Most of 14th Street Is Gone

"Left behind were hundreds of burned-out buildings, whole blocks that looked as though they had been bombed into oblivion." These words, written by the Washington Post''s Leonard Downie Jr., do not describe a war zone but rather the nation''s capital reeling in the wake of the riots of April 1968. In the devastating aftermath of Martin Luther King''s assassination, a community already plagued by p...