On Aug. 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech during a massive civil rights rally at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. This is one of the greatest speeches in American history. Although I don't agree with him on everything, Dr. King is in my "Hall of Fame" (on this blog)
| 1955 | Emmett Till, an African-American teenager from Chicago, was abducted from his uncle's home in Money, Miss., by two white men after he was accused of whistling at a white woman. He was found murdered three days later. | ||||
| 1968 | Police and anti-war
demonstrators clashed in the streets of Chicago as the Democratic National
Convention nominated Hubert H. Humphrey for president.
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