Sentences with phrase «civil rights activists»

Parks, who galvanized civil rights activists by refusing to surrender a bus seat, once said, «I did not get on the bus to get arrested.

The raised fist became a go - to symbol for solidarity and strength for labor unions, American leftists, civil rights activists, white supremacists, and the Black Panther Party.

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The Congressional hearings into the FBI Counter Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO) from 1951 - 1976 discovered all sorts of abuses, including the targeting of African - American civil rights activists.

Much like the civil rights activists who occupied lunch counters, and the suffragettes chaining themselves to Buckingham Palace, I for one believe that non-violent civil disobedience will be a crucial tool in injecting some sanity into the profoundly broken economic and political paradigm we currently operate in.

We don't use this curriculum because it got Barack Obama elected president, but because some of the most successful movements in our history — of farmworkers, of civil rights activists — have been rooted in this idea of people learning their story of self.

It's worth noting that Somerville is a white Southerner, the son of civil rights activists, and his works do come across as earnest and heartfelt.

My project focuses on Lorraine O'Grady, Glenn Ligon, Alfredo Jaar, and Kerry James Marshall whose artwork challenged the ways that late twentieth - century dominant culture's portrayal of the movement obscured mid-twentieth-century civil rights activists» efforts to overturn foundational American structures, which maintain racist oppression.

Many were important civil rights activists, members of the immigrant community, and writers, who were not necessarily well - known at the time but would go on to be.

EXHIBITION For more than a century, the New York City Police Department (NYPD) has surveilled individuals and groups viewed as a threat to the status quo, including civil rights activists, the Nation of Islam, and Black Panthers.

Inspired by The Ladder, a magazine first published in 1956 by lesbian civil rights activists Daughters of Bilitis (named after a collection of poems by the Sappho - worshipping erotic writer, Pierre Louÿs), it's a 3D reworking of the publication's logo (a runged ladder ascending to the clouds).

MILLER, Francis Civil rights activists Julian Bond and Andrew J. Young holding hands during a civil rights rally in front of the Washington Monument, Washington, DC, 1963 5 5/8 x 11 1/8 inches Gelatin silver print; printed c. 1963

Travis Somerville was born in 1963 in Atlanta, Georgia to white civil rights activists — an Episcopal priest and a school teacher, and grew up in various cities and rural towns throughout the Southern United States.

Many of them are significant figures, but not widely known, such as scholar and social critic Harold Cruise (whose portrait graces the cover of the catalog); artist Faith Ringgold; Ron Kajiwara, a graphic designer at Vogue magazine; and civil rights activists James Farmer and Hugh Hurd, who was also an actor.

, Lincoln Clay will join up with a new character known as Roxy Laveau in order to take out a corrupt Sheriff that hassles civil rights activists.

Parallel biographies of two civil rights activists, a black southerner and a white northerner, lend unusual impact to this account of the 1961 bus integration protests.

His art reflected the people around him, from jazz musicians to civil rights activists.

Born in Toronto in 1957, Hill is the son of a black man and a white woman, American - born civil rights activists Daniel and Donna Hill.

Last year, Biddle authored a piece in The American Spectator entitled The New Civil Rights Leaders in which he observed that «old - school civil rights activists are fading into the history books — making way for a new generation.»

But they were also the result of careful bond building between Democratic and Republican lawmakers as well as disparate lobbying groups — from big business to civil rights activists.

On the other side, civil rights activists can use Duncan's statement (along with the federal ban on curriculum creation) in pushing for an injunction.

Yet education traditionalists, ivory tower civil rights activists, and dyed - in - the - wool progressives, still stuck on integration as school reform, would rather criticize charters for supposedly perpetuating segregation (even though most urban communities largely consist of one race or class) than embrace a tool for helping poor and minority families give their children opportunities for high - quality education.

The ire among reformers, families, and civil rights activists over the Sunshine State plan spread to EdTrust because activists figured out that it was responsible for crafting something called Cut the Gap in Half, the alternative to AYP that Florida partly borrowed for its plan.

In this unit students come to understand the nonviolent social change model practiced throughout the 1950s and 1960s by American civil rights activists.

And considering that Virginia has done little to address its educational woes — including addressing the mere one - percent decline in the percentage of young black men in fourth - grade mired in functional illiteracy (as measured on the National Assessment of Educational Progress) between 2003 and 2011 — Gov. Bob McDonnell, state Supt. Patricia Wright, and their colleagues were rightfully shamed by reformers and civil rights activists into revamping those targets (and the Obama administration, which also moved to push Virginia into revising them, deserves criticism for accepting those low targets in the first place).

For civil rights activists of the time, there was hope that southern states would obey the ruling and stop enforcing these set of Jim Crow laws.

Just as importantly, eight decades of court rulings — driven by the courtroom work of civil rights activists and school funding equity advocates — also provides reformers with the legal arguments necessary to challenge tenure laws and other policies that impede the constitutional obligation of states to provide children with high - quality education.

For civil rights activists of that time, and for school reformers of today, there are several clear lessons from the Morgan experience, several of which I have illustrated over the past few years.

As civil rights activists learned after the Morgan ruling, reformers must realize that the federal government must play a strong role on behalf of poor and minority children.

Black and Hispanic religious leaders and civil rights activists, including Martin Luther King III, implored the Florida Education Association to drop its lawsuit challenging the voucher - like program that serves about 75,000 students.

More outcry is likely to come in the coming months as reformers and civil rights activists in D.C., Tennessee and other states learn how the waiver gambit has essentially allowed states to damn children through the soft bigotry of low expectations.

I feel like this call of action is waging a war between educational advocates and civil rights activists.

Last month, the administration scrambled to get Virginia to scrap its low expectations for poor and minority children amid outcry from reformers and civil rights activists over the Old Dominion's move to approve AMO targets that only require districts to ensure that 57 percent of black students (and 65 percent of Latino peers) are proficient in math by 2016 - 2017; those targets were blessed by the administration back in June as part of its approval of the state's waiver proposal.

It isn't as if Duncan can't make this happen; in September, Virginia ended up revising its proficiency targets after the Obama administration was sufficiently embarrassed by civil rights activists and reformers over its earlier approval.

According to civil rights activists, Kansas» ESSA plan «would fail to promote achievement for thousands of students the law was meant to protect.»

Parents, educators, community advocates, civil rights activists and others are welcome to join!

Education Week's Daarel Burnette II reports that a «tricky financial - transparency requirement» in ESSA has «cranked up tensions among state politicians, school district administrators, and civil rights activists over public understanding of how districts divvy up their money among schools.»

Hall and other civil rights activists within the reform movement have made this point for the past two years.

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And, though an ongoing process, Mississippi continues to distance itself from a benighted past — 50 years ago, the state tormented civil rights activists; today, the state celebrates their legacy with the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, opened months ago in Jackson.

In addition, according to a press release from the coalition formed to fight off the Achievement First attack, «Scores of neighborhood residents, civil rights activists, education advocates, teachers, classroom support personnel, and legislators» joined together last week to «speak out against proposed displacement of Clark School students.»

So it will take Parent Power groups and civil rights activists to apply the pressure needed to force reform.

Fellow Civil Rights activists Martin Luther King Jr. and Stokely Carmichael continued the walk while he was hospitalized.

Civil rights activists broke down classifications by color and nationality.

This motley crew includes civil rights activists, free market economists, career public - school educators, and voucher proponents.

Under Ava DuVernay's direction, Selma captures the uncertainty and the lethal dangers that confronted civil rights activists.

But as Lady Bird spells out for those who have not noticed, he has been tasked with the near - impossible: First he must coax his fellow Dixiecrats into accepting the end of segregation while keeping King and the increasingly incensed civil rights activists from walking away.

Selma tells the story of Martin Luther King's visit to Selma, Alabama where civil rights activists organize a march after the shooting death of a young, Black man.

From rebelling against the Nazi regime to collaborating with civil rights activists, they argue: «There is a proud tradition of the revolutionary scientist.»

The 46th annual parade will include dozens of congregations, civil rights activists and marching bands from 12 states.