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Remembering the '63 March

POSTED: August 28, 2013, 11:00 am

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On a recent television appearance on "Up with Steve Kornacki" on MSNBC, NorthStarNews.com Executive Editor Walter Fields asserts that on August 28, 1963 civil rights leadership made power uncomfortable in the nation's capital.





Source: MSNBC

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