"If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon’s, but between patriotism and intelligence on one side and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other." -President Ulysses S. Grant
Juneteenth, 1968 — 50,000 Mass at Lincoln Memorial: Marchers ‘Still Have A Dream,’ Demand End to U.S. Poverty
“‘The question is not whether we will be efficacious in provoking Congress to act,’ the Rev. Theodore Seamons, pastor of Woodbridge Methodist Church said. ‘Nine months after the summer of 1967, in which 85 died and 1,600 were wounded and millions of dollars of property lost, 12 weeks after the issuance of the federal report, which condemned white racism and gave 160 suggestions for action, a few weeks since Dr. Martin Luther King was murdered… The organization of the delegation to the Solidarity Day program of the Poor People’s March Wednesday say they are involved in this effort because ‘it’s something we must do.'”
June 15, 1968 — Tampa Bay Times
June 19, 1968 — Longview Daily News
June 19, 1968 — The Spokesman Review
June 19, 1968 — The Gazette
June 19, 1968 — Daily News
June 19, 1968 — The Courier-Post
June 19, 1968 — The News Palladium
June 19, 1968 — The Courier Journal
June 19, 1968 — The Town Talk
June 20, 1968 — The Miami Herald
June 20, 1968 — Daily News
June 20, 1968 — Democrat and Chronicle
June 20, 1968 — El Paso Times
June 20, 1968 — The Miami Herald
June 20, 1968 — The Miami News
June 20, 1968 — The Daily Item
June 20, 1968 — The Boston Globe
June 20, 1968 — The Evening Sun
June 20, 1968 — The Courier
June 20, 1968 — The Sacramento Bee
June 20, 1968 — The Marion Star
June 20, 1968 — The Morning Call
June 20, 1968 — Star Gazette
June 20, 1968 — The Edwardsville Intelligencer
June 20, 1968 — Tampa Bay Times
June 21, 1968 — The Daily Journal
June 21, 1968 — Fairbanks Daily News Miner
June 21, 1968 — The La Cross Tribune
June 23, 1968 — The Palm Beach Post
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