Showing posts with label civil rights movement. Show all posts
Showing posts with label civil rights movement. Show all posts
Jan 13, 2018

Opposition to King Holiday in 1983 Led by Wisconsin, Rep. Sensenbrenner and Deep South

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Dr. King is still reviled in Republican circles, and other white supremacists. Madison, Wisconsin—President Reagan signed the Rev. King...
Aug 29, 2013

Civil Rights Movement Is Right; GOP Is Wrong

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President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, and former Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter walk past the statue of President ...
Aug 28, 2013

Dream of Equality Is GOP's Nightmare, and the Deceitful James Sensenbrenner's

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Updated - Today, August 28, President Obama and 10,000s will mark the 50th anniversary of the March for Jobs and Freedom in D.C . Repub...
Aug 24, 2013

Civil Rights Movement v. the Republican Party

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Bus from Madison to D.C., 1963 Update : Just two months after five GOP justices gutted the Voting Rights Acts , Attorney General Eric Ho...
Aug 2, 2013

Democratic Party Vows to Protect Right to Vote Against GOP Obstruction

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Jimmy Lee Jackson was beaten, shot and killed by racist police while shielding his mother and father in 1965 during the historic voting...
Jul 19, 2013

Obama Gives Pitch-Perfect Remarks on Race, Treyvon and America at News Conference

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President Obama Speaks on Trayvon Martin In the setting of a news conference President Obama spoke from the White House James S. Brady P...
Sep 7, 2010

Remembering a Hero, Jefferson Thomas, May He Never Be Forgotten

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- America has many unsung heroes, some we remember, others are forgotten. One of the latter died this week, a man who helped to try bring ‘c...
Aug 28, 2010

The Dream

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I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Fi...
Jan 30, 2010

Gay Equity Ban in Cal Looks Doomed

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Dante Atkins has a piece in Kos , laying out the why a pro-gay marriage equity ruling in Perry, Stier, Katami and Zarrillo v. Schwarzenegger...
Sep 25, 2009

If An Agent Knocks

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As MSNBC was reporting on police efforts to disrupt the G-20 protesters in Pittsburgh, one element missing in its coverage is the explanati...
Jun 5, 2009

Georgia Voter Obstruction Halted by Obama DOJ

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The GOP will use most any tactic to obstruct the wrong kind of voter from voting. Via Election Law at Moritz , news from Georgia on GOP vot...