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spazzmann

(748 posts) Sat Jan 19, 2013, 11:47 AM Jan 2013

Today in Peace and Justice history on January 19, 1966


The GA House of Rep refused to seat black state representative Julian Bond despite his election the previous Nov.
Their stated objection was his endorsement of a SNCC statement accusing the US of violating inter law in Vietnam.
In Dec 1966, the US Supreme Court ruled Bond’s exclusion unconstitutional, Bond finally sworn in the following month. http://bit.ly/10qjSyg

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