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August 24, 2009

Dozens Mark 20th Anniversary of Slaying of Yusuf Hawkins
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And in New York, dozens of people gathered at a Brooklyn cemetery on
Sunday to mark the twentieth anniversary of the killing of Yusuf
Hawkins. On August 23rd, 1989, the sixteen-year-old African American was
shot twice by a white mob who had attacked him and three friends. In a
ceremony at Hawkins’s grave site, the Reverend Al Sharpton said the
murder helped set off a new civil rights movement in the northern United
States.



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