And in New York, dozens of people gathered at a Brooklyn cemetery on Sunday to mark the twentieth anniversary of the killing of Yusuf Hawkins. On August 23rd, 1989, the sixteen-year-old African American was shot twice by a white mob who had attacked him and three friends. In a ceremony at Hawkins’s grave site, the Reverend Al Sharpton said the murder helped set off a new civil rights movement in the northern United States.