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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 neighborhood in Manhattan was expected to erupt into looting and violence as it had done a year earlier , in which two dozen stores were either burglarized or burned and four people were killed.
Ultimately, Main Street through downtown Richmond was closed to traffic and a downtown promenade was built in 1972 (later expanded in 1978). This five-block pedestrian mall was converted to allow the street to be reopened to traffic twenty-nine years after the explosion, in 1997, as part of an urban revitalization effort.
Of the 39 people who died in the nationwide disturbances, 34 were black. Chicago, Baltimore , and Washington, D.C. experienced some of the worst riots following King's assassination. In Chicago itself, more than 48 hours of rioting left 11 Chicago citizens dead, 48 wounded by police gunfire, 90 policemen injured, and 2,150 people arrested. [ 3 ]
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 ...
A loving father of two, a former college football player, and a student from the University of Alabama were among the 14 people killed when a rented pickup truck plowed into a crowd celebrating ...
Hammond was killed by a shot to his back. [69] Middleton received seven bullet wounds: three to his arm and one each to his hip, thigh, and heart. [69] Smith was killed by shots from both sides, leaving five bullet wounds. [60] Many of the student witnesses believed that the patrolmen had mistaken Smith for Sellers and had aimed their fire at ...
Emergency services at the scene on Bourbon Street in New Orleans after a vehicle drove into a crowd on Jan. 1, 2025, killing at least 14 people. / Credit: Gerald Herbert/AP
At least 10 people were killed and dozens injured after a terrorist rammed a truck into crowds on the famed Bourbon Street in New Orleans before jumping out and shooting cops — before he was ...