s becauseof their isolation and poverty. By the end of 1966 the federal government was getting fed up with the lack of obedienceby some school districts in the deep south that were refusing to desegregate schools. Theydecided to take action and cut off all federal funding to six more districts bringing the total to 37southern schools without funding. Though losing funding many schools were still segregatingstudents. In Louisiana only 1 in 28 black students attended school with whites, 1 in 31 inMississippi, and only 1 in 42 in Alabama. The Los Angeles ghetto of Watts plunged into anarchy in 1965 after a black man namedMarquette Frye was arrested for drunk driving. After six days of rioting ended a total of 35 weredead, 900 were injured, and there was millions of dollars worth of property damage. A Clevelandghetto broke into rioting after a white bartender denied a glass of ice water to a black man. InNewark, New Jersey some of the most violent race riots broke out after a black cab driver waskilled by white policemen. At the end of the week there were 21 dead, over 1,000 injured, and atleast 1,600 arrested. Property damage was once again in the high millions. By 1967 forty fivewere dead and property damage was up to almost one billion dollars. During the summer of 1967riots intensified in Detroit. By the end of one week 41 were dead, 350 injured, 3,800 arrested,5,000 homeless (mostly blacks), 1,300 buildings completely destroyed, and 2,700 businessesransacked. Property damage reached an astonishing $500 million dollars. Upon a brisk spring night in Memphis, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood on a second storybalcony discussing the next weeks march on Washington with his colleagues. Suddenly a singleshot broke the silence of the night air. Kings co-workers thought it was some kind of bad jokeuntil they saw him lying on the ground in a pool of blood with a bullet hole torn through his neck.In response to the shot, some thirty Memphis police...
