Tag: civil rights
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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 25, 2008 10:10 AM EDT --
Whom Can You Trust?
When I was a young person over 70 years ago, my family had a lot of trust in our American government. After all, it was founded on promoting the rights of the 'common man'. . . .
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June 12, 2009 08:27 AM EDT --
Huge debates over same sex marriage are raging across the United States and have claimed many victims. The latest being Miss California's Carrie Prejean. It is widely believed that she was fired . . .
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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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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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March 05, 2006 07:17 AM EST --
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably . . .
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November 22, 2006 01:14 PM EST --
You won't be shocked to learn what the New York Times thinks of laws allowing citizens to carry their guns in public.
As a last little gift to America, Senator George Allen, who was narrowly defeated . . .
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April 10, 2008 09:26 AM EDT --
I remain enchanted by all the people I have met on Gather and the inspirations that many of them bring along with them. The following was inspired by and is dedicated to my friend Lydia (misszola.gather.com). . . .
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August 02, 2008 01:24 PM EDT --
Barack committed the worst blunder of his campaign by delibertly and wrongly accusing President Bush,McCain and other republicans of trying to make voters fear him because he is not"like all . . .
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February 10, 2009 10:17 AM EST --
Bus Ride
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March 14, 2009 09:34 AM EDT --
When people talk about the civil rights movements, the name that usually comes foremost is that of Martin Luther King. But there is another famous crusader who is not remembered so often, whose contribution . . .
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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 22, 2008 12:21 PM EDT --
Once again, we're seeing the cowardly little wingnuts around here engaging in shutting down American freedoms.
What is it about these unAmerican reichwingnut cowards that makes them feel . . .
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April 03, 2009 03:24 PM EDT --
Yes, Iowa has now joined California, Connecticut, and Massachusetts.
To deny rights to to ohers is to deny them for oneself.
This is from Lambda Legal:
Dear Friend, . . .
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April 23, 2009 08:51 AM EDT --
By Jessica Pieklo -- With the release of the torture memos has come a steady parade of Bush apologists, quick to defend the CIA tactics of waterboarding, walling, and stress positions. Mind you, these . . .
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November 25, 2009 12:50 AM EST --
I got about a hundred points to go to a $10 giftcard. I need all the help I can get, ladies & gentlemen, but the main object of this post is to wish you people a Happy Thanksgiving before . . .
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October 13, 2008 04:43 AM EDT --
As a youngster you grew up as a slave
Now you lock your youth in a cage
Your slogan back then read "Set Us free!"
Now you want to take that from me?
People fought against . . .
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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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April 12, 2006 07:14 PM EDT --
Do Illegal Immigrants Have Constitutional Rights
I made a comment taking exception to another author's claim that illegal immigrants have no rights. I suggested that it is important to . . .
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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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