![]() ![]() The events turned violent though when Kansas City Police, who had been monitoring the situation from the start, sprayed some of the protesters with mace. “They literally talked me into parking my car and getting out and walking with them.” “That struck me as an honorable thing for young people to be trying to do,” Bohannon says. So hundreds of students at Manual High School, Lincoln High School, and Central High School walked out in protest. That day, the Kansas City, Kansas, school district canceled classes to honor King, but schools in Kansas City, Missouri, had not. "A block or so from the school, I saw a bunch of kids outside, and I asked them, I said, 'What's going on?'" Bohannon remembers. After working the graveyard shift, he drove his younger brother to class at Manual High School. On that day, Lee Bohannon was a 23-year-old employee at Tension Envelope Company. Nothing happened until Apthe day that King’s funeral was nationally televised from Atlanta, Georgia. Unlike most major cities, Kansas City was relatively quiet for nearly five days. His death set off a wave of protests and riots in more than 100 cities across the country - now called the Holy Week Uprising. ![]() ![]() was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. UMKC University Libraries A small crowd marches down the street in Kansas City on April 9, 1968.ĭr. ![]()
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