The National Council of Churches (NCC) responds to the Black Manifesto by appointing a sixteen-member committee to negotiate with the National Black Economic Development Conference (NBEDC) and to bring program recommendations to the NCC.

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In 1994, Maurice Glele, member of the Supreme Court of Benin, is appointed Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance.

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In May 1968, nine major caravans of poor people gather and prepare to converge on Washington, D.C. in support of the Poor People’s Campaign (see timeline entry for December 4, 1967).

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In March 2016, Charlottesville City Council members Wes Bellamy and Kristin Szakos call for removal of the Robert E. Lee statue and renaming the Lee Park.