Hurricane, The

Hate
got me into this place
Love
got me out

Rubin Carter

 

It was a summer of racial tensions - the year after Watts (when Marquette Frye was suspected of drunk driving) and the year before the Newark Rebellion of 1967 (when white police officers beat up a black cab driver).

Whites thought "Bobby" was the next President; blacks thought "Martin" was their champion. No one could have predicted in two years they would both be dead - killed by assassins' bullets.

It was 1966. "Hippies" were flocking to California; "The Hurricane" was a contender for the World Middleweight Title. At the time, no one would have believed that a group of white hippies and a black boxer had anything in common.

But ... 20 years of fighting a losing battle, inside an unfamiliar ring, makes even the strongest person ask for help. And ... when a man needs help, sometimes it comes from the most unlikely people and places.

Author: Carole D. Bos, J.D.

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Original Release Date:  December, 1999
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