San Diego’s BLM chapter forms
San Diego’s Black Lives Matter chapter formed in the wake of a local flashpoint the death of Alfred Olango. The 38-year-old Ugandan refugee was shot and killed by El Cajon police officers on Sept. 27, 2016. The officers were responding to a call for psychiatric aid. Olango held an object, which turned out to be a vape pen, in his hands and took a shooting stance before officers fired.
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Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech in San Diego at California Western University.
King was on a speaking tour of California cities, and addressed both California Western University (now Point Loma Nazarene University) and San Diego State College (now San Diego State University) on May 29, 1964. In his speech at Cal Western, King spoke out against California’s Proposition 14. This ballot measure, which would pass that November, in effect repealed the Rumford Fair Housing Act of 1963 and allowed individuals to practice discrimination when selling or renting property. King’s address gave national context to the issues of segregation and racism prevalent in San Diego and California.
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