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gopiscrap

(23,757 posts)
Wed Aug 28, 2013, 01:27 PM Aug 2013

As we spend the day commemorating Dr. King's Speech let also remember the others who gave their

lives for civil rights....please add to my list!

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King
Senator Robert Kennedy
Medger Evers
Chaney, Schwerner and Goodman
Malcom X
Those killed in the Greensboro KKK massacre
Those killed at the Edmund Pettus Bridge

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As we spend the day commemorating Dr. King's Speech let also remember the others who gave their (Original Post) gopiscrap Aug 2013 OP
Don't forget JustAnotherGen Aug 2013 #1
Yes absolutely gopiscrap Aug 2013 #2

JustAnotherGen

(31,816 posts)
1. Don't forget
Wed Aug 28, 2013, 01:37 PM
Aug 2013

The four little girls - who did nothing wrong.

And the little boy Emmett Till. . .


They had their lives stolen away by murderous sobs - but they were here. Once upon time they were here and lucky us . . . that could never happen in America today - nudge nudge.

gopiscrap

(23,757 posts)
2. Yes absolutely
Wed Aug 28, 2013, 01:39 PM
Aug 2013

in fact I think the Birmingham Church bombing was one of the seminal moments in changing the hearts of the US people

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