Sentences with phrase «black citizens of the city»

Yet, Detroit also has a history of honoring powerful men who knew better but still punished the black citizens of the city.

Not exact matches

On Monday December 5, 1955, Martin Luther King, Jr., newly appointed head of the Montgomery Improvement Association, stood behind his pulpit in that Alabama city and urged its black citizens to join together in a bus boycott to protest the indignity of segregated seating.

Two years ago, the Czechs were in the streets of Prague facing Russian tanks, not because of compassion for human want and misery, but because they were not free; the Vietnamese continue to resist America, as they did Japan and France before us, not because of hunger for food but hunger to determine their own destinies; black militants are in the streets of our cities today, not because they are famished — though poverty and want still stalk our land, particularly black communities — but because black citizens, more than any others, have been politically isolated and impotent, unable to act in their own governance.

Yes, the citizens of Saratoga Springs elected a token black woman to be their mayor just to have a token minority in their city government.

You should know that it was discouraging and painful to see and hear Black and Hispanic Senators standing up on the Senate Floor to fight in favor of having senior citizens, the poor and the needy in the City of New York to pay the 5 cents (5 cents) fee for each plastic bag.

They are in black and white with hints of color that tell the film noir tales of the citizens of Basin City and how their lives cross paths in a mix of booze, broads, and guns.

For a year, virtually all of the black citizens in that city walked or carpooled everywhere, to the point where the bus system was almost bankrupted and relented.