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'What went wrong?'

July 04, 2020 12:01 am • Last Updated: July 04, 2020 12:05 am

When I was young the heroes of the Civil Rights Movement were Thurgood Marshall, Roy Abernathy, John Lewis, and Martin Luther King. Today the "heroes" of the Black Lives Matter Movement are Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and George Floyd.

What went wrong?

Tom Sullivan

Ledyard

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