As the first black to attend the University of Mississippi, James H. Meredith (born 1933) scored one of the earliest important victories against segregation in Mississippi.Born on June 25, 1933, near ...
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Today is Wednesday, June 6, the 157th day of 2007. There are 208 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On June 6, 1944, the "D-Day" invasion of Europe took place during World War II as...
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Today is Saturday, Aug. 18, the 230th day of 2007. There are 135 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Aug. 18, 1587, Virginia Dare became the first child of English parents to be b...
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Today is Thursday, Sept. 20, the 263rd day of 2007. There are 102 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Sept. 20, 1519, Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan and his crew set out ...
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Today is Sunday, Sept. 30, the 273rd day of 2007. There are 92 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Sept. 30, 1846, Boston dentist William Morton used ether as an anesthetic for th...
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Omaha Blues: A Memory Loop, by Joseph Lelyveld. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 226 pages, $22.In 1964, an Ohio rabbi named Arthur Lelyveld went to Hattiesburg, Miss., and started knocking on doors in b...
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George Brooks Sr.PHOENIX (AP) _ The Rev. George Brooks Sr., a longtime civil rights activist in Phoenix who founded a church, served in the state Legislature and lead the Maricopa County NAACP chap...
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James H. Meredith
Today in history - June 6
