Saturday, August 28, 2010

[1749 - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, philosopher,
writer, born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany]

[1899 - Charles Boyer, actor, born in Figeac,
Lot, Midi-Pyrenees, France]

   
[1905 - Sam Levene (Samuel Levine), actor, born in Russia]

[1913 - Richard Tucker (Reuben Ticker), opera
singer, tenor, born in Brooklyn]

[1916 - C. Wright Mills, sociologist,
writer, born in Waco, Texas]

   
[1925 - Donald (David Dixon Ronald) O'Connor, dancer, singer, actor,
born in Chicago]

[1941 - Mass slaughter of 23,000 Hungarian Jews is carried out by Gestapo Mobile Killing Squads in occupied Ukraine]

[1955 - Emmett Till is murdered near
Money, Mississippi]

[1963 - Rev. Martin Luther King. Jr. delivers "I have a dream" speech at Lincoln Memorial]

Still Emmett

Emmett Till, you lie there still;
Kidnapped, tortured, and murdered.
You went down South.
"Well, shut my mouth."
Justice too was drawn and quartered.

William's Whimsical Words:

Strange fruit still growing on Southern trees in 1955.

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