Arguably, although the 1964 Civil Rights Act was a remarkable achievement of the black insurgency, the voting issue was still unresolved and the urban uprisings that erupted during the summer of 1964 in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, and other northern cities (heralding the widespread national civil disorders that would culminate with the outbreaks of sorrow … Continue reading MLK’s Radical Alternative to Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty