Those 1968 riots changed the city of Trenton forever. In my opinion, the town never recovered from the incredibly senseless looting and destruction of public and personal property, all in the name of avenging the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King by a deranged racist animal. Why the city was blamed for that dastardly act is beyond reason. However, the city we all knew and loved never fully recovered from the senseless looting and burning which the town endured. 
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Saturday, June 05, 2010
1968: THE TRENTON RIOTS
Those 1968 riots changed the city of Trenton forever. In my opinion, the town never recovered from the incredibly senseless looting and destruction of public and personal property, all in the name of avenging the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King by a deranged racist animal. Why the city was blamed for that dastardly act is beyond reason. However, the city we all knew and loved never fully recovered from the senseless looting and burning which the town endured.
this was the beginning of the end of trenton
ReplyDeleteyea.. I agree..I remember the day back then..and since that time..it wasnt the same..too bad WFH
ReplyDeleteWhen I left Yardville for Grad School, in 69, I sold our house on Lakeview Ct, to a guy from Trenton, who was near the rioting and burning of houses on his block.
ReplyDeleteWhat was life in trenton before the riots? My family is from trenton, lived all over from north trenton, da burg, to South trenton right at franklin park on woodland. And even after I heard certain parts of trenton(excluding downtown and north) were still a nice place to live after the riots until the around mid 90's.r I guess im just asking what was life like, how did the enrgy of the city feel? Now you go into trenton and you feel like you have to be aware of everything around you because you don't know what can happen. Parts of if not all of the burg is not nice and it's now flowing down into the franklin park area. But in the 70's and before what was trenton like Is trenton really as bad as it seems. It's horrible because I hear great things about trentons past.
ReplyDeleteI was attending Grice the year the riots broke out. My father would not permit us to attend school for a couple of days.
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