A suicide bomber in a car attacks the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing twelve people
Happend on 09. April 1947
The Journey of Reconciliation, the first interracial Freedom Ride of 16 black and white men traveling through the upper South in violation of Jim Crow laws begins. The riders, sponsored by CORE and the Fellowship of Reconciliation, are seeking to force southern states to enforce the Supreme Court's 1946 Irene Morgan decision that banned segregation in interstate travel.
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The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.
John Dryden