Tag: civil rights
group name: renewedactivist
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August 13, 2007 12:33 PM EDT --
Before Rosa Parks, there was Irene Morgan Kirkaldy. On a hot July morning in 1944, Mrs. Kirkaldy had just suffered a miscarriage, and she needed to sit down for the Greyhound Bus ride from Gloucester, . . .
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April 04, 2008 03:37 PM EDT --
Medgar Wiley Evers was born on July 2, 1925, in Decatur, Mississippi, and served in World War II before moving on to major in business at Alcorn State University.
Medgar . . .
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February 08, 2008 01:24 PM EST --
San Francisco--- The San Francisco chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union filed several lawsuits in Federal District Court against the Catholic Church as well as several prominent Evangelical . . .
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June 22, 2006 07:50 AM EDT --
On August 6, 1964 - less than one month after LBJ signed the civil rights act - three civil rights workers were murdered in Sandtown, Mississippi.
Michael Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman had . . .
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May 04, 2008 08:09 AM EDT --
On September 15, 1963, Denise McNair (11), Addie Mae Collins (14), Cynthia Wesley (14) and Carole Robertson (14) were in Sunday School at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, when . . .
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September 26, 2006 09:34 AM EDT --
I agree the "freedom of speech" is as American as the Bill of Rights. I agree that stating your beliefs without fear of persecution is what makes this country great. However, crossing . . .
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April 21, 2007 12:00 AM EDT --
In the spring of 1964, I was a senior at Queens College in New York City, an English major with an unmapped future and unable to take my situation seriously despite the growing likelihood that . . .
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May 29, 2007 10:33 AM EDT --
The first African slaves arrived in Virginia in 1619.
Kunte Kinte, his daughter Kizzy, and her son George noticed that every time the whites "massas" became frightened--most likely by the threat . . .
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May 06, 2009 07:31 PM EDT --
When asked today about the passage of the marriage equality bill in Maine by ABC correspondent Jake Tapper, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs had the following to say:
Jake Tapper: Does the . . .
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November 10, 2007 09:08 AM EST --
The Government Got All of AT&T's Internet and Voice Traffic
ALICE TURNER - eFluxMedia. com
http://www.efluxmedia.com/news_The_Government_Got_All_of_ATTs_Internet_and_Voice_Traffic_10423.html . . .
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December 10, 2007 05:43 AM EST --
No history of the 1960s is complete without examining Rosa Parks and her incredible role in the birth of the civil rights movement.
(This is the beginning of a series on The Sixties I . . .
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July 05, 2007 06:35 PM EDT --
In 1960, my father and I bet a dime on the Presidential election. He was sure that Nixon would win, and I knew that John F. Kennedy was the ticket. I won the dime. I was five . . .
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May 16, 2006 02:01 AM EDT --
On May 2, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Reverend Abernathy and Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth lead a protest march in Birmingham, Alabama.
At that time, Birmingham had been one of the most racially segregated . . .
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September 24, 2006 01:02 AM EDT --
By JULIA PRESTON
Published: September 22, 2006
The following is an excerpt from the article published in the New York Times:
Mr. Ivicevich, a 69-year-old family farmer, is not given to . . .
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October 19, 2006 10:56 PM EDT --
I find it REALLY ODD that we complain about immigrants working in our country but we are willing to provide FREE MONEY with NO return on our investment (not even a measly U.N. vote when needed). . . .
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April 28, 2009 01:58 PM EDT --
With the California Supreme Court set to rule on the validity of Proposition 8 sometime over the next 30 days, it seems like a good time to make a prediction.
On November 4, 2008 Californians voted . . .
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December 12, 2007 05:16 PM EST --
My mom and I went down to the West side of town, where the old Western Union Pacific railroad used to be, long before the Delta Center was built.
I was 11; my mom was 35. We were the only white . . .
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January 17, 2007 05:48 PM EST --
What would Martin say?
By Meredith Moise
Associate Director of Religious Affairs
www.nbjc.org
On Monday, January 15th, many of us got the day off of work in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King. . . .
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May 06, 2009 01:07 PM EDT --
Today, Maine became the 5th state to reckognize marriage equality for same sex couples and the second state to do so by legislative action. Governor Baldacci signed the "Act to End Discrimination . . .
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October 13, 2006 02:39 PM EDT --
"Mass arrests of innocent people, it's unconstitutional in my view."
An astute characterization of the arrest policy in Baltimore City. What's surprising is that it came from the mouth . . .
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