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FILE - A civil rights march is conducted on Sept. 4, 1966 in close quarters on Cicero Ave., a main street of this suburb of Chicago. At left, the police; then National Guardsmen with bayonets on rifles, then marchers, then crowd. (AP Photo, file)

Leaders in San Francisco are blasting the Trump administration for stripping the name of gay icon Harvey Milk from a U.S. naval ship. Milk is a revered figure in San Francisco history. He was a city supervisor who was fatally shot along with Mayor George Moscone in 1978 by disgruntled former supervisor Dan White. Just last month, California marked what would have been Milk’s 95th birthday with proclamations heralding his kindness and calls for unity. Milk's close friend Cleve Jones called the move an attempt by the Republican administration to distract the public from more serious issues.

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FILE - Firefighters douse the historic Clayborn Temple, a landmark from the civil rights movement with ties to Martin Luther King Jr., with water after it caught fire, April 28, 2025, in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/Karen Pulfer Focht, File)

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FILE - The historic Clayborn Temple, a landmark from the civil rights movement with ties to Martin Luther King Jr., caught fire, April 28, 2025, in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/Karen Pulfer Focht, File)