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Jimmy Breslin’s Classic Column, ‘The Harlem Riot’

Classic Breslin

After a white cop killed a black kid in 1964, Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn exploded in violence.

Jimmy Breslin
Jimmy Breslin
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Jimmy Breslin

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