历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-03-21（在线收听） |
March 21st, 1965Civil rights demonstrators led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. begin a march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. It happens weeks after marchers pushing for black voting rights in the South are attacked in Selma. The marches lead to the passage of the voting rights act months later. 1960In South Africa, police fire on a crowd of blacks in what becomes known as the Sharpeville massacre. Some 70 people are killed and more than 180 wounded during this bloody chapter in that country’s apartheid years.
1989Randall Dale Adams is released from a Texas prison following a dozen years behind bars for a crime he did not commit. Adam’s conviction for killing a police officer was overturned after the documentary “The Thin Blue Line” challenged the evidence.
And 1685Composer and organist Johann Sebastian Bach is born in Germany.
Today in History, March 21st, Ross Simpson, the Associated Press. |
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