Aleut women from the Pribilof Islands Program wrote a petition about the dangerous internment camp conditions during World War II.
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Black educator, baseball player, and civil rights activist Octavius V. Catto was murdered by a white supremacist on election day.
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Che Guevara was killed by U.S. military backed-Bolivian forces, working with the CIA.
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Wangari Maathai was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her work on the environment and founded the Greenbelt Movement.
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The United States and United Kingdom began the war in Afghanistan.
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Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, was beaten, robbed, and left to die.
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Henry E. Hayne was the first Black student to be accepted to the University of South Carolina’s medical school, a bold act which encouraged other Black students to apply. By 1875, Black men comprised the majority of the student body.
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Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer, a civil rights activist, was born in Montgomery County, Mississippi.
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The first Colored Convention in Maine was an opportunity for northern Black abolitionists to organize and strategize for racial justice and the freedom of those still enslaved throughout the South.
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The cover-up of the Iran-Contra scandal began to unravel when Eugene Hasenfus was captured by Nicaraguan troops.
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Burglund students walked out in response to the expulsions of their classmates and the murder of Herbert Lee.
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The New Orleans Tribune was launched and published daily in French and English by Louis Charles Roudanez.
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Student demonstrators and other civilians were killed by the military and police in Mexico in advance of the 1968 Olympic Games.
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Under the orders of U.S.-backed Dominican dictator President Rafael Trujillo, the execution of more than 20,000 Haitians began in what is now known as the Parsley Massacre at Massacre River.
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Abolitionists freed a man captured under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 in Syracuse, New York.
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Black farmers were massacred in Elaine, Arkansas for their efforts to fight for better pay and higher cotton prices. A white mob shot at them, and the farmers returned fire in self-defense. Estimates range from 100-800 killed, and 67 survivors were indicted for inciting violence.
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A decade before the March on Washington, a group of Black women known as the Sojourners for Truth and Justice gathered in Washington D.C. to advocate for their rights.
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Conscientious objectors began a hunger strike at Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary.
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