The Americans’ actions at the 1972 Games had echoes of Tommie Smith and John Carlos. But today their story has been largely forgotten. “The whole history of the Olympic movement is rife with antisemitism and racism,” said Harry Edwards
The Republican transformation of the federal judiciary in the 1860s and 1870s served the party well in the Civil War. But in the end, Lincoln and Grant’s high court appointments ended up being disastrous for civil rights.
For only 58 years of the nation’s 246-year-old economy, women have been able to avail themselves — thanks to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act — of the full citizenship that we effectively purchase through our jobs.
History books have called my father an activist, a community organizer, a freedom fighter, among other things. But they don’t use a phrase that my dad has used to describe himself: a war general.
"Everything is on the table and clearly has been," said one observer. "Marriage equality. Griswold. Loving. Don't ever listen to anyone who tells you such fears are silly or overblown."
His sense of purpose and vision for his life is unobscured and unencumbered. This is a man on a mission, the grandest and most noble of missions: to save a country and his countrymen from themselves, to insist that morality ought to dictate policy.
“Negroes have benefited from a limited change that was emotionally satisfying but materially deficient... Jobs are harder to create than voting rolls.”
The tragic impacts of the September 11 attacks stretch far beyond the nearly three thousand people who lost their lives 20 years ago. Over the last two decades, government forces have trampled on civil rights and liberties in the name of 9/11.
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