The long shadow of the 1968 riots
?There are lessons to be learned from what happened in 1968 that we still need to learn,? said the book?s author, J. Samuel Walker. The spark that ignited the riots was King?s assassination, he said, but issues like poverty, joblessness and poor housing led up to the destruction.
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