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Most HISD curbside summer meals sites to close for two weeks beginning Friday, July 3
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Deon Tedder Trained For Service In House Dist. 109
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(1963) Lyndon B. Johnson, “Address Before a Joint Session of Congress"
On November 27, 1963 just five days after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, newly installed President Lyndon Baines Johnson addresses Congress for the first time.   His address appears
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1963
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Kansas City Mayor Called N-Word In Text Saying He ‘Should Swing From A Tree’
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Jack Schlossberg on President Obama and political courage
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1961
Bess appointed acting Chief of Staff
President David Granger has approved the appointment of Colonel Godfrey Bess to perform the functions of Chief of Staff as Brigadier Patrick West proceeds on pre-retirement leave, the Ministry of the Presidency has
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Earl Warren
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June 12, 1967: U.S. Supreme Court Invalidated Laws Prohibiting Interracial Marriage
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(1995) William Jefferson Clinton, “the Job of Ending Discrimination in This Counrt is Not Over”
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Malcolm X born in Omaha, Nebraska
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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(1966) Stokely Carmichael, “Black Power”
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