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Defend America on Friday, August 28, 2009 1:25:05 PM
August 28,
1955
The death of Emmett Till
While
visiting family in Money, Mississippi, 14-year-old Emmett Till, an
African American from Chicago, is brutally murdered for flirting with a
white woman four days earlier. His assailants--the white woman's
husband and her brother--made Emmett carry a 75-pound cotton-gin fan to
the bank of the Tallahatchie River and ordered him to take off his
clothes. The two men then beat him nearly to death, gouged out his eye,
shot him in the head, and then threw his body, tied to the cotton-gin
fan with barbed wire, into the river.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=5297
August 28,
1963
King speaks to March on Washington
On
the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., the African
American civil rights movement reaches its high-water mark when Martin
Luther King, Jr., speaks to about 250,000 people attending the March on
Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The demonstrators--black and white,
poor and rich--came together in the nation's capital to demand voting
rights and equal opportunity for African Americans and to appeal for an
end to racial segregation and discrimination.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=7003
August 28,
1968
Protests at Democratic National Convention in Chicago
On
this day in 1968, at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago,
tens of thousands of Vietnam War protesters battle police in the
streets, while the Democratic Party falls apart over an internal
disagreement concerning its stance on Vietnam. Over the course of 24
hours, the predominant American line of thought on the Cold War with
the Soviet Union was shattered.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=52776
1981 - John Hinckley, Jr. pled innocent to the charge of attempting
to kill U.S. President Ronald Reagan. Hinckley was later
acquitted by reason of insanity.