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In Sharpeville, South Africa, police opened fire and killed 69 people at a peaceful demonstration against the apartheid "pass laws", on 21 March, 1960. This led to the United Nations proclaiming that day each year the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968) was a Nobel Laureate Baptist minister and African American civil rights activist. He organized and led marches for the right to vote, desegregation, fair hiring, and other basic civil rights. Most of these rights were successfully enacted into United States law with the passage of the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. He is perhaps most famous for his "I Have A Dream" speech, given in front of the Lincoln Memorial during the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. He is regarded as one of the greatest leaders and heroes in America's history, and in the modern history of nonviolence.
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Mississippi Burning (1988): directed by Alan Parker and starring Gene Hackman & Willem Dafoe. “1964. When America was at war with itself”.
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99: the number of Aboriginal people who died while held in Australian State and Territory gaols between 1 January 1980 and 31 May 1989.
http://www.naa.gov.au/Publications/fact_sheets/fs112.html
You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity. (Bobby Seale)
Black or White by Michael Jackson
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Enid Blyton was a well-know writer of children’s books. She has been accused, however, of including racist themes in her writing, more specifically in the Noddy books, where the anti-heroes were originally Golliwogs.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/a779781
August 28, 1963: Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his most famous speech, the identifying phrase of which was "I Have a Dream". He delivered it on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial as part of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in Washington D.C. It speaks powerfully and eloquently of King's desire for a future where blacks and whites would coexist harmoniously.
Audio and text of speech: History and Politics Out Loud
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