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Sixty years ago today, two heroic, courageous and idealistic young Black Americans, Vivian Malone and James Hood, entered the University of Alabama after JFK federalized the Alabama National Guard and Governor George Wallace stepped aside after trying to bar them: 
During a partially-improvised Oval Office speech, JFK declares civil rights "a moral issue" and pledges to send comprehensive bill to Congress, sixty years ago tonight:
Medgar Evers, World War II veteran and NAACP field secretary in Mississippi, was murdered outside his home, hours after the civil rights speech JFK gave sixty years ago tonight:
At Medgar Evers’ funeral, his widow Myrlie consoles son Darrell, sixty years ago this week: #Loengard
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