Word: sharptons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sharpton talked about his early days of political activism, including his preparations for a 1981 White House visit with musician James Brown...
Brown, who Sharpton described as a father figure, wanted Sharpton to look related to him--so Brown took Sharpton to his hairdresser...
Brown and Sharpton visited the White House to lobby for a national holiday to honor the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. At about the same time, Sharpton said, the practice of racial profiling first appeared...
...Reagan era was the beginning of "an unspoken public policy" to make blacks and Latinos "invisible," Sharpton added...
...enforcement people thought they really weren't doing anything wrong," Sharpton said. "They were reflecting the broader pull of American society...