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IN THE NEWS. This clipping is from Page 3 of the Spokane Daily Chronicle April 6, 1968. The photo caption read: "These are some of the 150 persons, most of them college students, who marched through downtown Spokane streets yesterday afternoon in a show of sympathy for the death of Martin Luther King Jr. The participants, shown here near Second and Cowley, marched on sidewalks from the Calvary Baptist Church at Third and Cowley to the Lincoln Statue at Main and Monroe, where they heard several brief addresses." Representatives of Fort Wright College initiated the sympathy march.

In this report

Clarence Freeman

Alvin Pitmon

Martin Luther King Jr.'s final speech

More photographs

In the paper

Looking back: Editorials from the past

Off-site Links

1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike chronology

Excerpts from King's speeches

Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change

King's assassination
and Spokane's reaction
April 5, 1968: Shortly after midnight, a group of youths throws rocks through the windows of 16 businesses in the East Central neighborhood. The businesses are not looted.

When a window is broken later that evening at Gaffner's Restaurant, 701 E. Third, police take a black man to the station and question him. A group of black youths are at the police station to check on the man. He is released and the youths leave the station with him.

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