This week's chaos on the streets of Baltimore has been decades in the making.
Violence erupted in the city on Monday after days of largely peaceful
protests over the death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man who
recently died of injuries he sustained while in police custody. But
Gray's death was just the latest point on a timeline stretching back
generations, one that encompasses all manner of racial inequity and
human indignity.
On April 6, 1968, just two days after the assassination of Martin
Luther King Jr., riots broke out in Baltimore. When the dust settled on
April 7, three people were dead, 70 were injured and more than 100 had
been arrested, and numerous buildings were burned and destroyed, according to Baltimore magazine.
