According to legend and lore, Detroit used to be a great place to live. It was a prosperous melting pot and the best of all that America had to offer. That is until the conflict-filled 1960s when young people, specifically young militant activists, became too impatient with the pace of civil rights progress (which, apparently, was going along quite smoothly) and tore up their own city in the Detroit Riot of 1967. This was the story told by journalists such as William Shannon, who titled his New York Times piece on this dramatic event: "Negro Violence v. the American Dream."2
Apparently, after the city burned, it was doomed. After all, who in their right mind would want to live in a city that had just witnessed tanks rolling through the streets, buildings going up in flames, and its citizens ducking sniper fire? How could anyone possibly feel safe in their own hometown once it was necessary for rifle-wielding National Guardsmen to patrol the streets day and night? And, in the minds of more than a few former Detroiters, the fact that a black mayor began running the city shortly after it burned also made it an undesirable place to live. This black mayor, it would seem, hated white folks, especially white suburbanites, and had made it abundantly clear that they were no longer welcome in the City. This version of Detroit's deterioration is by no means the only one, and indeed, it may well be one of the more extreme. And yet, this core interpretation resonates deeply with countless former Detroiters and has informed more than a few media accounts of this City's eventual collapse. Even those who acknowledge that rioters had much to rebel against in the aftermath of WWII, and thus do not blame the decline of Detroit on irrational black "militancy," nevertheless often believe that the.............
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1- What is OLEA? Who started OLEA?
2- What was the 650-Lifer law?
3- How many children in the U.S. have a parent that is currently in prison? How many children have a parent that has been incarcerated at some point in their childhood?