On this day in 1944, more than 160,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy in an attempt to liberate German occupied France from Nazi control and and shift the balance of power on the Western Front of World War II. And while the casualties on that die were unimaginable, more than at least 10,000 Allied soldiers were killed or wounded, their sacrifices was a turning point in the fight. The momentum had shifted. By the end of August, Germany surrendered control of the French capital and the Allies began their fight towards Berlin.
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Today marks the anniversary of the first shots of the French & Indian War, the American name for the North American theater of the Seven Years' War between the colonial powers of Europe.
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On this day in 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered the unanimous ruling in the landmark civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education. In it, the Court declared that state-sanctioned segregation of public schools was a violation of the 14th Amendment and was therefore unconstitutional. This historic decision marked the end of the "separate but equal" precedent established nearly sixty years earlier in Plessy v. Ferguson and served as a catalyst for the expanding civil rights movement.
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All of my posts on the labor movement can be found here. This month marks the anniversary of the historic Selma to Montgomery marches in support of African American voting rights. The first march, nicknamed 'Bloody Sunday,' ended when county and state police attacked the unarmed marchers with billy clubs and tear gas on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, leaving Amelia Boynton unconscious. The image of her lying wounded on the bridge, coupled with the murder of activist James Reeb two days later, prompted a national outcry and led President Lyndon Johnson to urge Congress to pass the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
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