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j. edgar hoover is the 1st Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). in August he starts a campaign to destroy Martin Luthor King Jr. & the civil rights movement. upon RFK’s approval, he is allowed to tap telephones, bug hotel rooms, photograph & tape conversations of King’s & his associates. He then passes this information & other disinformation off to Senator Strom Thurmond & other white supremacists who in turn rail against Bayard Rustin as a " Communist, draft-dodger, & homosexual who was in a sexual relationship with King.” Both men denied the allegation of this affair.

scarlet-- Beaux, you’re a father now! what will we name our son?

Patrick Bouvier Kennedy.

August 3rd, Is the 6th night of consecutive disturbances. Chicago police knock down a burning cross at the home of an african american family who moved into an all-white neighborhood.

August 7th, two very different women give birth to two very different babies. fay atropos to a healthy & unique child who she foresees will bring about great change & Jacqueline Kennedy to premature newborn wHo dies 39 hours later from hyaline membrane disease.

August 18, in spite of extreme harassment & isolation, James Meredith is the 1st african american person to graduate from the University of Mississippi.

August 27 William Edward Burghardt " W.E.B. " Du Bois is an American sociologist, teacher, historian, civil rights activist, author, editor, & founding father of the NAACP. Born 5 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, he died today at 95 years old in Accra, Ghana while working on an encyclopedia of the African diaspora.

Think Pink! This page is drafted in pink mechanical pencil as a nod to gay rights. In 1930’s/40’s nazi germany, concentration camp inmates acused of homosexuality were forced to wear pink triangles. the pink triangle has since been reclaimed as a symbol of pride.

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