... blacks tended to avoid areas where their presence could create conflict. African Americans willingness to avoid conflict vanished; however, when a young black bather was stoned by white onlookers after drifting into a notoriously white area of the beach. The African American boy subsequently died from his injuries, but police refused to arrest the white man who initially threw the stones, igniting a race war ... people gathered to pay tribute to the teenager, but chaos quickly engulfed the city as angry groups began looting businesses, setting fires, and using Molotov cocktails to expres...

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