[1] The seven days of rioting, looting, and destruction left more than 180 people injured, including 15 New Jersey state troopers, and resulted in an estimated $5,600,000 in damages.
According to Katrina Martin in an article for the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University, "At the time of the riots, Asbury Park was a town of 17,000, 30% of which were African-American.
The Great Depression, followed by World War II, caused the resort industry in Asbury Park to change dramatically to keep up with the times.
Next to Los Angeles, Detroit, or Newark, where major “race riots” took place in the 1960s, Asbury Park is a small town.
Then, too, in Asbury no one died, and historians, who are never immune to the culture in which they live, tend to measure the importance of civil unrest in terms of the death toll.