1968/2008

In 68, after Martin Luther King Jr, was assassinated over 100 cities in the US had significant revolts or “riots” in poor Black neighborhoods. Those included Chicago and Baltimore. On the occasion of the 40th Anniversary of those events here are a a few articles on the topic:

• When Baltimore burned: Four decades after riots damaged lives, city’s image, we’re still picking up pieces
  By Stephen Kiehl for the Baltimore Sun
• April 4, 1968: Chicago Burned; The moment that made me a radical by Michael Dawson for The Root
• Chicago and Baltimore: Martin Luther King Riots (April 6, 1968)
• 14th & U Vibrant Again 40 Years After Riots: 1968 Riots Changed D.C.
• Social Upheavel, The Cubs and Spring of 68
• Researchers detail effects of 1968 riots on Baltimore businesses
• “Washington’s Black Community Remembers the Riots”
• The Legacy of the Riots
• Tracing a DC Neighborhood’s Comeback from 1968

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