Without any editorializing or clouding what you will take from this, these three events that share the same anniversary, August 28.
1955 - About 2:30 a.m., Roy Bryant and his half brother J. W. Milam, kidnap Emmett Till from Moses Wright's home (in Money, Mississippi). They will later describe brutally beating him, taking him to the edge of the Tallahatchie River, shooting him in the head, fastening a large metal fan used for ginning cotton to his neck with barbed wire, and pushing the body into the river.
1963 - The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I Have a Dream Speech" in Washington, D.C.
2008 - Barack Obama plays to a full house in Denver as he accepts the Democratic nomination for president.
It's a start.
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