UB History Professor: Lessons to Be Learned from '68 Riots
April 28, 2015
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Interviewed in Slate, Elizabeth Nix, assistant professor in the Yale Gordon College of Arts and Sciences and an expert on the 1968 riots that rocked Baltimore, says that recent civil unrest in the city harkens back to those days—and that trust will need to be rebuilt.
"It took a long time for residents of Baltimore to really trust each other again, and to figure out ways to really listen to each other, after the '68 uprisings," Nix said. "I think that'll be another challenge now. On the practical side, it's hard to get people to invest in a place that is unpredictable, and I think a lot of people are going to say, 'Well, is it worth the risk?' Even though we here think it definitely is."
Nix also was quoted in The Baltimore Sun and The New York Times on the same topic.
Read the Slate interview.
Read The Baltimore Sun article.
Read the coverage in The New York Times.
Learn more about Prof. Nix.
Check out UB's examination of the events of 1968, entitled Baltimore '68: Riots and Rebirth.