The Rochester Public Library has released a new collection dealing with the Rochester riot of July 1964.

Rochester Riots of 1964, Vol. 1 (157 pages) is a scrapbook of newspaper clippings for the days during the riot (July 25 – Aug. 3). Then Volume 2 (168 pages) has newspaper articles on the aftermath of the riot up to 1969. They tell of the hearings and trials . The articles also describe rebuilding of the neighborhoods and building new relationships between people and the police.

Riots of July, 1964 is a typed report by the City Manager dated April 1965. It gives a chronology of the riot, has a breakdown of the 893 arrests and tries to describe some things that could be done to prevent future riots.