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A white casket containing the body of 14-year-old Carol Robertson, one of four young African-American girls killed in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing by Ku Klux Klan members, is carried in for funeral services in 1963 in Birmingham, Ala. (Bettmann/Bettmann Archive via Getty Images)

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Blaming victims for mail bombs carries echoes of Civil Rights bombings

The conspiracy theories flying around hearken back to another era in American history — the 1950s and '60s — when bombs were a tool of political intimidation.

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A plaque marks the gravesite of Emmett Till at Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Ill. The 14-year-old was killed in Mississippi in 1955. The FBI has reopened the investigation into his lynching. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

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A brutal lynching and a possible confession, decades later

Tyson's subsequent book, The Blood of Emmett Till, published in 2017, caused a sensation.

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Night skyline of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. (Big Stock photo)

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Ben Franklin Parkway celebrates its 100th birthday with its own street party

Philadelphia's iconic thoroughfare marks its 100th anniversary with cake, favors, and music.

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This photo shows a detail of a Dec. 28, 1774 Pennsylvania Journal and the Weekly Advertiser at the Goodwill Industries in Bellmawr, N.J., Thursday, Oct. 25, 2018. A quick eye by Goodwill workers in southern New Jersey turned up the original 1774 Philadelphia newspaper with an iconic

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Goodwill workers in N.J. find original 1774 ‘rebel’ newspaper

There are three other existing copies of the same weekly edition of the Pennsylvania Journal, all housed in university collections.

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Debbie Africa, (left), participates in a news conference alongside her son Michael Africa, Jr. and granddaughter Alia, 6, Tuesday June 19, 2018, in Philadelphia. Africa, a member of the radical group MOVE, was released from prison on Saturday, nearly 40 years after the group engaged in a shootout that killed a Philadelphia police officer in 1978. Michael Africa, Sr., has now also been released. (Jacqueline Larma/AP Photo)

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Mike Africa Sr., member of the MOVE 9, released after 40 years in prison

A second member of the MOVE 9 has been released from prison on parole.

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After independent analysis, the museum said on Monday that five of its famed Dead Sea Scrolls fragments were fake. They will be pulled from their exhibit, and other fragments will undergo further study. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)

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Museum of the Bible says 5 of the Dead Sea Scrolls fragments are fake

The museum will replace the five fragments in the display with three other fragments that will receive further study.

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The plaza at 16th Street and Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Center City Philadelphia surrounds a bronze statue installed in 1964. The statue is America’s oldest public Holocaust memorial. (Avi Wolfman-Arent/WHYY)

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Philadelphia’s Holocaust memorial, America’s oldest, gets a facelift

A new plaza was constructed to provide a better backdrop for the memorial and more information about Nazi Germany's atrocities.

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The three sickly beings in this 19th-century drawing represent diphtheria, scrofula (a form of tuberculosis) and cholera. The woman symbolizes the city of London. (Getty Images)

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The TB that afflicts much of the world was likely spread by Europeans

Conquistadors and missionaries didn't just bring colonialism and Western religion to other parts of the world. They likely brought TB, too.

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Members of Dutch Burton's family join city leaders in unveiling a historic marker commemorating Burton's fight against discrimination. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)

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Wilmington civil rights leader recognized for Supreme Court fight

Wilmington city leaders celebrate local civil rights leader William "Dutch" Burton with a historical marker at the former site of a cafe that refused to serve him in 1958.

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