The crowd faces off with police at the Stonewall Inn nightclub raid on June 27, 1969, in New York City.

The crowd faces off with police at the Stonewall Inn nightclub raid on June 27, 1969, in New York City.

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Stonewall: Explaining Obama's Gay-Rights Historic Reference

President Obama made history in his inaugural address when he mentioned Stonewall in the same breath as Selma, the Alabama town considered the birthplace of the black-rights movement. A historian discusses what happened at that New York bar in 1969 that kindled the nation's gay-rights movement.

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