Subject: Afternoon Buzz: Fifty years ago some called D.C. ‘the colored man’s paradise.’ Then paradise erupted.
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Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 20:04:12 +0000

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Fifty years ago some called D.C. ‘the colored man’s paradise.’ Then paradise erupted. <https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/fifty-years-ago-some-called-dc-the-colored-mans-paradise-then-paradise-erupted/2018/03/22/6ae9ec1c-208e-11e8-94da-ebf9d112159c_story.html?utm_term=.882aa0ff9f7e&wpisrc=nl_buzz&wpmm=1>

Despite decades of slavery, segregation and discrimination, Washington was said to be special, a “secret city” walled off from the white world outside. But the city burned after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., on April 4, 1968, and it would take years to rebuild.

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