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September 7th, Eric “Eazy-E” Lynn Wright of N.W.A., aka " The Godfather of Gangsta rap " was born in Compton, California.

September 12th, Birmingham’s public schools integrate & many white students boycott classes.

September 16th, “The OutER Limits” debuts

students drag an effigy past west end high. police warn them, but only about “fast driving & honking in front of school”

here is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission.

If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper.

We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. We can roll the image, make it flutter.

We can change the focus to a soft blur or sharpen it to crystal clarity.

“X-MEn” debuts, Inspired by the civil rights movement, created by Stan Lee & Jack Kirby.

this young team is feared & hated for being born “different.”

Jean!

United we stand.

divided we fall.

Scott!

indubitably!

X-MEN (1992) 90’S CARTOON OPENING THEME

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September 15th, the KKK bombs the 16th st Baptist church in Birmingham killing 4 young girls & injuring 22 more.

September 19TH, THE 1ST homosexual rights demonstration in the U.s. finds picketers proting the violation of confidentiality of homosexual’s draft records at the Whitehall Induction Center in New York City.

virgil was riding on the handle bars of his brother’s bicycle when he was fataly shot by white teens who had come from a segregationist rally held after the 16th street Baptist Church bombing.

virgil lamar ware

Addie Mae Collins

Cynthia Wesley

“when the kids got killed in that church, that did it... first you get depressed, then you get mad, and when these kids got bombed, I just sat down and wrote this song” - Nina Simone “Mississippi GodDam” September 18th, The “Eulogy for martyred children” is Delivered as a funeral service for the children killed in the bombing. “Their death says to us that we must work passionately and unrelentingly for the realiza tion of the American dream….” - Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.

Denise McNair

Carole Robertson

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