On today's Your Call, we’ll talk about the year 1968 and why it was such a watershed moment. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4th, 1968. In the same year: The Tet Offensive killed tens of thousands in Vietnam. Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated. Women threw their bras into a public trash can to protest the Miss America Pageant. Apollo 8 orbited the moon. A current exhibit at the Oakland Museum highlights the events of 1968.
Alexi Nunn Freeman, a lawyer for the Advancement Project, told us a storyabout five year-old Ja’eisha Scott who was arrested by the police in her kindergarten classroom for having a temper tantrum. This sounds extreme; but according to Freeman, it is part of a recent national trend.
