In this year, Arnold Hess agreed to stay on the Board of Education to prevent opposition to his tapped successor. In this year, opposition to a planned medical school using funds from the “Model Cities” Program amplified an incident at the William P. Hayes Homes. A warning of forthcoming violence if “America don’t come around” was given in Cambridge, Maryland, in this year by H. Rap Brown. In response to prior events during this year, Walter Headley announced a tough-on-crime policy for so-called “young hoodlums” summed up as “when the looting starts, the shooting starts.” The Kerner Commission probed events during this year that culminated with one in which a bullhorn-wielding John Conyers attempted to quell protests later dealt with by George Romney. For 10 points, name this year in which the Detroit Riot spotlighted a “long, hot summer” one year before the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. ■END■
ANSWER: 1967 [prompt on ’67] (Newark Mayor Hugh Addonzio was set to appoint white councilman James Callaghan, who did not possess a post-secondary education, over City Budget Director Wilbur Parker, the first Black public accountant in New Jersey. Taxi driver John Smith was arrested near the Hayes Homes in Newark.)
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