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One Police Officer's Perspective On The 1968 Washington D.C. Riots Following Martin Luther King Jr's Assassination

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Irion, Eleanor

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Officer Thomas Lewis reflects on the early 1960s, when the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King led to rioting in the District of Columbia.
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Keywords

  1. History
  2. Race Relations
  3. Riots
  4. United States
  5. Washington (D.C.)

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