LESSONS FOR 2018 FROM ONE OF AMERICA’S MOST TUMULTUOUS YEARS
by KATIE REILLY
Dec 25, 2017
2 minutes
IT WAS A YEAR MARKED BY A racially coded law-and-order campaign pitted against a fierce social-justice resistance, the unrest and defiance of a “troubled and troublesome” young generation, questions about gun control in the wake of devastating violence, and the “fear and frustration and anger” that defined a presidential election.
That year was 1968—which saw the election of Richard Nixon; the assassinations of Martin
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