1968 New York City riot

When

4 Apr 1968

Kind

Riot

Coordinates

40.71° N, 74.01° W

Description

Disturbance after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

Placed at the town its title names, New York City.

Disturbance after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

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.

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