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St. Louis History: April 4th, 1968 City Jail Riot

St. Louis History: April 4th, 1968 City Jail Riot

By Anti-State STL on 2014/01/19

  The article below was originally published in the now-defunct St. Louis Globe-Democrat the day after MLK’s murder. The second article is an excerpt from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, containing information about vandalism and arson that took place around the city that night. Both articles use the horrifically outdated term “Negro” to refer to people […]

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