In the early 1960s, uncertainty and menace gripped New York, crystallizing in a poisonous divide between a deeply corrupt, cynical, and racist police force, and an African American community buffeted by economic distress, brutality, and narcotics. On August 28, 1963-the day Martin Luther King, Jr, declared “I have a dream” on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial-two young white women were murdered in their Manhattan apartment. Dubbed the Career Girls Murders case.
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