USA 1968
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I found this months ago in China, but just got it delivered today by my sister-in-law, which turns out to be timely given current events… This is a 1968 map published together on a single large sheet with the text of Mao Zedong’s “Statement in support of the Afro-American struggle against violent repression.” The map has red torches indicating the sites of more than four dozen urban riots/uprisings, with six additional text balloons outlining details of incidents in Kansas City, Memphis, Baltimore, Washington DC, Chicago, and Pittsburgh, calling them “an unprecedented wave of Afro-American struggle against violence.” In Mao’s statement, he argues that “Martin Luther King was an exponent of nonviolence. Nevertheless, the U.S. imperialists did not on that account show any tolerance toward him, but used counter-revolutionary violence and killed him in cold blood. This has taught the broad masses of the Black people in the United States a profound lesson.”