The Decade That Shook It All Up

Change came almost daily in the '60s. So how to pick the days that mattered most?

If you had to pick one day from Martin Luther King Jr.'s life that made the greatest impact on the world, which would it be? It could be the day he stood in front of the Great Emancipator's statue and told more than 250,000 marchers and millions of TV viewers about his dream for America. It might be the day he sat scribbling in a jail cell in Birmingham, Ala., challenging the moderates of white America to stop offering sympathy and start offering real change. Or maybe it's the day a bullet took him down and made the country wonder if...

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