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It’s hard to believe it was only 50 years ago that America treated its people this way:
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"Firemen under orders from local officials turn their high-pressure water hoses at demonstrators on the sidewalk in Birmingham, Ala. Images of the harsh crackdown flashed across America generating national outrage." Charles Moore/Black Star.
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Taken from Time magazine’s photographic remembrance of Martin Luther King Jr.:
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