Martin Luther King's assassination.
In this city, Daniel Drayton helped organize an attempt by dozens of slaves to escape aboard the ship Pearl, which was betrayed after winds stalled. In this city, the free black man James Wormley founded a hotel where a precursor to the electoral Compromise of 1877 was hammered out. Many African-Americans here used a tent community called "Resurrection City" as part of the Poor People's Campaign, which was destroyed along with many black businesses on the U Street Corridor in the riots after (*) Martin Luther King's assassination. The black polymath Benjamin Banneker helped survey this city, where gay civil rights leader Bayard Rustin organized a demonstration "for Jobs and Freedom." For 10 points, name this city, where a controversial Marian Anderson concert and Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech were both delivered at the Lincoln Memorial.
In this city, Daniel Drayton helped organize an attempt by dozens of slaves to escape aboard the ship Pearl, which was betrayed after winds stalled.
Washington, DC [or District of Columbia; or DC]