Federal troops in gasmasks approached from Hiatt Pl. as fire fighters set up to battle a blaze on Irving St. during the 1968 disturbances.
resistance from white citizens and Central alumni, the school board transferred Central’s students else- where, and moved the African American Cardozo Business High School into Central’s building. A few years later legal school segregation ended. Soon most of the neighborhood’s remaining white residents, and much of the white business capital, had left for the Virginia and Maryland suburbs. Hard times followed, compounded by the riots that began at 14th and U Streets in response to the 1968 assassination of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Many businesses were looted and burned; others closed as their customers fled the neighborhood. The 14th Street corridor was devastated.
Radical activist Angela Davis, right, speaks from the pulpit at All Souls Church, 1974. The Chilean exile group Inti Illimani performed at All Souls in 1974, a year after a coup d’état brought in the Pinochet dictatorship.
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