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 Happy birthday Martin Luther King Jr. |
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Jan 15, 1929: It's the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. Born in Atlanta, Georgia to Reverend Martin Luther King Sr. and Alberta Williams King, as "Michael King," his father, who changed his own name from "Michael to Martin Luther," is quoted as saying that the name "Michael," was incorrectly recorded.
Martin Luther King's birthday is observed as a F... |
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| Duluth Lynchings |
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Jun 15, 1920: Three black circus workers Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson and Isaac McGhie were lynched by a mob in Duluth Minnesota. Rumors had circulated in Duluth that six African Americans had raped a white girl. A physician's examination subsequently found no evidence of rape or assault. The killings shocked the country, particularly for their having occurred in the northern United States, al... |
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| Civil Rights Restoration Act |
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Mar 22, 1988: United States Congress passes the Civil Rights Restoration Act, which expands the reach of non-discrimination laws within private institutions receiving federal funds, by overriding President Ronald Reagan’s veto.... |
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| Jimmy Carter wins Nobel Prize |
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Oct 11, 2002: On this day in 2002, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize "for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development."
Carter, a peanut farmer from Georgia, served one term as U.S. president between 1977 and 1981. One of his ke... |
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| The U.S. Civil Rights Movement |
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April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. is fatally shot while standing on the balcony outside his second-story room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
The civil rights leader was in Memphis to support a sanitation workers' strike and was on his way to dinner when a bullet struck him in the jaw and severed his spinal cord. King was pronounced dead after his arrival at a Memphis ... |
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