Word: sharptons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sharpton has played an active and highlyvisible role in civil rights andanti-establishment protests...
...Sharpton was stabbed in the chestbefore he was to lead 200 protesters throughBensonhurst in New York City, a predominantlywhite neighborhood...
...Bensonhurst march, Sharpton wasprotesting the sentencing of a group of whiteteenagers accused of killing Black teenager YusufHawkins. Only one of the accused men was convictedof murder, the others received lighter sentences...
...Sharpton was born in Brooklyn and became alicensed Pentecostal minister when he was 10 yearsold, according to The Times. From age 10 to 18, hewas youth pastor of a Brooklyn Church...
...Sharpton's political career began in 1971 whenhe formed the National Youth Movement with themission of fighting drugs in Black neighborhoods.He has said the group has 13,000 members, thoughin 1991 he has a file of about 500 "actives"available on short notice for protests...