📖 The Night America Burned

It's the evening of April 4, 1968. Martin Luther King Jr is standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. A single rifle shot kills him instantly. He is 39 years old. Within hours, riots erupt in over 100 American cities. Washington DC burns so badly that troops are deployed to protect the White House. In two days, 39 people are killed, 2,500 injured, and 21,000 arrested. The man who preached non-violence dies — and his death unleashes the most violent week in American domestic history since the Civil War. What happened next? And what, ultimately, did the Civil Rights movement achieve?