More than 1,000 stores and businesses were torched, damaged, looted or destroyed. Fifty years later, the singularity of what happened in the days after the assassination of the civil rights leader remains.
Source: Sun
The fire both times: Baltimore riots after Martin Luther King's death 50 years ago left scars that remain
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