today in black history

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The 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1870, beginning the long struggle for voting rights for Black Americans.

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The American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) documentary on the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers strike; the last advocacy campaign of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in April 1968.





Source: AFSCME

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