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Trailer | The Riot Report

Season 36 Episode 5 | 2m 20s

When Black neighborhoods across America erupted in violence in the summer of 1967, President Johnson appointed a commission to find the cause for the unrest. Their findings offered an unvarnished assessment of American race relations.

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