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His headstone said "Free at last, Free at last" - But death is a slave's freedom - We seek the freedom of free men - And the construction of a world - Where Martin Luther King could have lived - and preached non-violence

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Today In History

• In 1939 - Marian Anderson performs for 65,000 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial after she is refused admission to the Daughters of the American Revolution's Constitutional Hall
  
• In 1950 - Juanita Hall becomes the first African American to win a Tony award for her role as Bloody Mary in the musical South Pacific