Then and now: south side of the 1200 block of H Street NE, Washington,DC

Then and now
Originally uploaded by digitaleffie

(Flickr construction by Digital Effie. The top photo is by the Associated Press.)
Reprinted because of additional content added due to the linking to the entry by DCist and others. (Thank you.)
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Those of you clicking into this entry from other places might want to look at my Flickr collection of additional riot photos. All aren't from DC.

And there is a great book about this time, called Ten Blocks from the White House, which was published by the Washington Post. The book is out of print but available at many branches of the DC Public Library as well as local university libraries and the Kiplinger Library of the Historical Society of Washington.

Also, if you know the Front Page restaurant on Dupont Circle, they have at least one front page from the Evening (Washington) Star posted from something like April 5th, 1968, which features all photos on the cover from rioting on H Street. The Star photographer was probably the original source of the photo that the AP ran, that Effie included in the photo above, which was taken from the recent coverage of H Street in USA Today, "40 years after the riots, King's vision 'unfinished'." (There is also a photo or two in the photo section of the book Dream City, which is a must-read book about how Washington really works.)

Another good recounting is by Sam Smith, and is on the website of his Progressive Review. Check out "Fire; A chapter from 'Multitudes; Memoirs of a Rebel' by Sam Smith" from his website.