A lot of race related incidents on this date in the past. Today, we don't hear often enough, about how far our country has come in the  past 50 years.

Things are not perfect but we have come a long way. 

• 1955 – Black teenager Emmett Till is brutally murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent civil rights movement.
• 1957 – U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the Senate from voting on Civil Rights Act of 1957; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator.
• 1963 – March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his I Have a Dream speech
• 1964 – The Philadelphia race riot begins.
• 1968 – Rioting takes place in Chicago during the Democratic National Convention, triggering a brutal police crackdown.

1990 – Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest province.