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Culture & lifestyle

The Kerner Report, a groundbreaking 1968 study of racism in America, was ignored by the president who ordered it

Note that these stories are presented as they were written in 1968. Some of the wording, such as the use of the term “Negro,” reflects

1960s

Martin Luther King Jr’s assassination: The shooting & aftermath of Dr King’s death (1968)

Dr. Martin Luther King, Nobel Peace Prize winner who made nonviolence his chief weapon in the fight for civil rights, was shot to death in 1968. His assassination triggered violence across the nation. Find out more here.

1960s

Whites have no reason to be surprised by civil rights movement (1968)

Original Editor’s note from 1968: This article by the noted author James Baldwin… is an attempt to explain to whites the militant Negro’s reaction to ‘black power,’ as well as the Negro revolution now in progress. It is bitter, but not devoid of hope.

1960s

Birth of the sit-in movement, 10 years on (1970)

There’s no sign proclaiming the FW Woolworth lunch counter here as the birthplace, 10 years ago today, of the sit-in movement that brought a new way of community life to the dual service and segregated South of the 1960s.

1960s

Martin Luther King Jr’s ‘I have a dream’ speech (1963)

Martin Luther King’s speech (video) “I have a dream” by the Rev Dr Martin Luther King, Jr, President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference March on Washington