s "could explode in racial violence this summer" because conditions that caused riots last summer still exist.On June 2, riots begin in the Roxbury section of Boston. More than 60 people are injured, and nearly 100 are arrested. Before the summer is over, riots occur in Neward, Detroit, Milwaukee, and more than 30 other American cities. In Detroit alone, 43 die and 324 are injured.In an historic ruling on June 19, a federal judge orders schools in Washington, D.C. to end de facto segregation by the fall semester.On July 26, King, A. Philip Randolph, Roy Wilkins, and Whitney Young issue a joint statement appealing for an end to the riots, which "have proved ineffective and damaging to the civil cause and the entire nation."The following day, the president appoints Governor Kerner of Illinois and Mayor Lindsay of New York to head a riot commission to investigate the cause of disorders and recommend means of preventing or containing them in the future.On November 7, Carl Strokes is elected mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, the first black elected mayor of a major U.S. city.On November 27, King announces the inception of the Poor People's Campaign, focusing on jobs and freedom for poor people -black and white.1968On February 12, sanitation workers go on strike in Memphis, Tennessee.King leads a demonstration in Memphis on March 28 in support of the striking sanitation workers. When the march becomes violent, one black is killed and more than fifty people are injured. King leaves Memphis distressed over the violence. He returns April 3 in the hopes of leading a peaceful march. He tells a crowd at the Memphis Masonic Temple, "I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land."The following day, April 4, Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated in the balcony of the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis. He dies at St. Joseph's Hospital of a gunshot wound in the neck. Rioting in Washington's black sectio...
