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When violent protest broke out in Baltimore on April 6, nearly the entire Maryland National Guard, both Army and Air, were called up to deal with the unrest.The notable exceptions were the state's air defense units (which manned surface-to-air missile sites around the state), those units already on duty in the Washington, D.C., area, and a unit positioned in Cambridge, Maryland (the site of ...
Other closings in preparation or response to the riot included the University of Maryland Baltimore, which closed its campus in downtown Baltimore at 2:00 p.m. citing a police warning regarding "activities (that) may be potentially violent and UMB could be in the path of any violence", [51] Baltimore City Community College, Coppin State ...
As civil disturbances began spreading across the nation, the initially peaceful Baltimore day of April 6th, 1968 became increasingly violent. The riots ended with five deaths, 300 fires and over ...
4 April 1968, Washington, D.C., US, A report from National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders identified discrimination and poverty as the root causes of the riots that erupted in cities around the nation during the late 1960s and in Washington, DC in April 1968 [12] Baltimore riot of 1968 4 April 1968, Baltimore, Maryland, US Glenville ...
Amidst the chaos during Baltimore riots, one mother was determined to let her son know that she disapproved of his actions. Mother disciplining rioting son in Baltimore caught on camera Skip to ...
[121] [122] [123] School trips were canceled until mid-May, [124] [125] and Baltimore's city schools were closed on April 28. [126] In addition, both the University of Maryland campus in downtown Baltimore and the Mondawmin Mall were closed early. [127] Protests also took place in other U.S. cities.
This is our city. Let's make a difference," commissioner Anthony Batts said. Protests and riots have been ongoing in Baltimore since the April 12 death of Freddie Gray while he was in police custody.
By 1968, the tensions between the African American and white citizens in Baltimore were high, and came to a head when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in April 1968. Riots broke out in Baltimore during the weekend of Palm Sunday. African American citizens were frustrated and angry. The 1968 riots were not exclusive to Baltimore.