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Colts players unsung heroes of ’68 riots
- As hundreds of National Guard troops and police officers tried to restore calm to Baltimore in the riotous days that followed the April 4, 1968, assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Lenny Moore and John Mackey decided to make sandwiches. Bologna sandwiches to be exact. Hundreds of them. And they weren’t for any picnic.
- As hundreds of National Guard troops and police officers tried to restore calm to Baltimore in the riotous days that followed the April 4, 1968, assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Lenny Moore and John Mackey decided to make sandwiches. Bologna sandwiches to be exact. Hundreds of them. And they weren’t for any picnic.
40 years later, city takes a hard look at race riots
- Christina Ralls’ mother had never spoken about the 1968 riots that destroyed her East Baltimore home.
- Christina Ralls’ mother had never spoken about the 1968 riots that destroyed her East Baltimore home.
‘It really felt like the entire city was on fire’
- “The first thing they did — at the corner of Milton Avenue on the 1200 block, it was then an A&P supermarket — they threw a firebomb and went in the store and just started disrupting it. The next place to get hit used to be a Sears on North Avenue and Central. They had this gorgeous plate glass window, where the courthouse is now, and they had already decorated it for the summer, and they had this beautiful sailboat in the window. The rioters tried to bring that sailboat out of the window and they couldn’t. Levinson and Klein had a big furniture warehouse, and they broke into that, too. Once it erupted here, it went across town and started moving.”
After 1968 riots, Baltimore 'not worth it' for some residents
- As a 29-year-old pharmacy manager, Theodore Sophocleus ignored calls from his bosses to close the Read’s drugstore at Light and Cross streets as riots raged across the city.
