1968
Glenville Riots / MLK assassinated /
Civil Rights Bill / Ford
Foundation Grant
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Race riot in Glenville section of Cleveland involving black nationalists and the police, 8 black and 3 white deaths; Mayor Stokes calls in 3000 National Guard troops; July 23-28.
Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee while there for a protest by sanitation workers.
Civil Rights Bill with non-discriminatory housing provisions.
Ford Foundation grants $520,000 to the Negro Industrial and Economic Union of Cleveland.