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In an unprecedented emergency meeting with American Catholic leaders, Pope John Paul II on Tuesday said there is no place for the sin and crime of pedophilia in the church, adding that the priesthood is no place "for those that…

Apr 18

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Perhaps the most significant martyr in the struggle for civil rights prior to Dr. Martin Luther King's assassination, Medgar Evers galvanized the civil rights movement in his life and also in his death.

Apr 18

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The Freedom Summer Killings

James Earl Chaney lived in Mississippi his entire life. Michael Schwerner spent six months in the state and Andrew Goodman had been there only a day.