Soldiers stand near ruined buildings in Washington D.C. during the Martin Luther King assassination riots, 1968

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King assassination riots
The King assassination riots, also known as the Holy Week Uprising, was a wave of civil disturbance which swept the United States following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968. They were the greatest wave of social unrest the United States experienced since the Civil War. Some of the biggest riots took place in Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Chicago, and Kansas City… Wikipedia