Al Sharpton
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Alfred Charles Sharpton Jr. is an American civil rights and social justice activist, Baptist minister, radio talk show host, and TV personality, who is also the founder of the National Action Network
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Sharpton leading the first protest march over the murder of Yusef Hawkins in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, 1989
Sharpton at the National Action Network's headquarters, 2007
Jesse Jackson (third from left) and Sharpton (third from right) at an anti-impeachment rally at the US Capitol in support of President Bill Clinton (fourth from left), December 17, 1998
Tawana Brawley rape hoax
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Tawana Vicenia Brawley is an African American woman from New York who gained notoriety in November 1987 at age 15 when it was alleged she falsely accused four white men of kidnapping and raping her ov
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…He has been accused of making racially insensitive remarks as well as inciting incidents of violence. In 1987, he was highly active in publicizing the Tawana Brawley rape hoax in the media; the allegation was later proven to be false. Alfred Charles Sharpton Jr. was born on October 3, 1954, in the Brownsville neighborhood of…
Al Sharpton (pictured in 2006) helped handle Brawley's publicity.
Patricia J. Williams (pictured in 2007) maintained that Brawley was the victim of a crime.