Table of Contents

Acknowledgments. Prologue. 1 King, Johnson, and the Terrible, Glorious Thirty-first Day of March. 2 April 4: Before the Bullet. 3 April 4: The News Arrives. 4 April 4: U and Fourteenth. 5 April 5: Midnight Interlude. 6 April 5: "Any Man's Death Diminishes Me". 7 April 5: "Once That Line Has Been Crossed". 8 April 5: "Official Disorder on Top of Civil Disorder". 9 April 5: The Occupation of Washington. 10 April 5: "There Are No Ghettos in Chicago". 11 April 6: Roadblocks. 12 April 6: An Eruption in Baltimore. 13 April 7: Palm Sunday. 14 April 8: Bluff City on Edge. 15 April 9: A Country Rent Asunder. 16 April 10 and 11: Two Speeches. 17 A Summer Postscript. 18 1969 and After. Notes. Index.

About the Author

Clay Risen, formerly an editor at the New Republic, is the founding managing editor of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas. He's also written for Smithsonian, Slate, the Atlantic, and the New York Times Sunday Magazine.

Reviews

"...Risen provides us with a gripping account of the riots...This is a solid and considerate account of a particular week" (Oxford Times, August 6th 2009)