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Don’t Know Much About the Lovings
On June 12, 1967, the Supreme Court issued its ruling in Loving v Virginia, striking down state laws prohibiting interracial marriage (“miscegenation”) in America.
TODAY IN HISTORY: The “Monkey Trial”
It was the “trial of the century.” On July 10, 1925, a courtroom in Tennessee was center stage in a contest pitting two courtroom titans against each other, arguing science versus religion on a grand scale, with the full cooperation of an enthusiastic pack of journalists more interested in a spectacle. Imagine that! In real [Read More]