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	King Encyclopedia
		The campaign was not launched until after King's 1968 assassination, however, and the absence of King's leadership was believed to have compromised the campaign's effectiveness.
		They aimed to bring 1,500 protesters to Washington, D.C., to lobby Congress and other governmental agencies for an "economic bill of rights." Specifically, the campaign requested a $30 billion anti-poverty package that would include a commitment to full employment, a guaranteed annual income measure, and increased construction of low-income housing.
		On 12 May 1968 the first wave of demonstrators arrived in Washington, D.C. One week later, Resurrection City was built on the Washington Mall, a settlement of tents and shacks to house the protesters.
	www.stanford.edu /group/King/about_king/encyclopedia/poorpeoples.html (524 words)

	Washington, DC Encyclopedia Article @ Accorded.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		"D.C." is an abbreviation for the District of Columbia, the
		The Greater Washington metropolitan area, including contiguous areas of Maryland and Virginia, had an estimated population of 5.8 million in 2003, according to the estimates of the Greater Washington Initiative.
		Washington is home to numerous national landmarks and is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the United States.
	www.accorded.org /encyclopedia/Washington,_DC (2771 words)

	wamu.org : Programs : Metro Connection : 20th Century Washington
		In this installment, we focus on the aftermath of a racially motivated riot in the summer of 1919, and look at the state of race relations in the 1920's when African-Americans comprised a quarter of the District's population.
		The decade began in the wake of the riots that followed the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
		And by the end of the decade, states were considering a constitutional amendment to give DC full voting rights in the senate and house.
	www.wamu.org /programs/mc/special/20th_century_washington.php (732 words)

	Independent Sector \| 2005 Annual Conference -- Washington, D.C.
		in 1968 are in the midst of a renaissance – often sparked by community-based nonprofits.
		Washington figures prominently in the history of philanthropy and the nonprofit sector in the United States.
		Washington is two cities -- a national capital whose monuments and museums draw millions of tourists each year and whose nonprofit institutions are national in scope, and a diverse and rapidly growing region of neighborhoods, playgrounds, schools, places of worship, and community organizations that is home to millions of people.
	www.independentsector.org /AnnualConference/2005/washington.html (682 words)

	DC info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Washington is divided along a north-south axis by Rock Creek, historically a barrier to east-west movement.
		Washington has a temperate midlatitude climate with mean temperatures of 3 deg C (37 deg F) in January and 26 deg C (79 deg F) in July.
		Interspersed among these buildings are the Washington Monument (163 m/535 ft; 1884); the Lincoln (1922) and Jefferson (1943) memorials on either side of the Tidal Basin, around which a profusion of Japanese cherry trees flowers each spring; and the imposing neo-Gothic facade of the Smithsonian Institution.
	sc94.ameslab.gov /TOUR/dc.html (534 words)

	Books by Paul K. Williams
		Washington D.C. today is primarily known for its expansive mall and world recognized monuments, but relatively little has been published on the historic neighborhoods where residents have lived since the site of the Nation's Capitol was selected in 1790.
		Washington residents witnessed the local population nearly double in a few short years, as a mostly female work force descended on the city, while its male population went off to combat in Europe and the Pacific.
		It wasn't until a century later, however, that the neighborhood was connected to Washington city by the "million dollar bridge" over Rock Creek Park that the area began to attract new residents escaping the heat of downtown and arriving in mass by electric trolley.
	www.washingtonhistory.com /Books (2091 words)

	The Virtual Jewish History Tour - Washington, DCThe Virtual Jewish History Tour - Washington, DC
		In the 1840s, Washington saw an influx of German immigrants, including small numbers of young Jews with family ties to the burgeoning Jewish community of Baltimore, Maryland.
		A number of national conventions and delegations to government officials were held in the district, and, after 1948, the Embassy of Israel was located in the city, reinforcing Zionist sentiments in the community.
		During the 1968 racial riots, the 16th Street DCJCC closed and Jews living on the east side of the park moved to the suburbs, and the JCC followed them.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/vjw/dc.html (1293 words)

	Explore DC: The Struggle for Civil Rights
		Washington, DC was on the cutting edge of the civil rights movement.
		In 1952, another Howard-trained Washington lawyer, Charles Houston, successfully argued a Supreme Court case that housing covenants were not legally enforceable.
		The resurgence of interest in the city's vital African American story is epitomized in the revival of Shaw, the "Black Broadway," and once the heart and soul of the segregated fl community.
	www.exploredc.org /index.php?id=186 (493 words)

	Councilmember Jack Evans Weekly Newsletter
		Additionally, WASA has partnered with the DC Department of Health to administer free lead screenings for children between the ages of six months and six years old and pregnant mothers.
		However, the widening of 9th Street with its subsequent loss of street trees and yards, the flight of the middle class to the suburbs, the increase of absentee landlords and the 1968 riots led to deterioration of the area.
		It came to light during the hearing that the Public Service Commission (which has formal oversight of all DC utilities) has directed Washington Gas to provide by March 8 a complete report on the outages, including the causes and solutions to the problem.
	www.dccouncil.washington.dc.us /EVANS/newsletter/New.htm (4049 words)

	DC Vote - Press Releases
		Washington, DC- Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released the following statement on the passing of Mayor Walter E. Washington.
		Mayor Washington simultaneously shaped the office of mayor and the practice of home rule governance for a city that had lived without democracy for a hundred years.
		The mayor was legendary for his way with the President and the Congress, but Walter Washington was appreciated in this town not only because he could talk to power but because he talked equally well to the powerless.
	www.dcvote.org /media/release.cfm?releaseID=99 (377 words)

	Dan Collison at Talking History
		The 1968 Washington, DC riots and the federal government's response altered the social and political climate of the nation's capitol.
		This 1988 portrait of Washington, DC is framed against the backdrop of history and drawn from the perspectives of a variety of individuals whose lives were, and are, directly affected by those events.
		A profile of Washington, DC bail bondsman Mardis Mitchell and bounty hunter Robert Anderson.
	www.albany.edu /talkinghistory/collison.html (1486 words)

	Timeline 1968
		1968 Mar 17, In Vietnam during the siege of Khe Sanh, the longest and bloodiest battle of the Vietnam War, Manny Babbit was wounded.
		1968 J. Anthony Lukas (d.1997 at 64) won a Pulitzer Prize for his book "The Two Worlds of Linda Fitzpatrick." It was about a teenage girl from an affluent Connecticut family beaten to death with her hippie boyfriend after turning to a life of drugs in the East Village.
		1968 Cerro Negro, a volcano in Nicaragua, erupted.
	timelines.ws /20thcent/1968.HTML (12688 words)

	Chinatown (Washington, DC) - Chinese Restaurant - Chinese Restaurant and Chinese Food
		Chinatown in Washington, DC is a small, historic neighborhood east of downtown, in the present day consisting of a handful of ethnic ChinaChinese and other Asian restaurants and small businesses along H and I Streets between 6th and 8th Streets, Washington DC (northwest)Northwest.
		The neighborhood is served by the Gallery Pl-Chinatown (Washington Metro)Gallery Place-Chinatown station of the Washington Metro.
		A peripheral section was torn down for the construction of the old Washington Convention Center at 900 9th St NW; the city constructed the Wah Luck House at 6th and H Sts.
	www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Chinatown_(Washington,_DC) (540 words)

	CNN - Nation's capital still recovering from 1968 riots - Apr. 4, 1998
		WASHINGTON (CNN) -- It's been three decades since Martin Luther King's assassination sparked riots in Washington, D.C., and parts of the nation's capital are still trying to recover from the impact of the violence.
		CNN's Kathleen Koch tours a D.C. neighborhood that is slowly returning after the riots thirty years ago
		Nevertheless, the riots destroyed the district's African-American commercial hubs.
	www.cnn.com /US/9804/04/mlk.dc.riots (639 words)

	AW: Exploring the Upsurge in Avant Garde Music
		Built to a Masonic design, Washington DC is a city that is a secret even unto itself.
		Although Washington's musical reputation may be founded on its bygone punk and go-go years, a recent upsurge in adventurous sounds from the city's expanding community of experimental artists is beginning to redraw DC's musical map.
		This do-it-yourself philosophy, partially a legacy of Washington's punk scene, allows the artists to create on their own terms and has been responsible for producing some of the most innovative art in the city at this time.
	www.cultural-alliance.org /pubs/surveyofsounds.htm (487 words)

	Washington DC Dulles Travel Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In addition to the wealth of attractions relating to our government and its history, you can examine Impressionist masterpieces in the National Gallery of Art, experience the beauty of the United States Botanical Gardens' exotic plants and flowers, and learn about the creatures of the African Savannah at the National Zoo.
		The barely completed capital of the infant republic was captured and burned (1814) by the British during the War of 1812, but it was soon reconstructed.
		Today, between the historic core Washington and its mid-20th-century suburbs, lie a somewhat dilapidated 19th-century city east of Rock Creek, occupied mostly by African Americans, and an early-20th-century city west of Rock Creek (which envelops the exclusive 18th-century and early-Federal Georgetown section), occupied largely by affluent whites.
	www.washingtondulleshotels.com (476 words)

	Kelsey & Associates "The House History People"
		Yet those with an appreciation for Washington, DC history will immediately associate these establishments with the city's Cardozo-Shaw neighborhoods commonly referred to as Greater U Street.
		Fittingly, Williams' section on the 1968 urban unrest is preceded by a few depressing shots of the abandoned and then demolished Garfield Memorial Hospital, which appears earlier as a chateau-like structure with finely-manicured grounds.
		The second-to-last chapter provides a breath-taking visual account of the 1960s riots and the resultant destruction of many parts of the neighborhood.
	washingtonhistory.com /Books/reviews/ustreet_rev.htm (975 words)

	1968 Washington, D.C. riots - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Edgar Hoover's suggestion to shoot the rioters, went on to become the city's first elected mayor and its first fl mayor.
		New York Avenue Presbyterian Church: "DC Riots of 1968"
		Gilbert, Ben W. and the Staff of the Washington Post (1968) Ten Blocks from the White House, Anatomy of the Washington Riots of 1968.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1968_Washington,_DC_riots (627 words)

	Buyout Footage - War Protest And Demonstration Stock Footage ; Public Domain Stock Footage Library.
		Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., prior to the march on Washington D.C., participates in a roundtable discussion of rights as they pertain to the government down to individual civil rights.
		Anti-war protest and demonstration under the shadow of the Washington Monument with civilian demonstrators as well as a contingent of war vets marching against the war as well.
		WASHINGTON D.C. Riots and protests break out in our Nations' capitol as the news of the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr.
	www.buyoutfootage.com /pages/pd_socialunrest.html (958 words)

	On Tap Magazine \| Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Washington, DC metro area's magazine for music, entertainment, nightlife and culture.
		Deily hated the fact that DC lacked venues, and was especially displeased with the way “a particular venue treated local bands because they didn't have any competition and they felt they could do whatever they pleased.
		These days, Deily is a DC staple and a Renaissance man of many professions: musician, investor, club owner and promoter.
	www.ontaponline.com /view_article.php?article_id=10317 (863 words)

	Get Your Kicks...At Signal 66
		Washington D.C.'s Shaw neighborhood is a mixture of small businesses and boarded up storefronts, small art galleries and liquor stores.
		This was one of the neighborhoods most hit by the riots of 1968, and it has been struggling to recover ever since.
		But now the city is building a huge new convention center there, and the neighborhood is on the brink of a major revitalization.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/washington_dc/62644/1 (479 words)

	"The American Dream Does Not Yet Exist for All Our Citizens": Kerner Commission Members Discuss Civil Unrest
		The Commission’s 1968 report, informally known as the Kerner Report, concluded that the nation was “moving toward two societies, one fl, one white—separate and unequal.” Unless conditions were remedied, the Commission warned, the country faced a “system of ’apartheid’” in its major cities.
		In April 1968, one month after the release of the Kerner report, rioting broke out in more than 100 cities following the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.
		In 1961, the unemployment rate for Negro teenagers was 27.6 percent; in 1967, it was 26.5 percent.
	historymatters.gmu.edu /d/6465 (1967 words)

	WASHINGTON-DC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Metro DC area has a wide array of excitement for everyone in your family.
		Washington, D.C. is a wonderful place to visit.
		There is so much to do and see in our nation's capital that you'll want to plan a return visit.
	www.webtac.com /dc/index.htm (449 words)

	"Down From the Mountain" by Benjamin Wallace-Wells
		The white, Southern journalist Taylor Branch (a Washington Monthly contributing editor) has just finished the last volume of his stunning, exhaustive three-part history of the Civil Rights movement, America in the King Years, which he has been working on for a quarter of a century.
		In Branch's expert hands, the next three years of American history are the diffusion of that certainty and the political momentum it would bring—and that progressives have spent the last 40 years trying in vain to recapture.
		The Washington Monthly 1319 F Street N.W. Washington DC.
	www.washingtonmonthly.com /features/2006/0603.wallace-wells.html (1775 words)

	New Page 1
		April 6, 1968 --During the 1968 Riots, Washington, DC was the hardest hit city in the nation with over 470 building fires resulting in 7 civilian deaths and 149 firefighter injuries.
		June 6, 1968 --During construction of the Crystal Mall development in Crystal City there was a major structural collapse which resulted in 3 deaths and 33 injuries.
		Within the boundaries of Arlington are located Washington Reagan National Airport, Arlington National Cemetary, Iwo Jima Marine Memorial, The Pentagon (yes, the Pentagon IS located in Arlington and NOT in DC!!!!!!) Interstate 66 and 395 run through the County as well as the
	www.acfd9.com /Station.htm (1663 words)

	Ward 2 Councilmember Evans' June 23, 2006 Newsletter
		Stead did not have any children and, when she died, she left an endowment to establish and maintain a recreation center for the perpetual use of "the children of Washington, DC." The actual recreation center was the Stead Carriage House and is a land marked building.
		For the 14th year, metropolitan DC residents and tourists will flock downtown to taste barbecue from the dozens of teams competing in the National Capital Barbecue Battle.
		Councilmember Evans was one of many guests attending the 19th Annual Bark Ball at the Renaissance Hotel benefiting the Washington Humane Society on June 17.
	www.dccouncil.washington.dc.us /EVANS/newsletter/Week.of.06.23.06.htm (2008 words)

	"We Are Living in a State of Anarchy": Radical Assessments and Agendas in theYear 1968
		Protests against party leadership and policies during the 1968 Democratic Party National Convention, held in Chicago, exploded into violent street confrontations.
		The Walker Report, a federal investigation of the incident, characterized the conflict as “a police riot” and blamed Mayor Richard J. Daley in part for the “unrestrained and indiscriminate police violence.” While only seven police officers faced dismissal proceedings, eight leaders of protesting organizations were indicted for conspiring to violate the 1968 Anti-Riot Act.
		But in 1968 a virtual race war is in the making.
	historymatters.gmu.edu /d/6464 (2995 words)

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