65 years ago: 14 year-old Emmett Till was murdered in Mississippi. (Read more here)
57 years ago: The 1963 March on Washington and Martin Luther King Jr.'s I Have A Dream speech.
There's another march today:
57 years after Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" address, demonstrators once again descended on the National Mall to demand racial justicehttps://t.co/vOyzshHZwi— Mashable (@mashable) August 28, 2020
12 years ago: Barack Obama accepts the Democratic nomination for president
Update: Something else that happened on August 28 is that this picture was taken:
Henry Wallace (left) and Pete Seeger on a plane in Norfolk, Virginia on this date August 28 in 1948. Photo by AP. #OTD pic.twitter.com/fWXrfKzXcd— Jeffrey Guterman, Ph.D. (@JeffreyGuterman) August 28, 2020
We know who Pete Seeger was, but who was Henry Wallace? He was one of President Franklin Roosevelt's three vice presidents. He replaced John Nance Garner in 1940, after Garner had served two terms, and was himself replaced in 1944 by Harry Truman. The tweet above led to some fun What If/Counterfactual History tweets about a topic that intrigues me, vice presidential succession:
Imagine a world that saw President Henry Wallace instead of President Harry Truman... What could have been?— I'm a tree (@Earwig360) August 28, 2020
It is not far-fetched to imagine an alternate history scenario of Henry Wallace staying on the ticket with FDR in 1944 and becoming president in 1945. My guess is Wallace would have either not been nominated in 1948 or he would have lost in a landslide to Dewey. @greenfield64 https://t.co/znV7DjxCMg— Jeffrey Guterman, Ph.D. (@JeffreyGuterman) August 28, 2020
Alternate alternate: Wallace is replaced by James Byrnes, ex Sen., Sup Ct justice, Secy of State. Ardent segregationist. If he becomes POTUS in '45, does a Dewey-led GOP become the party of civil rights? https://t.co/TcBj0N1oFG— Jeff Greenfield (@greenfield64) August 28, 2020
And speaking of vice presidents, back here in the real world, Mike Pence has now accepted the nomination to run for VP again, so the Dump Pence movement is (almost certainly) over.
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