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Anthony Ray Hinton is born in Alabama.

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The NAACP recruited nine Black students to integrate Little Rock Central High School, leading to a major crisis when Arkansas Governor Orval Faubas used the National Guard to prevent their entry. President Eisenhower federalized the Arkansas National Guard and sent in paratroopers to enforce integration.

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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson. It outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

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A group of 600 peaceful protesters attempted to march from Selma to Montgomery, but were violently attacked by police at the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

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Martin Luther King was shot dead while standing on a balcony outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.

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President Ronald Reagan signed a bill creating a federal holiday to honor Martin Luther King Jr., which was first celebrated in 1986.

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Anthony Ray Hinton was convicted and sentenced to death for the murders of two fast food restaurant managers on September 17, 1986.

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For the first time Hinton heard the sound of a generator kicking on and then hissing and popping and the lights in the hall outside of his cell. It was Wayne Ritter getting executed and his burned flesh smelled across the jail.

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The U.S. Supreme Court denied Anthony Ray Hinton's petition.

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Hinton's hearing was set for April 23, 1991 , but at the beginning of the month he received a note that the hearing was postponed.

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Ray’s mom dies from cancer on September 22, 2002, while Ray is in prison.

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I was born in Atlanta, Georgia.

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My little brother Nicolas was born.

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On April 3, 2015, Hinton was released from prison after the state overturned his conviction and dropped all charges against him.

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I went to my junior prom.

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I overcame my driving anxiety and drove me and my family 3 hours from Georgia to Alabama.

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Our 9 year old chihuahua passed away.

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My parents sold my first car.