历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-08-28

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Martin Luther King, Jr. caps a major civil rights march in Washington with a speech for the ages at the Lincoln Memorial. “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today.”

1968.

In Chicago, Police and anti-Vietnam war protesters clash in the streets during the Democratic National Convention. Connecticut Senator Abraham Ribicoff condemns¹ the police for the violence when he nominates a fellow senator for president. “And with George McGovern as President of the United States, we wouldn't have to have Gestapo tactics in the streets of Chicago.” But Vice² President Humphrey is the nominee³ for the deeply divided Democrats⁴. He narrowly loses to Republican Richard Nixon in the fall.

1955. Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago, is abducted⁵ from his uncle’s home in Money, Mississippi. Two white men seized Till after he supposedly whistled at a white woman. He’s found brutally⁶ murdered days later. And all white jury acquits⁷ the men of the crime. They later confess in a magazine interview.

And 1996.

In London, a royal split becomes final as Britain’s Prince Charles and Princess Diana are granted a divorce. Diana is killed in a Paris car crash a year later. Charles marries longtime love Camilla Parker Bowles in the following decade.

Today in History, August 28th. Ed Donahue, the Associated Press.

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