November 22, 1963

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56 years ago today an assassin's bullet shook up America and ended the supposed hopeful period of an American Camelot. Of course, the Camelot did not truly exist in Black America because Jim Crow was still surging in southern states and most of Black America northern cities were clustered ghettos. Our ancestors questioned if justice and equality for any man or woman of color in the existed in this nation. As a matter of fact things were so bad that Malcolm X had to be punished with a vow of silence by the Nation Of Islam for saying that Kennedy’s murder was a case of chickens coming home to roost. My fraternity Iota Phi was in its embryonic stage just 2 months old with 12 black brothers hoping that the organization started at Morgan State College would more than just a dream. That is my Friday evening story to be told. How our fraternity in 1963 came to be and how an assassin’s bullet change the course of this nation.”
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