Archive For June 12, 2020
1942 – Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday. In 1963 civil rights leader Medgar Evers, 37, was shot and killed outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi, by a member of the Ku Klux Klan. In 1964, South African black freedom fighter Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life in prison for ‘committing sabotage’ against the racist white regime….