Following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., a leading African-American civil rights activist, on April 4, 1968, Washington, D.C., experienced a four-day period of violent civil unrest and rioting.

2018年4月5日 · WASHINGTON — The eruption of unrest in 1968 left scars on D.C. neighborhoods for years. Many residents didn’t think some areas — marked by burned-out husks of buildings and boarded-up stores —...

The term ghetto riots, also termed ghetto rebellions, race riots, or negro riots refers to a period of widespread urban unrest and riots across the United States in the mid-to-late 1960s, largely fueled by racial tensions and frustrations with ongoing discrimination, even after the passage of major Civil Rights legislation; highlighting the ...

2018年3月27日 · On April 4, 1968, the country was still reeling from racial tensions that had sparked deadly riots the year before in Detroit and Newark. But the capital city was said to be special. Some whites...

2008年4月1日 · African-American leader Virginia Ali and novelist George Pelecanos remember the 1968 riots—and how they changed Washington. “I don’t like to predict violence,” Martin Luther King Jr. told an audience at Washington National Cathedral on March 31, 1968. The mostly white crowd of 4,000 packed the cathedral and spilled onto the lawn.

2011年4月8日 · On the last day of February 1968, a leap year, the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders chaired by Illinois Governor Otto Kerner released its report on the causes and implications of the riots that had previously touched sections of Los Angeles (1965), Chicago (1966), Newark, Detroit and even Anacostia in the summer of 1967.

Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, experienced a series of protests and riots following the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Some of the events involved violence, looting, and destruction. The White House was on lockdown the night of May 29 in response to protests reaching the gates. [2] . The protests began at 7:00 p.m.

Downtown DC, Logan Circle, Capitol Hill, Shaw, and Columbia Heights were at the center of the civic uprisings sparked by anger over Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination and longstanding discrimination. Twelve people died and hundreds of businesses were decimated.

2018年4月5日 · In 1968, when riots erupted in Washington neighborhoods after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, The Washington Post sent photographers into the mayhem. In images, they captured a...

2017年5月31日 · The Stonewall Riots, also called the Stonewall Uprising, began in the early hours of June 28, 1969 when New York City police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay club located in Greenwich Village in...