The King assassination riots, also known as the Holy Week Uprising, were a wave of civil disturbance which swept across the United States following the...
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The 1968 Chicago riots, in the United States, were sparked in part by the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Rioting and looting followed, with people...
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Following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., a leading African-American civil rights activist, on April 4, 1968, Washington, D.C., experienced...
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(the most destructive riots taking place in Detroit and Newark), came to a climax during the national wave of King assassination riots in over 100 American...
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1992 Los Angeles riots (also called the South Central riots, Rodney King riots or the 1992 Los Angeles uprising) were a series of riots and civil disturbances...
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the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, and two months before the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in June 1968. As early as the mid-1950s, King had...
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and national guard. The immediate cause of the riot was the April 4 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee, which triggered unrest...
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United States to be the subject of rioting after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. The rioting in Kansas City did not erupt on April 4, like other...
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Detroit riot was a civil disturbance that occurred between April 4–5, 1968 in Detroit, Michigan following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Less...
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Pittsburgh riots were a series of urban disturbances that erupted in Pittsburgh on April 5, 1968, following the assassination of Martin Luther King. Pittsburgh...
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Orangeburg, South Carolina King assassination riots, April and May, across the United States, including: 1968 Washington, D.C., riots, April 4–8, Washington...
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The 1968 New York City riot was a disturbance sparked by the assassination of Martin Luther King on April 4, 1968. Harlem, the largest African-American...
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Black Rage (book) (category King assassination riots)
Price M. Cobbs. Released in 1968 after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and the subsequent riots in Washington, D.C., the book received significant...
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Wilmington Riot of 1968 occurred in Wilmington, Delaware, in April of that year following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. The riot did not cause...
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Oakland, California began to rise during the late 1960s after the King assassination riots, and by the end of the 1970s Oakland's per capita murder rate had...
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Civil Rights Act of 1968 (redirect from Anti-Riot Act)
into law by United States President Lyndon B. Johnson during the King assassination riots. Titles II through VII comprise the Indian Civil Rights Act, which...
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conjunction with the ghetto riots (1964–1969), a group of riots which includes the long, hot summer of 1967 and the King assassination riots of 1968, which caused...
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York delivered an improvised speech several hours after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Kennedy, who was campaigning to earn the Democratic Party's...
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1968 Democratic National Convention (section Riots)
1968 was held during a year of riots, political turbulence, and mass civil unrest. The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in April of that year inflamed...
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Stonewall riots, and there was already the emergence of a gay liberation movement in New York at the time of the riots. The Stonewall riots were not the...
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Revolutionary Union Movement Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. Howard University student protest King assassination riots Baltimore Wilmington Louisville...
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days of rioting in May 1968. As in many other cities around the country, there were unrest and riots partially in response to the assassination of Martin...
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of unsold records was destroyed in a warehouse fire in the 1968 King assassination riots. As a result, very few Shrine records remain today and are highly...
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Avondale, Cincinnati (category King assassination riots)
neighborhood erupted into unrest again. The 1968 riots were in response to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968. Tension in Avondale...
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The 1968 Tallahassee riots were one of many riots that broke out after Martin Luther King was assassinated in Tallahassee, Florida lasting from April...
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of race riots in the United States King assassination riots, a series of race riots that occurred after the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. "A...
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York City draft riots during the American Civil War, and it was not surpassed until the 1992 Los Angeles riots 25 years later. The riot was prominently...
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United States King assassination riots, in US 1968 List of food riots List of riots Mass racial violence in the United States Orange Riots, Irish Catholics...
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officers were shot in Karachi during the riots following the assassination. Musharraf ordered a crackdown on rioters and looters to "ensure safety and security...
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into law by United States President Lyndon B. Johnson during the King assassination riots. Titles II through VII comprise the Indian Civil Rights Act, which...
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