1968 Louisville riots
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1968 Louisville riots
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Louisville, Kentucky experienced three days of rioting in May 1968. As in many other cities around the country, there were unrest and riots partially in response to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., on April 4. On May 27, a group of 400 people, mostly blacks, gathered at 28th and Greenwood Streets, in the Parkland neighborhood. The intersection, and Parkland in general, had recently become an important location for Louisville's black community, as the local NAACP branch had moved its
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1968 Louisville riots: unrest in Parkland after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Louisville_riots
date created:
2006-09-10T14:34:04Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T18:38:10Z
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