It was 50 years ago this week 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.
All this week, WXXI News has been airing a special series - “ Lessons from July ’64" - not only to look back, but to also look forward at the issues still impacting that same community.
In part five of the series, WXXI's Alex Crichton looks at how the media covered the events in 1964, and how it's covering the minority community now:
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.
Media and the July '64 Rochester Riots
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