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INLAND EMPIRE C O MMUNITIES CELEBRATE 'S 75TH BIRTHDAY WITH M _ANY ACTIVITIES,

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gram and concert was held at Kansas Ave. Scholarships were presented by their SDA Church. According to organizer granddaughter, Coral Jackson Wright San Bernardino and Riverside were Rose Mayes, the concert featuring Arthur (Beverly Hills High School). Receiving awash with activities during the 75th Rand was wonderful and left everyone in them were: Michael Harris, Jr. of Lincoln Anniversary of Martin Luther King's awe standing on his or her feet. High School and Angella Nanyonyi of birthday. King, who never came to the Across the street at Park Ave. Baptist King High School. Inland Empire, has two statues to his Church was the celebration sponsored by That was a prelude to the main speaker, honor: the oldest in San Bernardino the the Riverside Clergy Association. Using Rev. J. Andujo; Jr., Pastor of Amos other in Riverside, both stand near City the theme "Children of " it was Temple CME Church. Andujo energized Hall. the most interracially mixed event in the the crowd with his message of hope. In San Bernardino, the King Day activ­ two cities. Over 100 children alone came Taken from Exodus he asked the question, ities began with its 24th annual.communi­ from the Chemawa Middle School choir "why did we march today?" He said ty breakfast, this year held at Arroyo where Second Baptist Minister of Music Martin Luther King marched because of Valley High School. Nearly 500 people Gregg Thomas is the director. the dogs, water hoses and injustices gathered in the Getaway Cafe to enjoy the Rev Paul S. Munford, president of the heaped on Black people. "We shouldn't breakfast program; they adjourned to City Riverside Clergy and pastor of New Joy have to march t9day but we do because Hall for prayers encircling the statue. Missionary Baptist Church was excited there are still issues here. There is the Pastor Josh Beckley of Ecclesia about the large crowd and the message injustice of Tyishia Miller yet still unre­ Christian Church and vice president of the from the many speakers. solved; police officers got paid but city sponsors, Inland Empire Concerned Rev. Shermella Garrett-Egson present-· workers are still waiting to get justice an.ct · African American Churches, gave a ed the essay winners. Praise Dancer Erika fairness in the discrimination they suf­ keynote address that left the audience on · Goe received a standing ovation for her fered." He said that there is in justice as their feet. He was able to make King's life solo presentation. Councilwoman· Nancy long as White clergy will not serve in relevant to problems plaguing America Hart warmly greeted the crowd. Joe Black institutions unless they are in con­ and our community today. 'Two of the Frederickson also spoke on King's rele­ trol. And on the national front he said strongest King commemoration support­ vance in his life. "Bush get out of lraq!" He said he could ers from the beginning were on hand On Monday the Walk A Thon "New say those things because he is a messen­ again to participate in this historic break­ Dreams. New Visions" began at 9 A.M. ger for God. "An,' injustices going on fast, Bishop Gertrude Wetzel and Rabbi Several individuals walked the 6K walk. we're going to march for them," said Hillel Cohn returned for their 24th year. Mary Daniels, President of the Riverside Andjuo. There was Bronica Chess and the FAME Bar Association, said she wouldn't miss it The day wasn't over. That evening the Praise Dancers reminding us of the impor­ and encouraged others to join her. The African Methodist Ministerial Alliance of tance of eating fresh fruits and vegetables; honorary chairs for the event were George the Inland Empire also commemorated ministers, prayers and scripture readings; Caravalho, City Manager; Chuck Beaty, the life of King. This year's meeting was a welcome from school board member outgoing City Councilman; Joseph convened at Quinn AME in -Moreno Danny Tillman and a proud welcome Frederickson, VP Press-Enterprise, Valley, where Rev. Najuma Smith is pas­ from ·Karen Craig, the principal. Mayor Marketing and Public Affairs; Rev. Jesse tor. Presiding over the event was Rev. Judith Valles, outgoing Councilwoman Wilson, Pastor Kansas Ave, SDA; and Dr. Mary Jamerson Polk, Pastor of Holy Betty AndeFson, Esther Estrada, Angela Martin, Obstetrician, Kaiser Trinity, Palmdale, CA. There was praying Congressman Joe Baca, Assemblyman Hospital. The program was moved along singing and a reflection of the life of King John Longville, County Superintendent of by the dynamic husband and wife team, by author Richard Gordon and the mes­ Schools Herb Fisher, and school board Hazel and Richard Patterson. Rev. Jerry sage by Rev. Mary Minor, pastor of members Joann Gilbert, Walter Hawkins, Louder gave a little on the history of the Bethel, Perris. Tony Dupre, were also present. Riverside celebrations and remembered Earlier in the day the Multicultural At the statue elected representatives many that have passed on who had been Civic Association of Moreno Valley, Inc. imparted their desires during this time of involved for years in King activities. also celebrated their second annual festi- · remembrance. Students from local high schools spoke on val and expo at the Moreno Valley In Riverside, beginning on Saturday the phases of King's life: Nefera Croom, Community Park. There was a K-12 with the SCLC Dinner where North High School; Kara Cromer, Entertainment Hour where youth could Congresswoman Maxine Waters was the Lincoln; Aries Smith, Lincoln; Florina showcase their talent and a recitation of guest speaker (see front page) and contin- · Fernandes, North High School. The the " Speech" by Anthony uing on Sunday, King's memory was pre­ crowd of nearly 500 was blessed by the Glover. All entertainment celebrated the served. The Riverside African American voices of Ashley Argota of Colton, a Star life of Dr. King. The keynote speaker was Historical Society, Inc. held ~ reception to Search finalist and Mariyah B_urton, of Elder John W. Thomas.

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ATLANTA, GA 1929 THE LIFE OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

CHRONOLOGY OF KING'S LIFE

1929

January 22 Martin Luther King, Jr. is born to Rev. and Mrs. Martin Luther King, Sr. (former Alberta Christine Williams) in Atlanta, Georgia.

1935-1944

Dr. King attends David T. Howard Elementary School, Atlanta University Laboratory School, and Booker T. Washington High School. He passes the entrance examination to Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia without graduating from high school.

1947

Dr. King is licensed to preach.

1948

Photo courtesy of Martin Luther King Center for Social Change · February 25 DINING ROOM: The dining room of The Martin Luther King, Jr. Birth Home appears as it did when he was born. The Dr. King is ordained to the Baptist ministry and appointed associate pastor at Ebenezer. original fumiure had been preserved and has been restored, under the direction of Dr. King's mother and sister was completed by The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Social Change, Atianta, Georgia. June 8 Dr. King graduates from Morehouse College with a BA degree in Sociology.

September Dr. King enters Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania. After hearing Dr. A. J. Muste and Dr. Mordecai W. Johnson preach on the life and teachings of , he begins to study Gandhi seriously.

1951

May 6-8 Dr. King graduates from Crozer with a Bachelor of Divinity degree.

1953

June 18 Dr. King marries Coretta Scott in Marion, Alabama.

1954

May 17 The Supreme Court of the United States rules unanimously in Brown vs. Board of Education that racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional.

October 31 Rev. Martin Luther King, S~. appoints Dr. King as the twentieth pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama.

1955

June 5 Dr. King receives a Ph.D. degree in Systematic Theology from University.

November 17 The Kings' first child, Yolanda Denise, is born in Montgomery, Alabama.

December 1 Mrs. , a forty-two year old Montgomery seamstress, refuses to relinquish her bus seat to a white man and is arrested.

December 5 The first day of the and the trial date of Mrs. Parks. A meet­ ing of movement leaders is held. Dr. King is unanimously elected president of the Montgomery Improvement Association.

December. IO The Montgomery Bus · · · ods . .,. ""·; .... ,. r-, ) .,, " •••• ,...... ◄ • ♦ f • Ill• •. t C .,,_ 4 •• ' • ' ◄ ., , .. .. ' f • " • # ' ' ' ' ~ --~' --~-:r ,. -' u~.r _,. .r.:r J •.r .J.., J 'J:Jr:J'.LJ,~I'..J • '•.• .. • JANUARY 22, 2004 A LOOK BACK PAGE 4

June 13 January 26 Dr. King meets with the Vice President of the United States, Dr. King is arrested on a charge of traveling thirty miles per Richard M. Nixon. hour in a twenty-five miles per hour zone in Montgomery. He September is released on his own recognizance. President Dwight D. Eisenhower federalizes the Arkansas National Guard to escort nine Negro students' to an all-white January 30 high school in Little Rock, Arkansas. A bomb is thrown onto the porch of Dr. King's Montgomery home. Mrs. King and Mrs. Roscoe Williams, wife of a church September 9 member, are in the house with baby Yolanda Denise. No one The fust Civil Rights Act since Reconstruction is passed by is injured. Congress, creating the Civil Rights Commission and the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice. February 2 ' A suit is filed in Federal District Court asking that October 23 Montgomery's travel segregation laws be declared unconstitu­ A second child, Martin Luther III, is born to Dr. and Mrs. tional. King.

February 21 _ 1958 Dr. King is indicted with other figures in the Montgomery bus boycott on the charge of being party to a conspiracy to hinder June 23 and prevent the operation of business without "just or legal Dr. King, along with of the NAACP, A. Philip cause." Randolph, and Lester Granger meet with President Dwight D. Eisenhower. June·4 A United States District Court rules that racial segregation on September 3 city bus lines is unconstitutional. Dr. King is arrested on a charge of loitering (later changed to 1957 "failure to obey an officer") in the vicinity of the Montgomery August 10 Recorder's Court. He is released on $100.00 bond. Dr. King is a speaker before the platform committee of the January 27 Democratic Party in , Illinois. An unexploded bomb is discovered on the front porch of the September 4 King's house. Dr. King is convicted after pleading "Not Guilty" on the October 30 charge of failure to -obey an officer. The fine is paid almost Mayor Gayle of Montgomery, Alabama instructs the city's February 14 immediately, over Dr. King's objection, by Montgomery legal department "to file such proceedings as it may deem The So.uthem Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) is Police Commissioner Clyde C. Sellers. proper to stop the operation of car pools and transportation founded. systems growing out of the boycott." September 17 February 18 Dr. King's book, : The Montgomery November 13 Dr. King is featured on the cover of Time magazine. . Story, is published by Harper & Row. The United States Supreme Court affirms the decision of the three-judge district court in declaring Alabama's state and May 17 September 20 local laws requiring segregation on buses unconstitutional. Dr. King delivers a speech for the Prayer Pilgrimage for Dr. King is stabbed in the chest by Mrs. Izola Curry, who is ~ Freedom celebrating .the third anniversary of the Supreme subsequently alleged to be mentally deranged. The stabbing December 20 Court's desegregation decision. The speech, titled, "Give Us occurs in Harlem, New York while Dr. King is autographing Federal injunctions prohibiting segregation on buses are The Ballot," is given at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, his recently published book. His condition was said to be seri­ served on city and bus company officials in Montgomery, D.C. ous but not critical. Alabama. Injunctions are also served on state officials. Montgomery buses are integrated. 1959

·January 30 Dr. King meets with , President of the United Auto Workers Union, in Detroit, Michigan.

February 2 - 10 Dr. and Mrs. King spend a month in India studying Gandhi's March techniques of as guests of Prime Minister Jawaharal Nehru.

1960

January 24 The King family moves to Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. King becomes co-pastor, with his father, of the Ebenezer Baptist Church.

February 1 The fust lunch counter sit-in to desegregate eating facilities is held by students in Greensboro, North Carolina.

February 17 A warrant is issued for Dr. King's arrest on charges that he had falsified his 1956 and 1958 Alabama state income tax returns.

April 15 The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) is founded to coordinate student protests at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina on a temporary ba is. (It is to become a permanent organization in October · 1·960.) Dr. King and are the keynote speakers at the Shaw JANUARY 22, 2004 A LOOK BACK PAGE 5 Uruvers1ty founding.

May 28 Dr. King is acquitted of the tax evasion charge by an all white jury in Montgomery, Alabama.

June 10 Dr. King and A. Philip Randolph announce plans for picketing both the Republican ~d Democratic National Conventions.

June 24 Dr. King meets with John F. Kennedy (candidate for President of the United States) about racial matters.

October 19 Dr. King is arrested at an Atlanta sit-in and is jailed on a charge of violating the state's trespassing law.

October 22 - 27 The trespassing charges are dropped. All jailed demonstrators are released except Dr. King, who is held on a charge of vio­ lating a probated sentence in a traffic arrest case. He is trans­ ferred to the Dekalb County Jail in Decatur, Georgia, antl is then transferred to the Reidsville State Prison. He is released from the Reidsville State Prison on a $2,000.00 bond.

1961

January 30 Photo by Bob Adelman A third child, Dexter Scott, is born to Dr. and Mrs. King in Entering Montgomery at the end of the Selma March. Atlanta, Georgia. Memorial. Afterwards he and other Civil Rights leaders meet May4 1963 with President John F. Kennedy in the White House. The first group of , with the intent of integrat­ ing interstate buses, leaves Washington, D.C. by Greyhound March 28 September 2-10 bus. The group, organized by the Congress for Racial Equality The King's fourth child, Bernice Albertine, is born. Governor Wallace orders the Alabama state troopers to stop (CORE), leaves shortly after the Supreme Court has outlawed the court ordered integration of Alabama's elementary and segregation in interstate transportation terminals. The bus is March-April high schools until he is enjoined by court injunction from burned outside of Anniston, Alabama on May 14. A mob beats Sit-in demonstrations are held in Birmingham, Alabama to doing so. By September 10 specific schools are actually inte­ the Freedom Riders upon their arrival in Birmingham, protest segregation of eating facilities. Dr. King is arrested grated by court order. 'Alabama. The Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson; during a demonstration. Mississippi, and spend forty to sixty days in Parchman September 15 Penitentiary. April 16 Four young girls are killed in a Birmingham, Alabama church Dr. King writes the "Letter From A Birmingham Jail" while bombing. December 15 imprisoned for demonstrating. Dr. King arrives in Albany, Georgia in response to a call from November22 Dr. W. G. Anderson, the leader of the to May 3 - 5 President Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas. desegregate public facilities, which began in January 1961. Eugene "Bull" Connor, Director of Pul)lic Safety of Birmingham, Alabama, orders the use of police dogs and fue 1964 December 16 hoses against the marching protesters, including young adults Dr. Kingtis arrested at an Albany, Georgia demonstration. He and children. Summer is charged with obstructing the sidewalk and parading without COFO (Council of Federated Organizations) initiates the a permit. May 20 _ Mississippi Summer Project, a ·voter registration drive organ­ The Supreme Court of the United States rules Birmingham, ized and run by Black and white students. 1962 Alabama's segregation ordinances unconstitutional. May- June February 27 June Dr. King joins other SCLC workers in a demonstration for the Dr. King is tried and convicted for leading the December Dr. King's book, , is published by Harper & integration of public accommodations in St. Augustine, march in Albany, Georgia. Row. Aorida. He is jailed.

May2 June 11 . June · Dr. King is invited to join the protests in Birmingham, Governor George C. Wallace tries to stop the court ordered · Dr. King's book, Why We Can't Wait, is published by Harper Alabama. integration of the University of Alabama by "standing in the &Row. schoolhouse door" and personally refusing entrance to Black July 27 students and Justice Department officials. President John F. June 21 .. Dr. King is· arrested at an Albany, Georgia city hall prayer vigil Kennedy then federalizes the Alabama National Guard, and Three civil rights workers, (Black), Andrew and jailed on charges of failure to obey a police officer, Governor Wallace removes himself from blocking the entrance Goodman and (both white), are reported obstructing the sidewalk and disorderly conduct. of the Negro students. missing after a short trip to Philadelphia, Mississippi.

September 20 June 12 July 2 makes his first attempt to enroll at ·the , NAACP leader in Jackson, Mississippi, is Dr. King attends the signing of the Public Accommodations UniversitY""'f Mississippi. He is actually enrolled by Supreme assassinated at his home in the early morning darkness. His Bill, (Part of the ) by President Court order and is escorted onto the Oxford, Mississippi cam­ memorial service is held in Jackson on June 15. He is buried Lyndon B. Johnson in the White House. pus by U.S. Marshals on October 1, 1962. in Arlington National Cemetery, Washington D.C. on June 19. July 18-23 October 16 August 28 Riots occur in Harlem, New York. One Black man is killed. Dr. King meets with President John F. Kennedy at the White The March on Washington, the first large-scale integrated ijol\se for a ope-hour ,conferenGC, protest march, is held in Washington, D.C. Dr. King delivers August .. 4 ...... his "I H~v_e: 1, Dream" speech on the steps .0£ the Lincoln •••••• t. • • • I • .. .• ... 1 ...... • ~ , , .. . ' ' ' ' t ' • ' ...... ~ • • • • .. • • • • • • • .. , • • • .. • • • • ,, .. • • • • ' • ·• ·• • • ,. • • ...... ' •

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SAN BERNARDINO BREAKFAST

Rev. Kenny and Shervonne Wells QUINN A.M.E. RIVERSIDE CLERGY MLK SERVICE Bronica Chess and the FAME Dancers.

Pastor's Alliance: Revs. Na uma Smith, Anthony ughes, Noella Buchanan, Benjamin Hollins, Johnathan Maxey, Mary Minor and Mary Jamerson Polk. RIVERSIDE WALK-A-THON

Hugh Layton, Nefera Croom, Cara Cormer, Aries Smith and Recent Star Search Ashley Argota. Rev. J. Andujo, Richard Patterson, Hazel Patterson, Supervisor Florina Fernandes Bob Buster, Pastor Jesse Wilson, Councilman Chuck Beaty, Dr. Jer,y Louder, • Aositfa. aittg. JANUARY 22, 2004 A LOOK BACK PAGE 7

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Riots occur in New Jersey, Illinois and Pennsylvania. 1966 The Justice Department reports that more than 50 percent of all eligible Black voters are registered in Mississippi, Georgia, August 4 February Alabama, Louisiana and South Carolina. The bodies of civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Dr. King rents an apartment in the Black ghetto of Chicago, Goodman, and Michael Schwerner are discovered by FBI Illinois. July 12-17 Agents buried near the town of Philadelphia, Mississippi. Twenty-three people die and 725 are injured in riots in Neshoba County Sheriff Rainey and his deputy, Cecil Price, February 23 Newark, New Jersey. are allegedly implicated in the murders. Dr. King meets with , leader of the Black Muslims, in Chicago. July 23-30 September Forty-three die and 324 are injured in the Detroit riots -- the Dr. King and Rev. visit West Berlin at the March worst of the century. invitation of Mayor Willy Brandt. Dr. King takes over a Chicago slum building and is sued by its owner. July 26 September 18 Black leaders, Martin Luther King, Jr., A. Philip Randolph, Dr. King has an audience with Pope Paul VI at the Vatican. March 25 Roy Wilkins and appeal for an end to the riots, The Supreme Court of the J.]nited States rules all poll tax "which have proved ineffective and damaging to the civil December 10 unconstitutional. rights cause arid the entire nation."

Dr. King receives the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway. r Spring October 30 1965 Dr. King tours Alabama to help elect Black candidates. The Supreme Court upholds the contempt-of-court .convic­ The Alabama Primary is held, and for the fust time since tions of Dr. King and seven other Black leaders· who Jed the February 21 Reconstruction, Blacks vote in significant numbers. 1963 marches in Birmingham, Alabama: Dr. King and his , leader of the Organization of Afro-American aides enter jail to serve four-day sentences. Unity and former Black Muslim leader, is murdered in New May 16 York City. An antiwar statement by Dr. King is read at a large Washington November 27 rally to protest the war in Vietnam. Dr. King agrees to serve as Dr. Ki.ng announces the formation by SCLC of a Poor People's March 7 a co-chairman of Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Campaign, with the aim of representing the problems of poor A group of marching demonstrators (from SNCC and SCLC) Vietnam. Blacks and whites. Jed by SCLC's are beaten when crossing the Edmund · Pettus Bridge on their planned march to June 1968 Montgomery, Alabama, from Selma, Alabama. Their attackers and Willie Ricks (SNCC) use the slogan were state highway patrolmen under the direction of Al Lingo "Black Power" in public for the first time before reporters in 1'ebruary 12 and sheriff's deputies under the leadership of Jim Clark. An Greenwood, Mississippi. Sanitation workers strike in Memphis, Tennessee. order by Governor Wallace had prohibited the march. June 6 March 28 March 9 James Meredith is shot soon after beginning his 220-mile Dr. King leads six thousand protesters on a march through Unitarian minister, , is beaten by four white segre­ "" from Memphis, Tennessee to Jackson, downtown Memphis in support of striking sanitation workers. gationists in Selma. He dies two days later. Mississippi. Disorder breaks out during which Black youths loot stores. One sixteeri-year-old is killed and fifty people are injured. March 15 July 10 President Johnson addresses the nation and Congress. He Dr. King launches a drive to make Chicago an "open city" April 3 describes the voting rights bill he will submit to Congress in regarding housing. Dr. King's last speech titled "I've Been to the Mountain Top" two days and uses the slogan of the , is delivered at Mason Temple in Memphis, Tennessee. "." August 5 Dr. King is stoned in Chicago as he leads a march through April 4 • I March i6 crowds of angry whites in the Gage Park section of Chicago's Dr. King is assassinated as he stands talking on the balcony of Sheriff's deputies and police on horseback in Montgomery, southwest side. his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. He Alabama beat Black and White demonstrators. dies in St. Joseph's Hospital from a gunshot wound in the September neck. March 21- 25 SCLC launches a project with the aim of integrating schools in Over thre<: thousand protest marchers leave Selma for a march Grenada, Mississippi. April9 to Montgomery, Alabama protected by federal troops. They Dr. King is buried in Atlanta, Georgia. are joined along the way J>y a total of twenty-five thousand Fall r.:;; marchers. Upon reaching the capitol, they hear an address by SCLC initiates the Alabama Citizen Education Project_ in June 5 Dr. King. Wilcox County. Presidential candidate Senator Robert Kennedy is shot in Los Angeles and dies the next day. March 25 1967 Mrs. , wife of a Detroit Teamsters Union business 1986 agent, is shot and killed while driving a carload of marchers January back to Selma. Dr. King writes his book Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos January 18 or Community? while in Jamaica. Following passage of Public Law 98-144, President Ronald July Reagan signs a proclamation declaring the third Monday in Dr. King v1s1ts Chicago, Illinois. SCLC joins with the March 12 January of each year a public holiday in honor of the birthday Coordinating Council of Community Organizations (CCCO), Alabama is ordered to desegregate all public schools. of Martin Luther King, Jr. Jed by i\l Raby, in the Chicago Project. March 25 1999 August - December Dr. King attacks the government's Vietnam policy in a speech In Alabama, SCLC spearheads voter registration campaigns in at the Chicago Coliseum. December 8 Green and Wilcox counties, and in the cities of Montgomery, A jury of twelve citizens of Memphis, Shelby County, TN con­ Birmingham, and Eutaw, Alabama. April 4 cluded in , Martin Luther King, ID, Bernice Dr. King makes a statement about the war in Vietnam, King, Dexter Scott King and Vs. August 6 "Beyond Vietnam," at the Riverside Church in New York City. and Other Unknown Conspirators that Loyd Jowers and gov­ The l.2,65 Voting Rights Act is signed by President Johnson. ernmental agencies including the City of Memphis, the State May 10-11 of Tennessee, and the federal government were party to the August 11-16 One Black student is killed in a riot on the campus of all Negro conspiracy to assassinate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In Watts, the Black ghetto of Los Angeles, riots leave a total of Jackson State College in Jackson, Mississippi. thirty-five dead ..~~nty-eig~t are ~lack. • • · Courtesy of Tile King Center - Al/anta, GA • • • f t • • • iuly6 JANUARY 22, 2004 A LOOK BACK PAGE 9 0

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