Today in history 8/28/2021

August 28th, 1963:

Martin Luther King Jr. capped a major civil rights march in Washington with a speech for the ages at the Lincoln Memorial.

Martin Luther King Jr.: I have a dream: My four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin, but by the content of their character. I have a dream today!

1968:

In Chicago, police and anti-Vietnam War protesters clashed in the streets during the Democratic National Convention.

Connecticut senator Abraham Ribicoff condemned the police for the violence when he nominated a fellow senator for President.

But Vice President Hubert Humphrey was the nominee for the deeply divided Democrats. He ended up losing narrowly to Republican Richard Nixon in the fall.

1955:

Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago, was abducted from his uncle's home in Money, Mississippi.

Two white men seized Till after he supposedly whistled at a white woman.

He was found brutally murdered days later.

An all-White jury acquitted the men of the crime.

They later confessed in a magazine interview.

1996:

In London, a royal split became official, as Prince Charles and Princess Diana were granted a divorce.

Diana was killed in a Paris car crash a year later.

Charles married longtime love Camilla Parker Bowles in the following decade.