A nation on fire: America in the wake of the King assassination

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