Word: heirloom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jammed Churches. News that the letter was to be read leaked out in advance, and record crowds jammed 624 churches across the country. Women wore family heirloom jewelry and dressed in black as a sign of mourning and protest. They listened in hushed excitement as the letter boldly and dramatically demanded rights that Trujillo has systematically denied for 30 years-privacy of home and family, the right to emigrate, the freedoms of conscience, press and assembly...