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  rlgray at 04/04/2008 3:47:39 PM
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  thanks for this article. This is the way I saw it. My home town was on fire.Being there 40 yrs. ago is a part of my history.Thanks for the memories.. Great to remember who you are.
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  rlgray at 04/04/2008 3:45:18 PM
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  really enjoyed reading this article. Remembering all this as it happened. thanks for the stroll back in my history in my home town. I WAS THERE...
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  tootsumi1 at 04/04/2008 10:44:03 AM
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  One month before my 18th birthday, I came of age the day MLK was assassinated. One of the few "lucky" black salesgirls, I had a job at the Lerner's on F Street -- one of the same streets that fell victim to the fires and rioting. As my boyfriend attempted to get me home from work that evening, we were forced to detour all around the city, and at one point, I recall being on the Douglas bridge and watching the city burn around us. I don't think I was ever the same after that evening. Caught between childhood and adulthood, I was shoved -- whether I liked it or not -- into adulthood. After graduating from a local high school that June, I was one of the many who held out in the "A" building of Howard University (and was not even a student there; I went to DC Teachers College) ... but I felt I had to become a part of the struggle. Here we are -- 40 years later -- still in a struggle. It looks different from the one MLK led, but a struggle nonetheless. I'm a resident of a City where the residents are increasingly looking less and less like me; I live in a neighborhood where 50 years ago was the scene of "white flight" ... only to witness the "fliers" coming home. The schools are a mess, and we still have a huge group of people in the nationl's capitol who are disenfranchised. I wonder -- but am only cautiously optimistic -- that I will see Dr. King's dream come alive in my lifetime.
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  mwing at 04/02/2008 11:30:32 AM
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  I can remeber as a kid seeing the the natioanl gauardsmen riding down bladensburg road near the old sears and roebuck
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  mwing at 04/02/2008 11:29:11 AM
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  I can rememeber as a kid seeing the national guard partolling down bladensburd road near the old sears and Roebuck