... repression. On October 28th, 1967, the prophecy of violence was realized in a battle of gunplay between Huey Newton and the Oakland Police Department that left Officer John Frey dead, Officer Herbert Heanes shot several times, and Newton wounded in the stomach. The actual events of that evening's confrontation were never established definitively beyond the physical evidence; for all effective purposes they ... ...

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... the work of the other groups such as the NAACP. The first world war years witnessed President Wilson's unsympathetic attitude to the civil rights movement, and later the racist President Herbert Hoover 1929-33. Increased manufacturing needs meant blacks and whites living in closer proximity, and resulted in increased racial tension. Out of this the Ku Klux Klan reemerged in 1915 ... ...

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