Book revisits Cambridge's racial strife CAMBRIDGE, MD (wesm) - (AP) A historian and author says it was years of racial inequality and misunderstandings - not one man's passionate oration from a car's roof - that caused the riots in Cambridge in 1967.

The author of the bool "Civil War on Race Street", Peter Levy, says years of denying blacks housing, good jobs and quality recreational facilities fueled the racial tension. Widespread fires destroyed 20 buildings and two city blocks in the city's mainly black Second Ward.

Levy concludes the speech by Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Chairman H. Rap Brown didn't incite the riots.

Levy is the author of "Civil War on Race Street." --- Information from: The (Annapolis, Md.) Capital, http://www.hometownannapolis.com/
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