Sentences with phrase «as the civil rights meetings»

No one stood outside to take down the names of those who attended the night freedom rallies, as the civil rights meetings were called.

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This pronouncement, along with Johnson's (and executive chairman Howard Schultz's) apology, meetings with community leaders, and enlisting the guidance of civil rights leaders such as former Attorney General Eric Holder and the NAACP's Sherrilyn Ifill, ensures that this incident and the specter of racial bias will remain in the public's mind beyond a few days.

I answered the door and was surprised to meet a well - dressed man and woman who introduced themselves as agents of a well - known American federal agency that investigates terrorism, counterintelligence, cybercrime, public corruption, civil rights, organised crime, white - collar crime, violent crime and weapons of mass destruction (and which shall remain unnamed here).

Although it might also include opposing government encroachment on civil rights, such as, banning personal prayer in school, banning student led prayer groups and meet - at - the - flag - pole groups, and banning Muslism garb.

Last month, Department of Justice investigators met with the Garner family and NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill as part of their investigation to see if Officer Daniel Pantaleo should be charged with violating Garner's civil rights for fatally choking him.

He describes King as «the conscience of the civil rights movement,» and Hamm met Kennedy on the Indiana State campus in 1968, several weeks before he was assassinated.

«We tried to get a meeting... as fast as we could» with the department's Office for Civil Rights, Rogers says.

Long before they would alter history as the leaders the civil rights movement, Martin Luther King Jr and Coretta Scott King met on their university campus.

W Magazine Taraji P. Henson, always fun, talks about getting the acting bug, auditioning for Precious and falling in love with «Cookie» on Empire even though she didn't want to do TV again AV Club Taraji also has a new leading film role as civil rights activist Ann Atwater who in 1971 had meetings with the Klu Klux Klan leader on reducing violence.

Instead, it offers instructions on how schools should strengthen oversight of their disciplinary processes in order to meet their obligations under Title IV and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, as applied to discrimination on grounds of race.

As reported in several news outlets, we understand that this meeting was part of a broader review of 2014's «Dear colleague» letter and other civil rights protections.

For the first time, he met blacks in leadership positions and was mentored by the longtime director of the Milwaukee area's anti-poverty commission, Donald Sykes, as well as civil rights champion Howard Fuller and others.

The FEAs have taken many forms, including: sheltered instruction observation protocol (SIOP) implementation in Texas; community - based equity assessment in Texas; IDRA's Focusing on Language and Academic Instructional Renewal (FLAIR) program implementation in reading in Louisiana; gender equity also in Louisiana; implementation of a multicultural framework in staff development to support student success in New Mexico; parent leadership in New Mexico; unitary status planning in Arkansas; English as a second language (ESL) classroom strategies in Arkansas; service learning in Oklahoma; and meeting civil rights requirements under the law in Oklahoma.

As a reminder, the Maine Department of Education (DOE) has announced a partnership with TransACT Communications to support compliance with the new Parent and Family Engagement requirements under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) and to help schools meet the civil rights obligations of schools in working with English Learners (EL) and their families.

Our December 2010 complaint against the policy has been sitting at the U. S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights, apparently just collecting dust, while CPS massages the same failed policy — a handful of changes were made at the May 2012 Board meeting, including dropping poor attendance as a factor and changing a couple of terms.

As a child, he grew up listening to the message of civil rights pioneers like Rosa Parks and King, whom he would eventually meet.

Lewis and Lyon first met in the 1960s, when Lewis was serving as chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and Lyon was a principal photographer of the Southern Civil Rights Movement and a staff member of SNCC.

The members first met in artist Romare Bearden's Harlem loft during that hot summer of 1963 to discuss the «Negro image» as it was at that time and how it might be used in the Civil Rights movement and beyond.

Joyner's «four generations» begin with Spiral collective painters such as Norman Lewis and Richard Mayhew, who met in the early 1960's in New York at the studio of Romare Bearden to discuss what it meant to be an artist of color at the clarion call of the civil rights movement.

This information is about your rights and your responsibilities as a self - represented litigant involved in a civil court proceeding in Canada, and what you should expect from the judges, court staff and lawyers you will meet along the way.

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