![]() ![]() In a mysterious case, he was slain by a rookie cop named Peter Bienkowski at the 125 th Street and Lenox Avenue subway station in 1968. The “summer of love” had come and gone, replaced, as poet and singer Gil Scott-Heron later sang, by “winter in America,” and the entire nation was on edge.įifty years ago, thirty-three-year-old southern expat Henry Dumas, a young black writer, was killed. ![]() Although King’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963 was inspiring, it wasn’t strong enough to hold back the turbulent riots and flowing blood, sometimes courtesy of trigger-happy cops. ![]() While the decade began with Martin Luther King’s non-violent civil rights protests, sit-ins, and marches against segregation and other racial inequalities, by the mid-60s the roar of black power began to drown out the passive voices. In the spring of 1968, the Rascals tune “A Beautiful Morning” was one of the most popular songs in the country, but for black Americans, things weren’t quite so sweet. ![]() This is The Blacklist, a monthly column by Michael Gonzales exploring out-of-print books by African-American authors. ![]()
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