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'A Fiery Unrest: Why Plymouth Avenue Burned'

Civil rights activist Ron Edwards remembers seeing several blocks of businesses vandalized and set ablaze in July 1967.
Longtime civil rights activist Ron Edwards stands along a stretch of Plymouth Avenue on July 10, 2017, where he remembers seeing several blocks of businesses vandalized and set ablaze in July 1967. "It looked like hell. It looked like the inferno."
Laura Yuen | MPR News 2017