MLK 50: What did cause the riots
by from on (#3KX7Z)

Fifty years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was gunned down in Memphis, the scars of the riots that followed are only now fully healed in Washington. In other cities, they still aren't. And we still don't know exactly why they happened - or for that matter why the 1960s as a whole saw more rioting than the decades before or since.