Eleanor Fischer reports on the riots in Watts, Los Angeles and Newark, NJ just a few days after the riots in Newark occurred, while tensions were still high.

She interviews various mayors and city officials around the U.S. regarding racial tension and inequality, along with a panel of African Americans who also comment on the racial climate and the needs and sentiments of the inner-city black community regarding the conditions in which they live and the political power structures to which they are subjugated. The panel includes the prominent civil rights activists, Bayard Rustin, director of the A. Phillip Randolph Institute at the time, Rap Brown, National Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee at the time, and James Farmer, co-founder of the Congress of Racial Equality.

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