Thursday, 29 August 2013

March on Washington Anniversary and Other Fascinating News on the Web - TIME

newsfeed.time.com - The Fifty Year MarchHere’s Ken Howard, a D.C. student fifty years ago today, when Martin Luther King Jr. gave what was to become one of history’s most famous speeches: “You have to back up and think about what was happening at the time. Nationally, in 1962, you have James Meredith, the first black to attend the University of Mississippi , that was national news. In May 1963, Bull Connor with the dogs and the fire hoses, turning them on people, front-page news.

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