Sentences with phrase «black civil rights»

Drawing inspiration from international black civil rights movements in North America, South Africa and the United States, Sol brought the same spirit of civil rights activism to Australia, fighting for equal rights for First Nations Australians... At a time when First Nations people were denied the same basic civil services such as access to the mainstream legal and medical system, Sol worked to ensure First Nations people had their own Aboriginal controlled services to fill the gap.

Black civil rights protesters the «Friendship Nine» to be cleared of civil rights crimes, Reuters

Of course there have been terrible crimes against members or suspected members of the LGBTQ community, and it might be fair to draw an analogy between some of those specific crimes, but not the American black civil rights struggle, not school segregation and bombing of churches, not the lynchings where in some places in the south any old tree may have been the site of a murder.

Featuring works by African American artists including Radcliffe Bailey, Ellen Gallagher, Glenn Ligon, Kerry James Marshall and Lorna Simpson, the exhibition explored how the black Civil Rights Movement in the United States influenced the struggle for civil rights in Derry and Northern Ireland.

It was also when the struggle for black civil rights became a defining — even unavoidable — feature of the American political landscape, both in moments of charged protest and those of provisional victory.

The exhibition looks at the Black Civil Rights movement through historical photographs, documents and contemporary art and explores how it impacted on Civil Rights in Derry and N. Ireland.

With All Deliberate Speed both obscures and reveals the Pulitzer - Prize winning, 1976 photograph of a white man assaulting a black civil rights lawyer with a pole bearing the American flag.

In what some people view as a second black civil rights movement, combative lines are drawn, and their tautness is evident even in the cushioned art world, which is shocked to discover, all of a sudden, that white artists are no longer automatically free to collect big rewards for telling the story of African America.

By demonstrating that personal integrity is worth fighting and even dying for, Cruse's graphic novel about a young white southerner coming out in the 1960s powerfully communicates how the black civil rights struggle influenced later gay activism.

This film explores the long struggle for black civil rights, reminding us that the pace of progress is often accompanied by conflict and compromise.

Using the kind of language more readily associated with past opponents of black civil rights, Ms. Dukes said that critics of the lawsuit «can march and have rallies all day long....

Black people in America were being discriminated against and this Christian minister wanted things to change - and they then have to guess the question: Why did Martin Luther King begin the black civil rights movement in America?

Originally they were created during the black civil rights movement, but their story is seen even more prevalent in today's society with gay rights.

The Ku Klux Klan's failure to defeat the black civil rights moment is well documented, but the group's lesser - known legacy may be its lasting impact on the U.S. political system, according to a paper published in the December issue of the American Sociological Review.

The black civil rights movement in the US during the 1950s pitched its whole agenda on the issue of equality.

And the Democrat [ic] Party and their black civil rights allies are partners in this genocide.»

The new women's movement of the 1960s also arose out of an alliance with and, then, a traumatic experience of rejection by the black civil rights and white male radical movements.

That energy has already shifted ideas about slavery, womens equality, black civil rights.

Tens of thousands attended his funeral or viewed his casket and images of his mutilated body were published in black magazines and newspapers, rallying popular black support and white sympathy across the U.S. Intense scrutiny was brought to bear on the condition of black civil rights in Mississippi, with newspapers around the country critical of the state.

The conquest of the political culture of the black community by the culture of the left has allowed someone like Farrakhan to gain an acceptance and support that far exceeds that of any comparable black demagogue in the past including Malcolm X, who in his lifetime, it should be remembered, was condemned and isolated by the leadership of the black civil rights movement precisely because of his rhetorical violence and racial politics.

That struggle entered one of its critical stages in the summer of 1964 when young black civil rights workers in Mississippi, aided by about 800 white college students from the North, tried to bring blacks in the Magnolia state...

The most eloquent angry spokesmen for the black civil rights movement were black themselves.

This and his influence on Martin Luther King, the champion of black civil rights in the USA, had a profound effect on the history of the last century.

When the bishops of Athens and Jerusalem turned deaf ears to struggles of social and moral importance, Jakovos committed the American Orthodox church to the black civil rights movement and marched with Martin Luther King, Jr., in Selma, Alabama.

I have no doubt that many of the people who opposed abolition, interracial marriage, protection of indigenous people, black civil rights, women's suffrage, etc. believed wholeheartedly that God was on their side and they were simply being faithful to God's Word.

With the Latest News now out about the nation's largest Black organization endorsing Gay marriage and calling for an end to the hate and citing the 14th Amendment, Coretta S. King, wife of the very famous Black civil rights leader, would have been immensely happy!

That struggle entered one of its critical stages in the summer of 1964 when young black civil rights workers in Mississippi, aided by about 800 white college students from the North, tried to bring blacks in the Magnolia state to a new level of political and social awareness.

Ronald Edwards, a black civil rights activist in Minneapolis who contacted Reuters at the request of the police department, said he believed the city's police chief was doing her best to improve race relations.

American Airlines Chief Executive Doug Parker said on Thursday that a move by the leading U.S. black civil rights group to warn black travelers off the airline was «obviously a disappointment.»

Not exact matches

Fifty years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. led a historic march in Washington, D.C. to advocate for civil rights for black Americans.

Democrats and civil rights groups called it an example of the Reagan administration intimidating black voters.

Lawmakers and advocates expressed concern Friday that Sessions could sideline or undo the Obama administration's civil rights efforts, which have included investigations of police departments for unconstitutional practices and lawsuits meant to protect the rights of transgender individuals and black voters.

In 1912 the civil rights activist W.E.B. DuBois endorsed Democratic candidate Woodrow Wilson for President and asked black voters to get behind Wilson's candidacy.

Barack Obama journeyed to Selma, Alabama, today both to pay homage to the civil - rights marchers who were clubbed by riot police on Bloody Sunday in 1965 and to show older black voters that he shares their values.

A protest against violence attacking black communities, the parade was one of the first public marches for civil rights.

According to the New York Times, black students have never been responsible for mass shootings that drove the national conversation about gun safety and minority schools have never been the targets of such attacks, leaving civil rights groups wondering why black students would be the focus when seeking to address an issue that plagues white, male students.

In excavating the story of King's visit to Harlem Hospital, I uncovered my grandfather's own fight for civil rights — and realized I'd misunderstood his legacy as a black doctor all along.

This works in tandem with designations like «Black Identity Extremism», a made up term by the FBI to attack Black organizers,» said Janaya Khan, a Black Lives Matter activist and organizer with the national civil rights group Color of Change.

Weldon J. Rougeau, a long - time civil rights activist, has considered the issue of diversity from many perspectives — as director of the office of federal contract compliance programs at the U.S. Department of Labor during the Carter administration, as president of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and even as a prisoner for 78 days (58 of them in solitary confinement) in a Baton Rouge, La., jail cell when he was a student activist.

ColorOfChange, an online civil rights organization «comprised of Black folks from every economic class,» announced in a press release that it has joined nearly a dozen groups and more than 200,000 individuals in opposing a merger between Charter Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHTR) and Time Warner...

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.

And it's hardly racially balanced: Black students are three times more likely to be suspended or expelled than white students, according to the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights, and research in Texas found students who have been suspended are more likely to be held back a grade and drop out of school entirely.

«Blacks suffered unspeakable horrors and injustices prior to the Civil Rights» movements simply because of the color of their skin»

For all of those out there saying this is there Civil rights and compare themselves to blacks, SHUT UP!

To put it simply, it was mostly a one issue (Black rights) civil rights movement.

The people who resisted the Civil Rights movement in the south, many of whom used religious arguments, people who classified Blacks as animals, were degraded and debased by their own actions: turning fire hoses on children, setting dogs on peaceful marchers, lynching, firebombing churches...

Black people want civil right, but they do nt want gays to be involved with «MLK» day???? WTH is that about!

Those hateful times produced the enfranchisement of blacks (it took too long but the churches led the anti-slavery and the Civil Rights crusades).

I would be lying if there weren't issues in the past regarding the priesthood, however the church has always been an advocate for civil rights and has never thought that blacks were cursed.

I for one have always thought that Obama has little connection to the Black American history, since his father is from Kenya and so Obama has no historical connection with the Civil Rights struggles and what Black Americans went through from one family, one generation, to the next.