Racial segregation in public places in the US legally ended with the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
But many African Americans were still forced to live and work in second-class conditions.
And the simmering anger led to widespread riots, after Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated in 1968.
Al Jazeera's Rosiland Jordan met with a couple who witnessed the violence in Washington.
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A look at the riots following MLK's assassination
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