods. A number of factors contributed to the violence, including a lack of job opportunities for African Americans, overcrowding and allegations of police brutality.This series not only looks back at the issues that led to the rioting 50 years ago, but looks forward at issues still impacting that same community and whether we could ever see something like that happen again.

Lessons From July '64: A Need To Know Special

http://youtu.be/ECayx5Ar0oYOn this edition of Need to Know, we devote our program to the 50th anniversary of the Rochester riots. Disparities in employment, troubled police relations, racism in housing, and concentrated poverty, among other issues, plagued certain neighborhoods and residents in our community five decades ago. And 50 years later we ask the question: How far have we come? National author and speaker Bruce Jacobs and members of the WXXI News Team help answer that question.