From Riots To Recovery
From Riots To Recovery
"FROM RIOTS TO RECOVERY". A documentary detailing the events that led to the riots in Washington DC on April 1968, and the area's socio-economic recovery. Much archival footage, some in B&W, most in color, duly noted as such in the description.
From Riots To Recovery
Former Mayor Walter Washington, saying that the city was primarily run by Congress and local citizens didn't have much voice.
From Riots To Recovery
John Hechinger, former Washington DC City Council Chairman, saying that D.C. was always a segregated city, with a history of bad race relations before the Civil Rights movement.
From Riots To Recovery
B&W. Civil rights. Civil rights leaders including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) posing for a group photo in the Oval Office with President John F Kennedy (JFK) and VP Lyndon Johnson (LBJ)
From Riots To Recovery
The Washington Mall and Washington Monument, with hordes of people at the March on Washington in 1963. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) and other leaders marching in Washington DC.
From Riots To Recovery
John Snipes talking about lack of organization in the local civil rights struggle.
From Riots To Recovery
DO NOT USE Archival B&W stills of civil rights activists, including Kwame Ture a.k.a. Stokely Carmichael.
From Riots To Recovery
Stokely Carmichael talks about Civil Rights activities for economic justice.
From Riots To Recovery
Host Juan Williams saying that by 1965, black power and urban rioting became new parts of civil rights struggle.
From Riots To Recovery
Former Washington DC Mayor Walter Washington saying that he preferred to negotiate with white power structure to try to get some benefits for the black residents of D.C.
From Riots To Recovery
Stokely Carmichael saying that the Mayor was a pawn of the white power structure.
From Riots To Recovery
DO NOT USE still photo of Walter Washington sitting in conference with President Lyndon Johnson (LBJ).
From Riots To Recovery
Graphic of map of the U.S. with grainy archival B&W shots of soldiers, rioters, cops, and firefighters from riots, the locations of major riots being pointed out: Watts 1965, Detroit 1967, Newark 1967. VO says that even after 1967, D.C. officials did not predict a riot in their city.