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04Apr
2016

This Week in History – Martin Luther King, Jr. is Assassinated

Photo: Lorraine Hotel (Memphis, TN), April 4, 1968. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed outside the Lorraine Motel where he was staying; he had come there to support sanitation workers in their strike.  Today the ...

29Feb
2016

This Week in History – Civil Rights Act of 1875

Featured Photo: Civil Rights Act of 1875 Declared Unconstitutional. In 1883, The United States Supreme Court ruled that the Civil Rights act of 1875, forbidding discrimination in hotels, trains, and other public spaces, was ...

30Nov
2015

This Week in History – The Montgomery Bus Boycott

History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols – boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs. Symbolic action on whatever scale – from the Montgomery Bus Boycott to wearing a simple wristband – is ...

19Jan
2015

Martin Luther King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”

Following is an open letter written on April 16, 1963, by Martin Luther King, Jr.  The letter defends the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism, arguing that people have a moral responsibility to break unjust laws. The ...

25Aug
2014

This Week in History: “I Have A Dream”

            West Palm Beach criminal defense lawyer Kelly V. Landers recalls events of historical significance that occurred this week in past years.   On August 24, 1932, Amelia Earhart ...