In April 1967, one year before his assassination, Martin Luther King Jr. made a prediction.
Cities from Los Angeles to Chicago to Washington were “powder kegs,” he told reporters gathered in New York to cover his participation in an anti-war rally. “I’m sorry to say this, but the intolerable conditions which brought about racial violence last summer still exist.”
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