Baltimore '68 Riots and Rebirth Collection ( BSR)
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Archival Sources
As part of the ongoing scholarship related to the "Baltimore '68: Riots and Rebirth" project, from time to time reports and documents that are relevant to the events of April 1968 will be linked from this page.
These documents, usually stemming directly from the events and produced by a variety of city, state and other agencies public and private, are a significant part of the history of Baltimore. Many of them have been out of circulation for years, even decades, and a number of them are housed in the archives of UB's Langsdale Library.
If you would like to know more about these documents, contact Thomas Hollowak, associate director for Special Collections, Langsdale Library, at 410.837.4268, or thollowak@ubalt.edu.
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Reports & Documents
A Letter to Ourselves written by William Boucher, the Executive Director of the Greater Baltimore
Committee: Harold Edleston, Director of the Health and Welfare Council; and
Richard Steiner, Director of the Baltimore Urban Renewal and Housing Agency
(BURHA). At the time, it was a pretty groundbreaking and progressive proposal
that Baltimore needed to deal with socio-economic issues of poor people in the
inner city as well as with physical redevelopment/renewal of areas. [the report and supporting documents are contained in two files in the Health & Welfare Collection]
Pre April 1968 Baltimore Riot File
Post April 1968 Baltimore Riot Articles
WMAR-TV Baltimore Riot news footage
Baltimore News American Photographs
Baltimore City Police Department Photographs - Lt. James V. Kelly Collection
Paul J. Lioi, Baltimore City Police Department - Riot Photographs
Ronald W. Parker - National Guard - Photographs
"How Baltimore Prevents Riots" - Reader's Digest, March 1968
Agnew Riot Stand and Black Community 
Baltimore Police Department Reports: 1968 Riots - Lt. James V. Kelly Collection
Baltimore Police Department Newsletter - Lt. James V. Kelly Collection
Baltimore Police Department Insignia - Lt. James V. Kelly Collection
Report of Baltimore Committee on the Administration of Justice Under Emergency Conditions - May 31, 1968
A Report of the Baltimore Civil Disturbance of April, 1968
Report on Baltimore City Disorder Relief & Support Activities, June 15, 1968
Civil Disorder in Baltimore, 1968
Criminal Justice Commission - Police & Judicial Response to the Civil Disorders - April 1968
Maryland Crime Report - "The April 1968 Civil Disturbances"
Jane Motz, Report on Baltimore Civil Disorders - April 1968
Legal Representation for Rioters
Baltimore Examiner - News Articles:
"Mayhem spread quickly in city"
"Riots of '68 a precursor to bigger, better things for city"
Maryland State Archives - "Is Baltimore Burning?"
to access this site: Username - aaco; Password - aaco#
Teaching American History in Maryland - 1968
Alex Csicsek, "Spiro T. Agnew and the Burning of Baltimore"
NPR - All Things Considered, April 4, 1998 · Baltimore Riots
The news of Martin Luther King''s assassination led to riots in many of the nation''s cities. Amy Bernstein reports that today the legacies of that period - poverty, racial discrimination and property damage - still haunt Baltimore.
Gerard P. Gassinger's Riot Diary
Maryland Historical Society Oral history Interview references to 1968 Riots
Baltimore City Civil Rights Legislation
The Wayfarer - Special Issue on Baltimore's Black Leaders, 1967
Urban Studies - Civil Disturbances
CNN - Dr. King's Final Crusade
University of Maryland Law School: Years of Violence: Urban Civil Unrest of the 1960s
Civil Rights Documentation Project
1967 Newark - The Star-Ledger Series