August 28 – An Important Day In American Race Relations

From the worst of human behavior, to the highest of hopes for mankind,  to hope and change and where we stand now - August 28 is a day of some notoriety in race relations in America.  No doubt coincidental, but certainly a significant day

. 1955, Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago, was abducted from his uncle's Mississippi home and killed by two white men after he supposedly whistled at the wife of one of the men. Till's brutally beaten body was found three days later. The two suspects were acquitted by an all-white jury.

1957, the late Senator Strom Thurmond, then a Democrat from South Carolina, began his record-setting, 24-hour filibuster against the civil rights bill.

1963, 200,000 people participated in a civil rights rally in Washington, D.C., where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial.

2008, Senator Barack Obama accepted the Democratic presidential nomination on the final day of the Democratic National Convention.