Seeds of Fire: A People’s Chronology
Recalling events that happened on this day in history.
Memories of struggle, resistance and persistence.
Compiled by Ulli Diemer
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September 25, 1940
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Suicide of Walter Benjamin, German Marxist, philosopher, literary critic, and cultural theorist. A Jew, Benjamin was part of a refugee group which had fled to Spain from Nazi-occupied France. Learning that Spain is about to deport them back to France into the hands of the Nazis, Benjamin commits suicide by taking an overdose of morphine.
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September 25, 1957
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Federal troops force desegregation of Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas.
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September 25, 1961
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Mississippi justice: Herbert Lee, a farmer working to register black voters, is gunned down in Liberty, Mississippi by E.H. Hurst, a state legislator. A ‘trial’ before an all-white jury takes place later the same day. The ‘jury’ finds Hurst not guilty.
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