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Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. Shake Hands An iconic photograph captured the Washington meeting of these two titans as the Senate debated the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Library of Congress Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. talk after the Georgia civil rights leader’s press conference at the U.S. Capitol in 1964. It’s in the low 70s and partly cloudy in Washington when members of the Senate gather on March 26, 1964. There are two motions on the agenda this Thursday morning. The...

Commodore Perry’s black ships deliver a letter to Japan in July 1853 Jan. 28 06:51 am JST Jan. 29 | 10:58 am JST It wasn’t a surprise. As early as 1852, a Dutch agent in Nagasaki had given a report to high-level Japanese officials describing an expedition led by Matthew Calbraith Perry, consisting of “two steamships and two other ships.” Japan’s bakufu — the shogunate government in power for the last seven centuries —had limited their trading to China, Korea, Hollan...