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concur.com. What's good y'all you're listening to Code Switch. I'm Gene Demby.

So way back in the very early days of Coase

which in 2013, way before we had a podcast even, some of my

colleagues on the team brained this Twitter feed back when you know what was still called

Twitter that account was named at today in 1963 and the idea behind it was really

simple every day the account would tweet out news items from newspapers from that same

corresponding day but 50 years earlier in 1963 and 63 was a really

eventful year for the Civil Rights Movement in the United States.

Meggar Evers, the Civil Rights Organizer, was gunned down outside of his home in Mississippi

by a member of the Clan.

Twenty-two black people,

including four school-age girls,

were killed when white opponents to desegregation

hit a bomb under the steps of their church

in Birmingham, Alabama.

And of course, 1963 also saw what has since become the most

famous moment of the Civil Rights Movement, the March on Washington, and specifically

Martin Luther King's now iconic speech.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up.

And so just to go back to that 1963 Twitter feed we ran away back then, one of the things that might be surprising to people today was how shook people were about this whole thing back then and this idea of this huge throng of black folks

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