The June 10, 1966, cover of Life magazine is a gauge of how much America has changed—and how much it hasn’t. It featured a photo of Elizabeth Taylor from her movie “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” —which it described as a “shocker” that “shatters the rules of censorship.” Today the film wouldn’t shock a fifth-grader.
The other story mentioned on the cover was “Plot to Get ‘Whitey’: Red-hot young Negroes plan a ghetto war.” That caption could run on the popular Drudge Report website, which after the murder of five police officers in Dallas had such headlines as “Black Lives Kill,” “He wanted to kill white people” and “‘Black Power group’ warns of more assassinations.”
Fifty years ago, the specter of black revolt haunted many whites. Demonstrations and riots by African-Americans induced widespread fear. For some, Steve Chapman explains, they still do.
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