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In April 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. would be assassinated in Memphis. Riots would break out in cities across America, and Baltimore was no exception. Faye Belt, who was just a teenager at the time, remembers walking through a cornfield that connected Crownsville’s campus to her family’s backyard, and hearing her sister, Frederica, shout from a window, “They shot Martin Luther King!”
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