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On April 4th, 1968, the assassination of Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. triggered twelve days of riots across Washington D.C. Four decades after the unrest some communities are only now beginning to recover. Kojo explores why it took communities in Shaw and H-Street Northeast so long to recover.
Anwar Saleem, Executive Director, H Street Main Street Initiative
Jane Freundel Levey, Chief Program Officer and Historian for Cultural Tourism DC
Lawrence Guyot, Community Activist in Columbia Heights; Former Chairman, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
Merrick Malone, Principal, Metropolis Development Company
courtesy of: Star Collection, reprinted by permission of the DC Public Library; © Washington Post
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