Sentences with phrase «after civil rights»

In this tableau, they represent two faces of a generation that grew to adulthood after Vietnam, after the fantasies and tragedies of the 1960s, after the civil rights marches were over, when the cities were still smoldering but no longer burning.

Half a century after the civil rights movement, trial judges throughout Florida sentence blacks to harsher punishment than whites, a Herald - Tribune investigation found.

I was born just after the civil rights movement that ignited in the streets and in the courts transformed our nation — three years to the day after Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed.

Murray, Derek Conrad, Queering Post-Black Art: Artists Transforming African - American Identity After Civil Rights, published by I.B.Tauris, New York, NY, 2016 [ill., cover]

As someone born two decades after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, I received visual access to the civil - rights era predominantly through photographic documentation.

«I wanted to include Gordon Parks in the show and focus on 50 years after civil rights.

Simpson came of age in the 1980s, a generation after Civil Rights and Black Power movements marked by the emergence of identity politics and multiculturalism.

For example, at one of our Book - to - Screen Pitchfest, one of the authors pitched a book about what it was like to be the first African American police officers in Atlanta during and shortly after the Civil Rights movement.

In their article, «Decades after civil rights gains, black teachers a rarity in public schools» USA Today noted, «Because most white communities in the 1950s and 1960s preferred white teachers over black ones, court - ordered desegregation often ended the teaching careers of black educators.»

By Shawnta Barnes and David McGuire In their article, «Decades after civil rights gains, black teachers a rarity in public schools» USA Today noted, «Because most white communities in the 1950s and 1960s preferred white teachers over black ones, court - ordered desegregation often ended the teaching careers of black educators.»

Modeled after the civil rights era's citizenship and freedom schools, the new Sojourner Truth School for Social Change Leadership teaches skills for the Trump era.

The action comes despite a 2010 ruling from the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court that invalidated federal regulations allowing the practice after civil rights groups complained that teachers in the alternative programs - or internships - were disproportionately given classroom assignments at schools in low - income neighborhoods and those serving at - risk students.

Decades after civil rights gains, black teachers a rarity in public schools; about 82 % of teachers were white, down from 83 % eight years earlier.

It's a move that comes after civil rights investigators tossed out hundreds of complaints about schools with inaccessible websites.

As he notes, «Much more disturbing is that half a century after the civil rights battles were fought and won, liberalism remains much more interested in making excuses for blacks than in reevaluating efforts to help them.»

And so, that's a far reaching, very far reaching law and it was very much modeled after the Civil Rights, the 64 Civil Rights Statute and so forth.

At 40 or plus a woman is at her peak and interracial dating is not taboo for men her age, born after the civil rights 1960's, or younger.

WAKEFIELD — Preachers and politicians summoned Martin Luther King Jr.'s soaring religious language and his moving political rhetoric at a packed church service in Wakefield Monday morning, 83 years after the civil rights leader was born.

Trump lashed out at Rep. John Lewis on Saturday after the civil rights icon said he doesn't view Trump as a «legitimate president.»

My current ministry is taking care of widows and orphans, ministering to those with drug & alcohol problems — in other words doing what the true God would want; not going after the civil rights of millions of Americans — we need to keep church separated from hate — and stop trying to deny civil rights based on perceived religious doctrine.

«It was those kinds of things, but as more options opened some of that was diffused in some places,» she said, noting the increase in choices came after the civil rights movement of the 1960s.

You defenders of religion keep some interesting company: Osama Bin LLaden, Iraninan Mullahs, Saudi Wahabists (who will cut your head off in public if you preach anything but Islam), Joe Smith who preached that black people did not have souls (the church changed it mind after the civil rights act and are now bigotted against gay people), the Taliban, the pope and his child rapists, ignorant & stupid evangelicals who think that revelations is a roadmap to the future.

After the civil rights movement and the abolishment of segregation other tactics were used to keep blacks in all black communities.

Mormons were devout racists until suddenly in 1978 — more than 10 years after the Civil Rights Act.

However, they were allowed to function as servants, maids, and nannies (thus you will hear Mormons insist they were «allowed» in) In 1978 — more than 10 years after the civil rights act, the IRS finally threatened to take away their tax - free status.Man!

It is a sad testament to America's continued racism and segregation that half a century after the Civil Rights movement and MLK Jr. this is still considered news: that whites and blacks intermingle.

Cook spoke of his own values developed while growing up in Alabama only a few years after the civil rights battles in the South.

Not exact matches

After police brutally attacked civil rights protesters on «Bloody Sunday» in Selma, Ala., Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, «A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right.

Keeping Gitmo open was a move that would foster support from the U.S. Military and Attorney General Eric Holder, who came the President's aid after he was blasted by various civil rights organizations.

Demonstrators planned to gather again on Saturday in U.S. cities nationwide to protest against Trump, whose election they say poses a threat to their civil and human rights, a day after a protester was shot in Portland, Oregon.

The Democratic presidential candidate released a statement after the Department of Justice announced that it would be opening a civil rights investigation into the death of Alton Sterling: «Too many African American families mourn the loss of a loved one from a police - involved incident.

She sued under the Civil Rights Act, but the Supreme Court rejected her claim, narrowly construing the law to limit the opportunity for redress to within six months after «a discrete unlawful practice takes place.»

An Arab - American civil rights organization also asked director Clint Eastwood and actor Bradley Cooper to denounce hateful language directed at U.S. Arabs and Muslims after the release of the film.

Civil rights advocates howled: how could Ledbetter have known that the her bosses were paying her less than the menfolk so soon after they had taken the decision?

After the sweeping Republican election victory on Nov. 9, 2016, transgender people «are concerned for their safety, survival and legal rights in the coming years,» said Chase Strangio, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union who often works on transgender issues.

Former President Bill Clinton, Hillary's husband, severely damaged the relationship between Obama and the Clintons by comparing Obama to civil rights activist Jesse Jackson after he won the South Carolina primary in 2008.

Tesla shares were trading down on Tuesday after news of a civil rights class - action lawsuit against the automaker.

«It's a good step but just the first step for Uber,» said civil rights leader Jesse Jackson who recently met with Kalanick after pressuring Uber for years to release the demographics of its workforce.

In Guatemala in the mid-1990s, after a civil war that had lasted three decades, Catholic bishop Juan Gerardi mobilized the Catholic Church to conduct its own unofficial truth commission that uncovered over 14,000 human rights violations through a unique mode of investigation that supported victims pastorally.

She asked me to serve on the board of what became the King Center in Atlanta, which I did, but it soon became embroiled in the fractious politics of what was left of the civil rights leadership after Dr. King's death.

In a similar case, Kentucky clerk Kim Davis, a born - again Christian, was jailed briefly last year after she refused to allow her office to issue marriage licenses, igniting a national debate over religious freedom and civil rights.

You do realize the civil law given in Leviticus happens a LONG time after Genesis, right?

After Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested and identified, Mrs. Kennedy lamented that her husband hadn't even had the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights; his murderer had been a «silly little communist,» a fact Mrs. Kennedy thought had robbed Kennedy's death of «any meaning.»

The lecture he delivered is titled, «The Other America,» and features what most will recognize as a typical King speech through those years after the passing of the Civil Rights Bill and the Voting Rights Bill (three and two years before this appearance, respectively).

At 89, the civil rights legend chuckled when asked if he was back at 100 percent after suffering a stroke last year.

After Dr. King was killed, multiple other instances took the civil rights movement into something of what people would call an underground phase, and it's really just resurfaced on a national scale.

Yet after covertly helping civil rights groups set up a well - funded Voter Education Project in 1961, the administration failed to provide the protection that activists required if they were to survive the intimidation of segregationists and what passed for justice in southern courts.

The Kenyan President stood up to the American President after his chastisement, and pointed out that Kenyans do not agree with the enlightened superiority of the superpower in question, and are concerned with much more basic aspects of civil society, and affirmed their right to govern their own nation.

Some of the more notable of these expressions of discontent include the American [Know Nothing] Party, founded in the decade before the Civil War to counter the influence of immigrants; the Prohibition Party, founded after the Civil War to rid America of the scourge of demon rum; the Populist Party of the 1890s, which sought to remedy the lot of debtor farmers; and, in this century, the pro-segregation States» Rights Party of 1948.

I'm glad the U.S. legislates the biblical morality of civil rights for African Americans after a shameful history of oppression and slavery.