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Aug. 28—As Martin Luther King Jr. addressed perhaps 250,000 people spread out before the steps of the Lincoln Monument 60 years ago today, he began with that most American of topics: money. A ...
President Obama speaks at the 50th Anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery marches Video of President Obama's speech. On March 7, 2015, President of the United States Barack Obama delivered a speech at Edmund Pettus Bridge to mark the 50th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery marches on the subject of race relations within the United States.
The Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974 (ECOA), signed by President Gerald Ford 50 years ago on Oct. 28, 1974, changed that. It prevented creditors from discriminating against an applicant ...
It has been 60 years since Kennedy fell to an assassin’s bullets on Nov. 22, 1963, in Dallas. Like most Americans, Oklahomans who are old enough to remember that day do so like it was yesterday.
1952 – The debut of the Today show on NBC, originally hosted by Dave Garroway is the fourth longest running talk show on television. 1952 – ANZUS Treaty enters into force; 1952 – Immigration and Nationality Act; 1952 – In the United States presidential election, Dwight D. Eisenhower elected as president, Richard Nixon elected as vice ...
The 1960s (pronounced "nineteen-sixties", shortened to the "' 60s" or the "Sixties") was a decade that began on January 1, 1960, and ended on December 31, 1969. [1]While the achievements of humans being launched into space, orbiting Earth, perform spacewalk and walking on the Moon extended exploration, the Sixties are known as the "countercultural decade" in the United States and other Western ...
Tuck Langland poses Thursday, June 13, 2024, with the photo and maquette he used to create the sculpture of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh that is in downtown ...
In 1968, a series of protests at Columbia University in New York City were one among the various student demonstrations that occurred around the globe in that year.The Columbia protests erupted over the spring of that year after students discovered links between the university and the institutional apparatus supporting the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War, as well as their concern ...