Washington, D.C
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...suburbs in Virginia and Maryland. In Apr., 1968, the assassination in Memphis, Tenn., of Martin Luther King , Jr., touched off riots in Washington, and population loss accelerated. The long mayoralties (1980 91, 1995 98) of Marion Barry...