The1968 Pittsburgh riots were a series of urban disturbances that erupted inPittsburgh on April 5, 1968, following theassassination of Martin Luther King. Pittsburgh,along with 110 other cities, burned for several days and 3,600 National Guardsmen were needed to quell the disorder.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

The neighborhoods most impacted were theHill District,North Side, andHomewood. More than one hundred businesses were either vandalized or looted with arsonists setting 505 fires.^{[6][7][8][9][10]}

One person was killed and thirty-six were injured.^{[11][12][13][14][15]}

After six days, order was finally restored on April 11, with property damage surpassing $600,000 (equivalent to $5.43 million in 2024). One thousand arrests were made by law enforcement. Many of the neighborhoods impacted never fully recovered in the following decades.^{[16][17][18][19][20]}

• List of incidents of civil unrest in the United States

• 1964 Philadelphia Riot
• 1969 York Riot

• King assassination riots
• Riots and civil disorder in Pittsburgh
• 1960s in Pittsburgh
• April 1968 in the United States

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