This day in history - August 28
Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 8:33 pm
1609 - Henry Hudson, the English captain of the Dutch ship Half Moon, arrived in Delaware Bay on his first exploration of North America.
1955 - Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago, was murdered in Money, Mississippi, after he was accused of whistling at a white woman. The murder was a motivating event of the civil rights movement.
1955 - I was born.
1963 - Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech in one of the largest demonstrations ever to take place in the U.S., at the Lincoln Memorial.
1968 - Police and anti-war demonstrators rioted in Grant Park in downtown Chicago and outside the Democratic National Convention in the Conrad Hilton (across Michigan Avenue). I remember watching on TV, with the demonstrators chanting, “The whole world is watching.”
That week was also the only time I saw with my own eyes armed National Guardsmen and barbed-wire barricades.
- Jim
1955 - Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago, was murdered in Money, Mississippi, after he was accused of whistling at a white woman. The murder was a motivating event of the civil rights movement.
1955 - I was born.
1963 - Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech in one of the largest demonstrations ever to take place in the U.S., at the Lincoln Memorial.
1968 - Police and anti-war demonstrators rioted in Grant Park in downtown Chicago and outside the Democratic National Convention in the Conrad Hilton (across Michigan Avenue). I remember watching on TV, with the demonstrators chanting, “The whole world is watching.”
That week was also the only time I saw with my own eyes armed National Guardsmen and barbed-wire barricades.
- Jim
