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((King assassination riots))

The '''Louisville riots of 1968''' refers to riots in [[Louisville, Kentucky]] in May 1968. As in many other cities around the country, there were unrest and riots partially in response to the [[assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.]], on April 4. On May 27, a group of 400 people, mostly blacks, gathered at 28th and Greenwood Streets, in the [[Parkland, Louisville|Parkland]] neighborhood. The intersection, and Parkland in general, had recently become an important location for Louisville's black community, as the local [[NAACP]] branch had moved its office there.

The crowd was protesting against the possible reinstatement of a white officer who had been suspended for beating a black man some weeks earlier. Several community leaders arrived and told the crowd that no decision had been reached, and alluded to disturbances in the future if the officer was reinstated. By 8:30, the crowd began to disperse.

However, rumors (which turned out to be untrue) were spread that [[Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee]] speaker [[Stokely Carmichael]]'s plane to Louisville was being intentionally delayed by whites. After bottles were thrown by the crowd, the crowd became unruly and police were called. However the small and unprepared police response simply upset the crowd more, which continued to grow. The police, including a captain who was hit in the face by a bottle, retreated, leaving behind a patrol car, which was turned over and burned.

By midnight, rioters had looted stores as far east as Fourth Street, overturned cars and started fires.

Within an hour, Mayor [[Kenneth A. Schmied]] requested 700 [[Kentucky National Guard]] troops and established a citywide curfew. Violence and vandalism continued to rage the next day, but had subdued somewhat by May 29.  Business owners began to return, although troops remained until June 4. Police made 472 arrests related to the riots. Two black teenage rioters had died, and $200,000 in damage had been done.<ref>((cite journal|title="Oh Baby…It's Really Happening:" The Louisville Race Riot of 1968|author=Williams, Kenneth H.|journal=The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society|volume=3|year=1988|pages=57–58))</ref>

The disturbances had a longer-lasting effect.  Most white business owners quickly pulled out or were forced, by the threat of racial violence, out of Parkland and surrounding areas.  Most white residents also left the West End, which had been almost entirely white north of Broadway, from subdivision until the 1960s. The riot would have effects that shaped the image which whites would hold of Louisville's West End, that it was predominantly black.<ref>((cite book|title=Louisville Survey:West Report|pages=37–38))</ref>

==See also==

* [[1968 Washington, D.C. riots]]
* [[Baltimore riot of 1968]]
* [[Bloody Monday]]
* [[History of Louisville, Kentucky]]
* [[List of incidents of civil unrest in the United States]]
* [[List of riots]]
* [[Protests of 1968]]
* [[NAACP in Kentucky]]

==References==
((reflist))

==Further reading==

* ((cite news|publisher=Courier-Journal|date=1968-05-28|title=Guard ordered to Riot Duty As West End Looting Flares))
* ((cite news|publisher=Louisville Times|date=1968-05-28|title=Somebody Threw a Bottle - Then 'Oh Baby, It's Really Happening'|author=Diaz, David))
* ((cite news|publisher=Louisville Times|date=1968-05-29|title=Looting, Vandalism Limited as Curfew Aids Police|author=Keefe, Larry))

==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060910011628/http://www.louisville.edu/a-s/history/tyler/kentuckyriots.html Louisville's Black Power Riot, 1968] Extensive paper on the riots by [[University of Louisville]] professor Bruce M. Tyler


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