Black Rebellion: Mass Violence And The Civil Rghts Movement

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🗓️ 17 July 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Elizabeth Hinton's book America On Fire explores how aggressive policing sparked thousands of incidents of mass violence in Black communities across the United States beginning in the 1960s. NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben talks to the author about how the government's typical response to these "rebellions" — more policing — is both escalatory and inadequate.

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0:00.0	Hey there, it is the NPR Politics Podcast.
0:05.9	I'm Danielle Kurtzleben, I cover demographics and culture.
0:09.3	And today, another installment in our regular Book Club series where we, on the podcast,
0:13.8	annual listeners, read a book together and discuss it in our podcast Facebook group.
0:18.2	We are talking today to Elizabeth Hinton, author of America on Fire, the untold story of
0:22.6	police violence and black rebellion since the 1960s.
0:25.8	We have a copy of it right here.
0:28.8	It is a book that looks at the scores of clashes and that's putting it modestly between
0:34.0	black Americans and police that happened in cities across the US in the late 1960s and
0:38.8	early 1970s and the legacy of those clashes.
0:43.3	And it's a topic that is sadly repeatedly newly relevant with every new story of police
0:48.9	violence and rebellion against police violence from across the country.
0:52.6	So we are talking about all of that with Elizabeth today.
0:56.2	Elizabeth, welcome.
0:57.7	Thank you so much for having me.
0:58.7	I'm super pumped to be here.
1:00.1	Oh, great.
1:01.1	I've pumped too.
1:02.1	I love doing these episodes.
1:03.5	This is so exciting.
1:04.5	This book was excellent.
1:05.9	We should say Elizabeth is an associate professor of history in African American studies at Yale
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