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UofL to take “deep dive” into impact of American civil rights movement

October 8, 2013

Oct. 14 Project Progress event to launch five-year series of lectures, events

Civil Rights history to come to campus in visiting exhibit

October 7, 2013

In October 1960, Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. sat in the Fulton County jail although the charges brought against him had been dropped. Louisvillians Carl and Anne Braden were outraged and sent King a telegram of support on Oct. 24.