Tag Archive for ‘Martin Luther King’
Today in History: Murder in Mississippi
Did Mississippi Burning really happen? On June 21, 1964, three young civil rights workers were murdered in Philadelphia, Mississippi. Their bodies were discovered a few weeks later. Here’s is the original New York Times story about the crime: http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0621.html#article If Hollywood gets its way, the civil rights movement was saved when Gene Hackman and Willem [...]
Ordering Coffee Changes the World
Never underestimate the power of four teenagers.
Fifty years ago, a deliberate act of disobedience by four college kids shook America.
Today In History: Don’t Ride the Bus
A black seamstress would not budge on December 1, 1955. And all America shook. History is taught as the record of presidents, kings and generals. But sometimes it is the extraordinary story of an “ordinary” person that history must tell. On December 1, 1955, one woman’s act of defiance changed history. But it wouldn’t be [...]
Don’t Know Much About the Birmingham Bombings
September 15, like September 11, deserves to be remembered. On this day in 1963, a murderous bombing took the lives of innocent Americans –four children. The terrorist bombers were also Americans –members of the Ku Klux Klan. In recording the bombing 20 years later, Howell Raines once wrote, In the mindlessness of its evil, the [...]
TODAY IN HISTORY: “Dream Day”
I know there is a Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, honoring the civil rights leader on his birthday. But maybe that honor should have been set on this date instead. On August 28, 1963, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave the “I Have a Dream Speech” to a crowd of more than 200,000 people [...]
