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5 days ago · As the youngest marcher in the 1965 voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Albama, Lynda Blackmon Lowery proved that young adults can be heroes. Jailed eleven times before her fifteenth birthday, Lowery fought alongside Martin Luther King, Jr. for the rights of African-Americans.
3 days ago · Southern Christian Leadership Conference leaders responded to Jackson's murder by organizing a march from Selma to Montgomery, which was resisted by then-governor George Wallace and local and ...
2 days ago · The term Trail of Tears invokes the collective suffering those people experienced, although it is most commonly used in reference to the removal experiences of the Southeast Indians generally and the Cherokee nation specifically. The physical trail consisted of several overland routes and one main water route and, by passage of the Omnibus ...
2 days ago · Selena Quintanilla Perez [1] ( Latin American Spanish pronunciation: [seˈlena kintaˈniʝa ˈpeɾes]; née Quintanilla; April 16, 1971 – March 31, 1995), known professionally as Selena, was an American singer. Referred to as the "Queen of Tejano Music", her contributions to music and fashion made her one of the most celebrated Mexican ...
2 days ago · 2020-08-28 Colon cancer: 1 Character written out as having returned to his own universe. Diana Rigg: Mrs Pumphrey All Creatures Great and Small: 2 2020-09-10 Cancer: 1 Character recast; taken over by Patricia Hodge. Archie Lyndhurst: Ollie Coulton So Awkward: 6 2020-10-01 Brain hemorrhage caused by acute lymphoblastic leukemia 6 Character ...
3 days ago · My Lai Massacre, mass killing of as many as 500 unarmed villagers by U.S. soldiers in the hamlet of My Lai on March 16, 1968, during the Vietnam War. Charlie Company
1 day ago · On June 12, 2020, Netflix released 8:46, a 27-minute and 20-second video of newly recorded stand-up by Chappelle on the YouTube channel "Netflix Is a Joke". The private event was held outdoors on June 6, 2020, in Yellow Springs, Ohio , [101] where audience members observed social distancing rules and wore masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19 .
