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Black students take over Willard Straight Hall on the campus of Cornell University to protest racism at the school on this date in 1969.

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POSTED: January 21, 2013, 8:00 am

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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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