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"The US civil rights movement's most famous and effective leader, who had adopted Mahatma Gandhi's principle of nonviolence and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, was shot dead in Memphis, Tennessee. . . . The news of King's death caused a storm of grief and rage. In riots in Washington, DC, and other cities, blacks from the ghettos went on a rampage, looting and burning." [Furtado: 1001 Days]