American Civil Rights: Biographies Edition 1. (American Civil Rights Reference Library)
Facing South (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
The Birmingham, Ala. resident and Army veteran fell to his knees but never dropped the American flag he carried through the violence of 1965's Bloody Sunday civil rights march. Armstrong died this week at 86.
Joe. My. God. (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
Somebody really really doesn't know her history. Rep. Dennis Cardoza (D-CA) gets up to set her straight. Good stuff. Subscribe to Joe.My.God.
Pam's House Blend (Free subscription) | yesterday
Ah, it's pathetically ignorant, perpetually re-elected NC U.S. Congresscritter Virginia Foxx opening her trap again to contribute batsh*ttery to the public discourse and historical record with the ludicrous claim on the House floor that the Republican party had a progressive record on civil rights and Congress passed legislation in the 1960s without much help from Dems. ( Think Progress ): During...
Kansas City Star (Free subscription) | yesterday
Maine author Phillip Hoose said winning a National Book Award for his chronicle of a young civil rights pioneer was all the more moving because she took the stage with him when he accepted the honor.
Wonkette (Free subscription) | yesterday
Unfortunate Rep. Virginia Foxx, who throws words like “tarbaby” around in casual discourse, for some reason said this about the Democrats today: “Just as we were the people who passed the civil rights bills back in the ’60s without very much help from our colleagues across the aisle. They love to engage in revisionist history.” [...] Republican - United States - Lyndon...
U.S. News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Republican House member says it was the GOP, not LBJ or the Democrats, who passed civil rights laws.
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | yesterday
Maine author Phillip Hoose said winning a National Book Award for his chronicle of a young civil rights pioneer was all the more moving because she took the stage with him when he accepted the honor.
The Political Carnival (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sounds like North Carolina has "revised" their textbooks like Texas has tried to. She is such a piece of work. Thanks to FDL for the vid.
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday
Maine author Phillip Hoose said winning a National Book Award for his chronicle of a young civil rights pioneer was all the more moving because she took the stage with him when he accepted the honor.
Star Tribune (Free subscription) | yesterday
He based his book on the true story of Claudette Colvin, who as a 15-year-old schoolgirl was dragged off a bus in Montgomery, Ala., for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman. She made her stand against racism and prejudice months before a similar incident made Rosa Parks a national symbol for the civil rights struggle of the 1950s, which led to landmark court decisions and new legislation to...
Underbelly (Free subscription) | yesterday
There's a curious case of memory loss that seems to be afflicting both left and right this morning over the history of civil rights legislation. Link , ( link ). Start with Republican Rep. Virginia Foxx of North Carolina: Just as we were the people who passed the civil rights bills back in the '60s without very much help from our colleagues across the aisle," said Fox. "They love to engage...
Alternet (Free subscription) | yesterday
Rep. Dennis Cardoza (D-Calif.), stunned, tried to set Foxx straight, pointing to the role of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations of the 1960s. "John Lewis, a member of this House, was beaten on the Edmund Pettus bridge to get that civil rights legislation passed," Cardoza reminded Foxx. "Tell John Lewis that he wasn't part of getting that legislation passed."
reappropriate (Free subscription) | yesterday
I kind of wish I could go to this: The first national Asian American civil rights conference to be in L.A. The 2009 Advancing Justice Conference: Asian American and Pacific Islanders Building New Foundations for Civil Rights is an inaugural national civil rights and social justice conference expected to draw community and government leaders and legal professionals from [...]
Original Pechanga's Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Apparently, Representative Dianne Watson's support for the Cherokee Freedmen has drawn the wrath of the Cherokee Nation. Led by Chad Smith, who once said that the Cherokee's slaves were treated well , they will spend thousands of dollars to support Rep. Watson's opponent . The Cherokee Nation is supporting the primary opponent of a California congresswoman who has been at odds with the tribe over its...
BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday
One of Derry's best-known civil rights campaigners and founding member of the Derry Labour Party, Willie Breslin dies.
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wei12 | 11/12/2009
Youth is the quality that we normally associate with the Kennedys, yet it was Ted Kennedy's longevity that made him such an irrepressible force on Capitol Hill. Near universal is the view that he was Washington 's most influential lawmaker of...
wei12 | 11/12/2009
Youth is the quality that we normally associate with the Kennedys, yet it was Ted Kennedy's longevity that made him such an irrepressible force on Capitol Hill. Near universal is the view that he was Washington 's most influential lawmaker of...
kornel9z1vr | 11/06/2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) –Los Angeles Clippers basketball team owner Donald Sterling has agreed to pay $2.725 million to settle a housing discrimination lawsuit, the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday. Sterling, longtime owner of the NBA team and a real estate mogul, was accused of discriminating against blacks, Hispanics and families with children at apartment buildings he owns. The government said...
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