August 28, 1833: Slavery was abolished in the U.K. and throughout the British empire. (Photo: Getty)pic.twitter.com/2UqQEvF1Je
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August 28, 1833: Slavery was abolished in the U.K. and throughout the British empire. (Photo: Getty)pic.twitter.com/2UqQEvF1Je
August 28, 1955: Emmett Till, 14, was brutally beaten and shot to death by white men in Mississippi. The trial around his death galvanized the civil rights movement. http://emmetttill.usatoday.com (Photo: AP)pic.twitter.com/agXA10lxQ5
August 28, 1963: Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his iconic “I Have A Dream” speech in Washington, D.C., as the March on Washington became the largest civil rights demonstration the nation’s capital had ever seen. (Photo: AP) http://usat.ly/1c3e6pq #IHaveADreampic.twitter.com/MEDKYyqScl
August 28, 2005: Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Louisiana, and the resulting devastation disproportionately impacted black residents of New Orleans and surrounding areas. http://usat.ly/1JhwOux pic.twitter.com/6QdIufXL7i
August 28, 2008: Sen. Barack Obama became the first black man to win the nomination of a major party for president. http://usat.ly/18kDOlh (Source: @NMAAHC)pic.twitter.com/mxXFNCZ7jq
Sadly, poor impoverished White people didn't want to align with poor impoverished Black people then and they don't now. #MAGA is about blaming 'others' for being poor. Republicans have exploited this fear amongst them for years.
My response did not make any mention of presidential politics. I simply wanted @USAToday to retract their divisiveness when they expressed that yesterday was about black history. Those events shaped the fabric of American history.
It's good to see how far things have come but sadly still a ways to go =/
Black this and black that...how about just Americans isn't that good enough? Dont we all bleed RED???
Be quiet
Never!!!...I live in a FREE country called America...if you want to make me, you have to go to Venezuela
Leftist weasels LOST and will never keep us quiet ever again...we gave you a chance with Obama and you corrupted everything so your chance is GONE!!!
Sadly, this day should b of importance for all Americans not just black America.
“National Breast cancer month should include ALL cancers, not just breast cancers”
Look at this Jenny @JennyCovinton. Our moms used to tell us about these times We overcame then and we are not going back to bowing and scraping.
Nation wide prison strike #August21
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