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Newark Riots 1967

The summer of 1967 saw breakthroughs in jurisprudence, but a breakdown in public order. A significant break in the color line came with the appointment of Thurgood Marshall, the NAACP's lead counsel in the Brown decision of 1954,  to the Supreme Court, which ruled in the Loving v. Virginia decision that "state laws banning marriage between individuals of different races ... violated both the Due Process and the Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment." However, frustration with police misconduct, poverty and a lack of employment opportunities boiled over, prompting riots in more than 150 cities, the largest "in Newark. A black taxi driver, John Smith, was pulled over by police after he passed a double-parked police car. Officers beat him in front of incensed onlookers from a nearby housing project and took him to the local police station, [where he] was arrested on several charges, including tailgating, wrong-way driving, and assault. The city’s police force was well known for their harsh treatment of the city’s black population.... In the five-day period [that followed,] some 26 people were killed, more than 700 were injured, and more than 1,000 were arrested." Meanwhile, in Detroit,  "a total of 43 people were killed. Some 1,700 stores were looted and nearly 1,400 buildings burned, causing roughly $50 million in property damage. Some 5,000 people were left homeless." The quotes are from https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/u... https://www.britannica.com/story/the-riots... and https://www.history.com/topics/1960s/1967-....