A group of people examine a partially demolished building and the ruins of other structures destroyed during the riots that erupted following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in Chica…

Ms. Shaw was widely involved in civil rights and social issues throughout her life. She described how, as a reporter for the Roosevelt University newspaper, she witnessed the rioting in Grant Park, in…

View shows men in hard hats, probably a clean-up crew, standing near the wreckage of a building destroyed in the riots that erupted in South and West Side neighborhoods following news of Dr. Martin Lu…

View of a crumbling building and debris, including four men in hard hats in the foreground, in the wake of the riots that erupted in South and West Side neighborhoods following news of Dr. Martin Luth…

Two armed National Guardsmen police the area around the Water Tower (visible in the background) around the time of the Chicago Riots that broke out in South and West Side neighborhoods following news…

Armed National Guardsman standing in front of two African American boys around the time of the riots that broke out in South and West Side neighborhoods following news of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s…

John Fitzgerald was a lifelong resident of the Rogers Park community area. He described a typical middle class upbringing in a household that was not political. Mr. Fitzgerald recounts extensive invol…