1- Black Fact = 1963 (June 12) – Medgar Evers, civil rights activist and the NAACP’s first Field Secretary in the state of Mississippi, was assassinated at his Jackson, MS, residence on this date in 1963.
2- Black Fact = 1964( June 12) – Nelson R. Mandela, South African political activist, was sentenced to life imprisonment on this date in 1964. Mandela served a 27-year prison term after being convicted for “sabotaging” the South African government. Mandela, a political prisoner, went on to become president of his country.
3- Black Fact = 1989 (June 12) – With Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall dissenting, the Supreme Court voted, on this date in 1989, to allow workers to file a lawsuit claiming discrimination if they claimed that the Affirmative Action policy of their company adversely affected them.
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