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Night Walk in Harlem
Kremen, Bennett | April 22, 1968 issue

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When the news hit that civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. had been shot dead, the author's friends and neighbors living in a white area far downtown from the convulsions they imagined going on in Harlem were shocked and dismayed. But for many, sympathy soon gave way to a fear more intense than they had ever shown before, even in times of great rioting. The long-expected bloodletting of masses of whites had certainly arrived, or so the sentiment went. But despite ghetto riots, Negro retaliation has never really come off.

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RIOTS; DEATH; AFRICAN Americans; WHITES; KING, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968; UNITED States
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