Access Restriction(s): Unrestricted. Use Restriction(s): UnrestrictedCivil Rights March on Washington, D.C. [A wide-angle view of marchers along the mall, showing the Reflecting Pool and the Washington Monument.], 08/28/1963. ARC Identifier 542045 / Local Identifier 306-SSM-4D(80)10. Item from Record Group 306: Records of the U.S. Information Agency, 1900 - 1992.Still Picture Records Section, Spec
We are very excited about the blog THIS WEEK. After our discussion of William Voegeli's excellent Wall Street Journal piece two weeks ago, we engaged in a discussion with Dr. Voegeli via email. We all agreed to reprint that exchange here for the purposes of stimulating additional dialogue. Though Dr. Voegeli did not have time to write a formal response to our response to his response (dizzy yet
THIS WEEK, we seek to situate Professor William Voegeli’s excellent article (“Civil Rights and the Conservative Movement”) from The Wall Street Journal’s website in the context of Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Joseph N. Cappella’s new book Echo Chamber: Rush Limbaugh and the Conservative Media Establishment (Oxford University Press).Echo Chamber provides a thorough, theoretically-grounded a
Washington – A federal grand jury in Jackson, Miss., returned a three-count indictment against Frank E. Melton, the mayor of Jackson, Miss., and his two bodyguards, Jackson police officers Michael Recio and Marcus Wright. The three men were charged in connection with a conspiracy to tear down a private home in Jackson and thereby violate the civil rights of the owner and resident of that home, a
Famous for his undying enthusiasm for hard work and public education, Booker T. Washington at around the turn of the 20th century became the best spokesman for the black community, at least according to white people. He led the Tuskegee Institute and preached messages of self-reliance, urging blacks to keep improving their economic roles - but to not demand social equality - until they had somehow
The American Civil Rights Movement has been a long but primarily nonviolent struggle to bring full equality under the law to all Americans, regardless of race, creed, color, sex, sexual orientation, nationality, origin, philosophy, disability, age, or in general, any other such characteristic. The Movement has been having a lasting impact on our society, showing the world its tactics, the increase
This is another reason why churches should have their tax-exempt status removed!
Any Gay person who attends the LDS Church, the Roman Catholic Church, or any church that in any way discriminates against LGBT people is not only a masochist, but by his/her support of that institution is lending credibility and moral authority to that church and its officials.
By a Gay person's mere attendance at
By Kevin Canessa Jr.The Hudson LineNUTLEY — A senior partner at the law firm Bisceglie & DeMarco says the firm has initiated civil litigation in federal court on behalf of Donna Koeppel against the Township of Nutley and members of its police department for violation of her civil rights.According to Angelo Bisceglie, a tort claim filed by Bisceglie & DeMarco with the municipality lists a
From Scott Hedges (and quite funny, too):
This is a site selling the “Linne” which is a prefab shed, with modernist intentions. I think you’ll have to agree that this site deserves an award for all out Nordic chutzpah. Make sure you have your speakers turned up when you open this site. Never before have the [...]
Kuwait University Professor Dr. Khalifa Alhamida told a reporter, “Sometimes discrimination is needed in society.” He justified qotas aHt Kuwait Unversity which require hgher GPAs for women than men since women now constitute two-thirds of university enrollment. It is common for many Kuwait men to travel abroad in search of education while few women take [...]
The Politico.com story from yesterday brought to public light the questionnaire he filed out prior to his 1996 campaign for the Illinois state senate. The resume that is attached to the questionnaire alerted me to the...
This from the School Law Blog:...David Hoff reports here in his NCLB: Act II blog that a coalition of civil rights groups has filed a friend-of-the-court brief urging a federal appeals court to reconsider its ruling that revived a major challenge to the No Child Left Behind Act as an unfunded federal mandate.The groups are joining the side of U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, who earlier this month asked the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, in Cincinnati, to reconsider a ruling by a three-judge panel of the court in Pontiac School District v. Spellings. The court ruled that the states were not on clear notice of their potential financial obligations when they agreed to accept federal funding under the No Child Left Behind law...
Big news for all secular Americans came out yesterday. The Secular Coalition for America has joined the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR), the oldest and most respected civil rights organization in America. This marks the first time atheists will be represented in the civil rights movement. According to Secular Coalition Director, Lori Lipman Brown, it also says a great deal about the LCCR that they are willing to include us.You can find the full press release issued by the Secular Coalition for America here. This is a historic moment and one which I hope will someday mark the beginning of the end of anti-atheist bigotry in America.Recognition that the nontheistic minority must be included in the struggle for civil rights marks a milestone. There are several religious groups within LCCR's coalition, but the Secular Coalition for America is the first nontheist (atheists, humanists, and other Americans without a god belief) advocacy group to be included. Both organizations a
Major League Baseball today announced that the Chicago White Sox will play the New York Mets in the 2008 Major League Baseball Civil Rights Game. The Civil Rights Game, which will be played on March 29th in Memphis, pays tribute to one of our country's most significant eras of social change and honors Major League Baseball's involvement in the historic struggle through which legendary
Discrimination? Debra Lafave and Kelsey Peterson
The National Association for the Advancement of Mexicans (NAAM) held a press conference today complaining that American school systems systematically discriminate Mexican teenage boys by denying them access to the best looking American teachers. Spokesman Jaime Escobar:
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Bad Dog. It looked like Duane Chapman was rallying. Now more trouble for the Dog. It was revealed just hours ago that the Bounty Hunter was sold out by his son PUNK. The tapes which have caused all the uproar were sold by his son PUNK to the National Enquirer for a "large amount of money. Now a civil rights leader is saying: Get the Dog OFF television.From the National Enquirer:This is awful. This man should not have a show on television!"Tamika Mallory — who heads the Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network's Decency Initiative — lashed out at Duane "Dog" Chapman after hearing a tape of the bounty hunter's racist rants."I think the A&E network should uphold their standards, which should be that people are not allowed to use demeaning language toward another racial group and marginalize them."Maybe just the first in a series of calls for the Dog's permanent TV banishment? Or will the Bounty Hunter make a comeback?EARLIER:Dog Gets Punk'ed!Dog's son, Punk put him in the dogh
Today we tell about W.E.B. Du Bois. He was an African-American writer, teacher and protest leader.William Edward Burghardt Du Bois fought for civil rights for black people in the United States. During the nineteen twenties and nineteen thirties, he was the person most responsible for the changes in conditions for black people in American society. He also was responsible for changes in the way they thought about themselves.William Du Bois was the son of free blacks who lived in a northern state. His mother was Mary Burghardt. His father was Alfred Du Bois. His parents had never been slaves. Nor were their parents. William was born into this free and independent African-American family in eighteen sixty-eight in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.William's mother felt that ability and hard work would lead to success. She urged him to seek an excellent education. In the early part of the century, it was not easy for most black people to get a good education. But William had a good experienc
To Secure These Rights: The Report of President Harry S Truman’s Committee on Civil Rights (The Bedford Series in History and Culture), Steven F. Lawson
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin’s; 2003
Genre: Historical
Pages: 200
Rating: 4 stars
As part of the Bedford Series, this document contains both primary source documents and biographical/historical information. It would be a great resource for students who would have both the primary sources for first hand historical experience and biographical, factual information to place the documents within the correct historical framework. Context is often missing when it comes to primary sources and students don’t get as much out of them as they should because they don’t truly understand the significance lacking appropriate context. Great for students. Hey, great for anyone who has an interest in Civil Rights. This specific book is geared towards the Civil Rights of the 1940s, during the Truman Administration, which cast
World crude oil prices jumped to a record $79 a barrel today — coinciding with depressing projections from the IEA that we can all look forward to continued elevated gas prices for the indefinite future.
On Friday, a Cincinnati appeals court threw out a lawsuit brought by a group of civil rights activities challenging Bush’s intrusive domestic surveillence program.
Boeing says it’s unveiled the world’s most environmentally friendly plane ever, the 787 Dreamliner.
From the Blogs
Why did Bush invoke executive privilege this morning?
Grist examines the curious absense of minority voices in the environmental movement, in The Unbearable Whiteness of Green.
Environmental Tip of the Day: Take the Ecological Footprint Quiz!
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The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights is the leading coalition of organizations committed to civil rights in the U.S., and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund is the major research and education organization supporting civil rights organizations.
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More and more colleges are leading trips through the South -- to cities such as Memphis, where King was shot in 1968, Little Rock, Arkansas, Atlanta, Selma, Alabama, and Jackson -- to help students understand the long, bitter struggle for equality.The trips bring events of that period to life and provide students with insights they could not get in a classroom, say officials of Southern Methodist University, sponsor of the tour Matlock joined."Seeing Medgar Evers' house was sobering because we saw how that family had to live back in that time," said Matlock, describing the home where the Mississippi NAACP field secretary was fatally shot. It is in Jackson, the tour's first stop. "The house was designed with no front door. They had to live on the floor. They were prisoners in their home."In 2005, SMU created its Civil Rights Pilgrimage Travel Seminar, which takes students during spring break to historical sites. Matlock, who works in the university's Human Resources department, trave
as if gonzo wasn't screwing up the doj enough, a new report has come out displaying the utter lack of diversity at the justice department's civil rights division. in the civil rights division's criminal section, only 2 of 50 lawyers are black...the same number as in 1978, when the total staff was less than half what it is now. the department's records across several divisions show few or no african-americans or hispanics being hired at all. minorities are more than twice as likely to leave or be passed over for management position. and on top of all that is this staggering statistic: One Justice Department chart revealed that over a six-year period the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission had referred 3,200 individual complaints of discrimination to the civil rights division for action. They have resulted in only six lawsuits for race discrimination.6 out of 3200...that 0.1875% for y'all keeping score at home.
An exhibit of works by world-renowned civil rights photographer Ernest C. Withers will be on display during March and April at the Cooper Campus of Bluegrass Community & Technical College (BCTC).The event is the result of a joint venture between the University of Kentucky Office of Multicultural and Academic Affairs and the BCTC Multicultural Affairs Office.Forty of Withers’ photographs will be on display March 19 through April 9 in the main hallway of BCTC’s Oswald Building, located at 470 Cooper Dr., Lexington. The exhibit will be open during regular college hours, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. It is free and open to the public.Ernest Withers was born in Memphis, Tenn., in 1922 and began his career in photography while serving in the Army. After fulfilling his military duty, Withers returned to Memphis and during that time photographed many pivotal moments of the civil rights movement, including the Montgomery bus boycott, the Medgar Evers’ funeral, and the assass
*U2 front man and activist Bono has been announced as the recipient of the prestigious Chairman's Award at the 38th NAACP Image Awards.
The outspoken humanitarian, who champions various causes in Africa - including AIDS awareness and the battle against hunger - joins other NAACP honorees Bill Cosby and Soledad O'Brien, who will receive the Hall of Fame Award and the President's Award, respectively
HOUSE OF GLITZ: "BONO IS AWESOME HE DESERVES THIS WHAT HE HAS DONE FOR THE PEOPLE OF AFRICA WORDS CAN'T DESCRIBE!!! HAT'S OFF TO BONO"!!!!
One can only say: It's about time. There are many unsolved cases from that time, when men and women were killed or disappeared under suspicious circumstances. One of those cases now supposedly being seriously examined by the FBI occurred in the section of Georgia where my roots are deep: Four young black people, two couples, were slaughtered in Walton County, where some of my relatives still reside and where I've found the burial sites of relatives going back as far as some of my great-great grandparents. The lynching took place on July 25, 1946. The victims were Roger and Dorothy Malcom; Dorothy's brother George and his wife Mae. George was a veteran of WW2, one of those Blacks who, by their very exposure to the world beyond near-slavery that existed on the cotton farms, were considered "uppity" -- and, thus, a threat. White men were accustomed to having their way with their Black women servants; that may have sparked a fight that led Roger Malcom to stab the son of Dorothy's boss
