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Arrested. 5,800+. The Baltimore riot of 1968 was a period of civil unrest that lasted from April 6 to April 14, 1968, in Baltimore. The uprising included crowds filling the streets, burning and looting local businesses, and confronting the police and national guard. The immediate cause of the riot was the April 4 assassination of Martin Luther ...
The King assassination riots, also known as the Holy Week Uprising, [2] were a wave of civil disturbance which swept across the United States following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968. Some of the biggest riots took place in Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Chicago, and Kansas City.
As civil disturbances began spreading across the nation, the initially peaceful Baltimore day of April 6th, 1968 became increasingly violent. The riots ended with five deaths, 300 fires and over ...
1968 – 1968 Jacksonville riots, April 6–11, Jacksonville, Florida one person killed and 15 injured, with 12 of those caused by police. [16] 1968 – Baltimore riot of 1968, April 6–14, Baltimore, Maryland; 1968 – Avondale riot of 1968, April 8, Cincinnati, Ohio; 1968 – 1968 Kansas City riot, April 9, Kansas City, Missouri
Part of the broader riots that affected at least 110 U.S. cities, those in Washington, D.C.—along with those in Chicago and in Baltimore —were among those with the greatest numbers of participants. President Lyndon B. Johnson called in the National Guard to the city on April 5, 1968, to assist the police department in quelling the unrest.
The protests of 1968 comprised a worldwide escalation of social conflicts, which were predominantly characterized by the rise of left-wing politics, [1] anti-war sentiment, civil rights urgency, youth counterculture within the silent and baby boomer generations, and popular rebellions against state militaries and bureaucracies.
By 1968, the tensions between the African American and white citizens in Baltimore were high, and came to a head when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in April 1968. Riots broke out in Baltimore during the weekend of Palm Sunday. African American citizens were frustrated and angry. The 1968 riots were not exclusive to Baltimore.
Baltimore election riot of 1859; Baltimore railroad strike of 1877, strikes and riots which took place as part of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877; Baltimore riot of 1919, part of Red Summer; Baltimore riot of 1968, one of a series of nationwide riots in response to the death of national civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr. 2015 ...