On this day in 1921, the Second Pan African Congress began its deliberations meeting in three cities: London, Brussels and Paris. People of African descent attended from across the United States, Central and South America, the Caribbean, Europe, Asia and Africa.
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On this day in 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave the I Have A Dream speech at the March on Washington in front of 250,000 people at the Lincoln Memorial.
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Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old visiting from Chicago, was kidnapped and murdered by two White men in Money, MS because he dared to speak to a white woman.
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