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How many cities did the United States have riots after Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination
Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
King assassination riots Mass racial violence in the United States Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. 1968 Kansas City, Missouri riot 1968 Washington, D.C. riots
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The King assassination riots, also known as the Holy Week Uprising, was a wave of civil disturbance which swept the United States following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 4, 1968. Some of the biggest riots took place in Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Louisville, Kansas City, and Chicago. 
 Orangeburg massacre; Orangeburg, South Carolina - February King assassination riots: 125 cities in April and May, in response to the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. including: *Baltimore riot of 1968; Baltimore Maryland *1968 Washington, D.C. riots; Washington, D.C. *1968 New York City riot; New York City, New York *West Side Riots; Chicago, Illinois *Louisville riots of 1968; Louisville, Kentucky *Hill District MLK riots; Pittsburgh, PA *Summit, Illinois Race Riot at Argo High School, September 1968  
Colleagues of Dr. King in the civil rights movement called for a non-violent response to the assassination, to honor his most deeply held beliefs. James Farmer, Jr. said:The more militant Stokely Carmichael, however, called for more forceful action, saying:"White America killed Dr. King last night. She made a whole lot easier for a whole lot of black people today. There no longer needs to be intellectual discussions, black people know that they have to get guns. White America will live to cry that she killed Dr. King last night. It would have been better if she had killed Rap Brown and/or Stokely Carmichael, but when she killed Dr. King, she lost. "Despite the urging of many leaders, the assassination led to a nationwide wave of riots in more than 100 cities. After the assassination, the city of Memphis quickly settled the strike on favorable terms to the sanitation workers.
The 1968 Kansas City riot was a riot that occurred in Kansas City, Missouri in April 1968. Kansas City became one of thirty-seven cities in the United States to be the subject of rioting after the assassination Martin Luther King, Jr.. The rioting in Kansas City did not erupt on April 4, like other cities of the United States affected directly by the assassination of King, but rather on April 9 after local events within the city. 
Six days of race riots erupted in Washington, D.C. following the April 4, 1968 assassination of Civil Rights Movement-leader Martin Luther King, Jr. A wave of civil disorder affected at least 110 U.S. cities; Washington, along with Chicago and Baltimore, were among the most affected. 