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De Tocqueville, MLK letter, April 16

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April 16 marks the 1859 death of Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian and sociologist, author “Democracy in America.”

On April 16, 1945, the United States Army liberated Nazi high security prisoner-​of-​war camp Oflag IV‑C (better known as Colditz).

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., penned his Letter from Birmingham Jail while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama, for protesting against segregation, on April 16, 1963.

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