Sentences with phrase «as civil rights legislation»

And yet he pushed through great advances such as civil rights legislation by sheer force of personality even when Democrats disagreed with him.

So a blow was struck that had much the same effect as the Civil Rights legislation, but in the area of information access that the Civil Rights Act did not cover.

Not exact matches

In recent weeks, racial justice activists and civil rights groups have noted that gun violence in black communities, rather than inspiring reform legislation or prompting national outcry, is often framed as the result of black people being unable to control themselves.

• Note this, from the announcement of a press call on the unions» desired card - check legislation, when the bill was before Congress: «Prominent interfaith leaders, including Rev. Jim Wallis of Sojourners, Kim Bobo of Interfaith Worker Justice, Bishop Greg Rickel, and Rabbi Mordechai Liebling, will hold a press conference call to talk about restoring workers» freedom to organize as a moral imperative and civil and human right.»

The south will vote GOP again as they have since LBJ supported and signed Civil Rights Legislation.

The irony, of course, is that while Helms» counterattack on the civil rights legislation left Democrats aghast, they saw nothing unseemly in their own efforts to paint him as Grand Kleagle of the US.

Showing perhaps too much confidence in nonviolence, education, legislation and litigation as the only appropriate means to eliminate cultural prejudice, the editors never wavered in their support for civil rights in general.

The Daily Mail opposes it for as many of the right reasons as it is now possible for a secular paper to admit to: «This legislation,» it said, «which not even Stonewall, the most persistent gay rights group, was agitating for, is not just about allowing homosexual couples to have a wedding rather than a civil partnership.

Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D - N.Y.) hosted a nurse - in on the Capitol's Cannon Terrace last month as she reintroduced federal legislation to amend the Civil Rights Act to protect women from employment discrimination for using a breast pump or feeding babies during breaks.

Coming from a family that had fought on the Confederate side in the Civil War, and in his early career a bastion of the Old South which resisted every move towards civil rights for black Americans, it fell to him, as president, to put forward the most significant piece of civil rights legislation in the nation's hisCivil War, and in his early career a bastion of the Old South which resisted every move towards civil rights for black Americans, it fell to him, as president, to put forward the most significant piece of civil rights legislation in the nation's hiscivil rights for black Americans, it fell to him, as president, to put forward the most significant piece of civil rights legislation in the nation's hiscivil rights legislation in the nation's history.

• Another major piece of legislation hailed by lawmakers as an important civil rights milestone was a ban on the controversial practice of using therapy to alter a young person's sexual orientation or gender identity.

The defence secretary spoke out as the coalition was accused of spoiling tactics after it responded to a call for heterosexual couples to be granted the same rights to enter into civil partnerships by announcing plans for a review that would be delayed for five years once the legislation is passed.

His grandmother lived with a disability, as well as his father (at the end of his life), He sees disability access as a basic civil right and pledged to work aggressively in support of this type of legislation if elected.

As were a long - stalled transgender civil rights measure — the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA)-- and a bill that would bar mental health professionals from providing so - called «reparative therapy» (known in the legislation as «sexual orientation change efforts,» or SOCE) on patients who are minorAs were a long - stalled transgender civil rights measure — the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA)-- and a bill that would bar mental health professionals from providing so - called «reparative therapy» (known in the legislation as «sexual orientation change efforts,» or SOCE) on patients who are minoras «sexual orientation change efforts,» or SOCE) on patients who are minors.

This stands in contrast to the U.S. Congress, where from the 1930s through the 1960s, many Southern legislators voted for progressive - minded economic legislation such as Social Security and other New Deal laws that expanded the role of government, while maintaining a much more conservative outlook on social issues, most prominently civil rights.

Frank Langella («The Americans») is strong as always as LBJ mentor Sen. Richard Russell, a good ol' boy who parted ways with the President on the key issue of the day and warned of the Democratic Party losing the South for generations if civil rights legislation passed.

Indeed, a coalition of civil rights groups recently raised concerns about new federal CTE legislation because of what they see as a too - limited role for Uncle Sam in ensuring underserved populations don't get tracked into low - quality «voc - tech» programs.

As Obama noted in 2014, «During his first twenty years in Congress, he opposed every civil rights bill that came up for a vote, once calling the push for federal legislation a farce and a shame.»

This includes the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (also known as No Child Left Behind), the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), and all applicable civil rights legislation.

In the firm's early days, Bolick was known for his work opposing affirmative action legislation, and acted as one of the top strategists endeavoring to hold up the passage of the 1991 Civil Rights bill.

First passed in 1965, ESEA is well - recognized as one of the most important and lasting pieces of civil rights legislation.

Johnson's own laudable efforts to pass civil rights legislation, as much driven by his own morality as by political calculations about winning higher office, waned after he felt that Martin Luther King and others didn't cater enough to his prodigious - yet - fragile ego.

Protect civil rights as the foundation of a viable healthy democracy, framed in the Declaration of Independence, guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution and codified by civil rights legislation.

Civil rights groups were concerned that the legislation would not track subgroups, such as students with disabilities, students of color and English Language Learners.

The civil rights movement of the 1960s and»70s gave birth to legislation such as 1965's Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which launched the Title I program to help level the playing field for disadvantaged kids.

We believe that strong implementation of ESSA's Title I provisions at the state, district, and school levels is essential for the new legislation to fulfill its moral obligations as a civil rights law.

Though President John F. Kennedy introduced civil rights legislation shortly before his death, it was his successor, Johnson, who was able to get the legislation passed and move on to other aspects of what became known as the Great Society.

As President Obama stated when this legislation was signed, «It upholds the core value that animated the original Elementary and Secondary Education Act signed by President Lyndon Johnson — the value that says education, the key to economic opportunity, is a civil right.

President Johnson enacted some of the most iconic social and welfare legislation in the history of the United States, overseeing he Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and» 68, as well as the beginning of the «War on Poverty.»

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The conservatives (denialists) in a society see themselves as being near the top of the heap, mechanisms that bring about major social changes are likely to be bad for their position, in comparison the liberals (alarmists) see such mechanisms as an opportunity to bring about social change to their advantage, examples of how conservatives fight against such changes can be seen all over the place, from giving women the vote, to civil rights legislation, to gay marriage, etc..

Ironically, our civil partnership legislation provides more rights than US state - based civil marriage because the latter can not include federal rights in critical areas such as immigration, tax and health benefits.

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