African-American history
The legacy of Benjamin J. Davis
September 5, 2003**See below: “The making of a Communist” by Benjamin J. Davis ** This is the centennial of the birth of a former New York City Council member from Harlem and a remarkable African-American leader: Benjamin J....
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Memphis 1968: We remember
April 3, 2003An assassin’s bullet felled the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 4, 1968. King had come to Memphis to support a strike by the city’s sanitation workers. (See related story below)
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