Good morning, Whitewater
There are no public, municipal meetings scheduled for today in Whitewater. There is one tomorrow, though, so your weekend isn’t completely safe. It’s the landmarks Commission, so the risk is probably slight.
It was on this day in 1963 that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial. The New York Times Has more on the speech:
More than 200,000 Americans, most of them black but many of them white, demonstrated here today for a full and speedy program of civil rights and equal job opportunities.
It was the greatest assembly for a redress of grievances that this capital has ever seen….
There was no violence to mar the demonstration. In fact, at times there was an air of hootenanny about it as groups of schoolchildren clapped hands and swung into the familiar freedom songs.
But if the crowd was good-natured, the underlying tone was one of dead seriousness. The emphasis was on “freedom” and “now.” At the same time the leaders emphasized, paradoxically but realistically, that the struggle was just beginning.
Here’s today’s almanac:
| Almanac | ||
|---|---|---|
| Friday, August 28, 2009 | Sunrise | Sunset |
| Official Time | 06:14 AM | 07:36 PM |
| Civil Twilight | 05:45 AM | 08:06 PM |
| Tomorrow | 06:16 AM | 07:34 PM |
| Tomorrow will be: | 4 minutes shorter | |
| Amount of sunlight: | 13h 22 m | |
| Amount of daylight: | 14h 21 m | |
| Moon phase: | Waxing gibbous | |