Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Newark police arrested and beat a Black taxi driver during a routine traffic stop on July 12, 1967, the incident ignited long ...

NEWARK, N.J. — The rumor spread quickly: A man had been beaten to death by police. For blacks — frustrated by high unemployment, inadequate schools, substandard housing — yet another abuse by police ...

Fifty years ago, Newark erupted. On July 12, 1967, rumors spread that police had killed a black man. Though the story was untrue — the man was beaten, but survived — pent-up rage led to four nights of ...

Even Newark's riots were part of a larger pattern: Riots rocked more than 100 cities in 1967, and many — including Newark's, which erupted after the arrest of a black cabdriver — were sparked by ...