Sentences with phrase «civil rights career»

In 1963, Rustin brought his unique skills to the crowning glory of his civil rights career: his work organising the March on Washington, the biggest protest America had ever seen.

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Painter recommends that Congress pass a law right now that would require that when a President or his businesses have specific matters pending before a federal agency — like, say, an Internal Revenue Service audit, or a case before the National Labor Relations Board or the Securities and Exchange Commission, or a licensing issue before the Federal Communications Commission — that the matter must be decided by a career civil servant, rather than by a political appointee.

The New Yorker «s Jia Tolentino profiles civil rights attorney Gloria Allred, whose career, she writes, can be seen as a «decades - long project to expand the boundaries of legitimate victimhood.»

Tolu Olubunmi is an internationally recognized social entrepreneur who has spent her career building innovative organizations advancing human and civil rights.

William Sloane Coffin's Once to Every Man (Atheneum) recounts the rich career of an activist clergyman who served as chaplain at Yale University for 17 years, during which time he was involved in civil rights demonstrations in the south, student work camps in Africa, Peace Corps training in Puerto Rico, and antiwar protests in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere.

But King's career was interrupted by two things: the civil rights movement and Jesus.

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.

Ms. Clark has had a long and distinguished career in the civil rights movement in this country and as an educator in the SUNY system.

Yetta Kurland is an attorney who has won some impressive civil rights victories in her career, remains outspoken -LSB-...]

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In addition to her pioneering medical career, Picotte went on to become a public health advocate and a civil rights activist.

A professor of Spanish at the City University of New York, with a passion for 16th - century Catalonian poetry, Pedro Bach - y - Rita nearly destroyed his career in 1947 by organizing the country's first civil - rights strike at a university.

Synopsis: This profile of singer Nina Simone utilizes a wealth of archival footage, concert material and interviews with the performer in order to tell the story of her remarkable career and civil - rights activism.

Less a «civil rights drama» than a tender portrait of a marriage suffering unimaginable stress, Loving soars thanks to its narrative approach and career - best performances from Negga and Edgerton.

3 / 4Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Got ta Be Me is the first major film documentary to examine Davis» vast talent and his journey for identity through the shifting tides of civil rights and racial progress during 20th - century America.Sammy Davis, Jr. had the kind of career that was indisputably legendary, so vast and multi-faceted that it was dizzying in its scope and scale.

Davis started his career in vaudeville as a hoofer at age 3, was bullied in the armed forces, faced death threats for dating white women and worked with MLK during the civil rights movement.

It's impossible not to get caught up in this ripping courtroom drama that watchably restages an episode early in the career of the legendary civil rights lawyer Thurgood Marshall, a decade before he worked on landmark segregation cases in the deep south.

(Sympathy may be on her side because of her civil rights work and long acting career, but she wouldn't be the only legend — paging Lauren Bacall and Gloria Stuart!

August 3, 2014 • Mavis Staples, whose titanic career spans the civil rights movement, Soul Train and solo work with Curtis Mayfield, Prince and Jeff Tweedy, closed the 2014 Newport Folk Festival on Sunday, July 27.

At the same time, Ryan's marriage to a liberal Quaker and his own sense of conscience launched him into a tireless career of peace and civil rights activism that stood in direct contrast to his screen persona.

The Ethiopian - Irish actress gives a career - changing performance in «Loving» — the true story of a mixed - race relationship that led to a landmark US civil rights court case.

Just 10 days ago, on the 56th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, Arne Duncan claimed that the «civil rights issue of our time» affirms «our collective commitment to providing a high quality education to all children regardless of race or background so they can succeed in college and careers and prosper in life.»

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

As the longest serving director of the governmental organization, she played important roles in creating high caliber career development programs for civil rights professionals to better serve the state's increasingly diverse population, and balanced aggressive enforcement of civil rights laws with the need to advance civil rights social collaboration.

Hrabowski — a child of prominent Civil Rights activist of the 1960s — has long advocated for minority rights and education throughout his career as an activist, educator, administrator, author, and consuRights activist of the 1960s — has long advocated for minority rights and education throughout his career as an activist, educator, administrator, author, and consurights and education throughout his career as an activist, educator, administrator, author, and consultant.

The Teach Strong campaign, launched today, is supported by a diverse group of stakeholders — including teachers» unions, civil rights groups, teacher voice organizations, and education policy leaders — that share a common vision for a society in which teachers are more valued and supported at all stages of their careers.

His parents, Marian Wright Edelman and Peter Edelman, have stood up for civil rights, equal opportunity, and children's well - being their whole careers.

IHEP participates in activities with a broad coalition of more than 50 organizations representing students and college access, veterans, consumers, and civil rights to support meaningful regulations that protect students and taxpayers from career programs that over-charge and under - deliver.

In the passion of the civil rights movement of the1960s, Jonathan Kozol gave up the prospect of an academic career, moved from Harvard Square to a poor black Boston neighborhood, and became a fourth grade teacher.

At The Leadership Conference Education Fund and The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, we work to transform American public education so that all young people attend and are fully included in responsive, welcoming, rigorous, and fairly resourced schools that prepare all of them, beginning in early childhood and continuing throughout their K - 12 years, for college and career.

By Shawnta Barnes and David McGuire In their article, «Decades after civil rights gains, black teachers a rarity in public schools» USA Today noted, «Because most white communities in the 1950s and 1960s preferred white teachers over black ones, court - ordered desegregation often ended the teaching careers of black educators.»

Mitchell said Mosteller, a minister, «has a long, distinguished career and involvement in civil rights and civic activism.»

In their article, «Decades after civil rights gains, black teachers a rarity in public schools» USA Today noted, «Because most white communities in the 1950s and 1960s preferred white teachers over black ones, court - ordered desegregation often ended the teaching careers of black educators.»

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Ms. Rivera began her distinguished public service career as an Attorney General Honors Law Graduate in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.

Dawn began her federal career at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

This event for 150 high school girls featured women in non-traditional careers including: engineering, waste disposal, highway maintenance, surveying, and heavy equipment, civil rights, electrical, and concrete.

Born in Atlanta, Egerton moved to Nashville in the 1960s and spent much of his career chronicling the city and the Civil Rights movement.

Arriving in the United States at the age of eleven, she grew up to be a passionate advocate of civil and women's rights and followed a zigzag path to a career that ultimately placed her in the upper stratosphere of diplomacy and policy - making in her adopted country.

Had record of advocacy for non-violent food nearly as long as careers in comedy and civil rights Dick Gregory, 84, remembered by most media as «a groundbreaking comedian and civil rights activist,» but also actively advocating a vegan lifestyle for nearly two - thirds of his life, died in Washington D.C. on August 19, 2017 from a -LSB-...]

Joining Peter Greenberg is legendary CBS Correspondent Bill Plante, who talks about his remarkable 52 - year career at the network, and his travels along the way — from covering civil rights in Selma, Alabama, the war in Vietnam, his years as the White House correspondent for the network, and many other points in between.

«Unlike most of the other contenders on this list, David Hammons — much of whose work reflects his devotion to Civil Rights and the Black Power movement — has kept the art world at arm's length for most of his career, in part by refusing to join a commercial gallery.»

The works on display will encapsulate the various phases of Matta's prolific career, including his Surrealist «Inscapes» series created from the 1930s to the 1940s, as well as later pieces that reflect on the state of world politics at the time, grappling with topics such as the Vietnam War, the American Civil Rights Movement and the Spanish Civil War.

The show argues that Lewis used abstraction throughout his career, after initially working along social realist lines, commingling it with the figure to comment on political issues involving race and civil rights, and introducing history and narrative into a style that eschewed such content in favor of medium specificity.

Jones also reveals how he began collecting art while he was pursuing a career in public service, including working in civil rights, housing and urban development, and the Peace Corps.

«Civil Rights Marchers» (1988) and «Once Something Has Lived It Can Never Really Die» (1996) span the artist's brief but explosive career and complement the High's existing holdings of Lockett's cut - metal drawings and deer paintings, work in which animals become potent symbols for the vulnerability of African - American men in the post — Civil Rights era South.

During his 60 - year career as an activist, organiser and «troublemaker,» Bayard Rustin formulated many of the strategies that propelled the American civil rights movement.

In the second decade of his career, Dapper Bruce Lafitte, as he is now known, is taking on «the history»: Civil War battle scenes, the civil rights movement, and, in this body of work, Hurricane KatCivil War battle scenes, the civil rights movement, and, in this body of work, Hurricane Katcivil rights movement, and, in this body of work, Hurricane Katrina.

-- Nikolay Oleynikov, Tsaplya Olga Egorova, Dmitry Vilensky, and others Claire Fontaine (fictional conceptual artist)-- A Paris - based collective including Fulvia Carnevale and James Thornhill CPLY — William N. Copley Diane Pruis (pseudonymous Los Angeles gallerist)-- Untitled gallery's Joel Mesler Donelle Woolford (black female artist)-- Actors hired to impersonate said fictional artist by white artist Joe Scanlan Dr. Lakra (Mexican artist inspired by tattoo culture)-- Jeronimo Lopez Ramirez Dr. Videovich (a «specialist in curing television addiction»)-- The Argentine - American conceptual artist Jaime Davidovich Dzine — Carlos Rolon George Hartigan — The male pseudonym that the Abstract Expressionist painter Grace Hartigan adopted early in her career Frog King Kwok (Hong Kong performance artist who uses Chinese food as a frequent medium)-- Conceptualist Kwok Mang Ho The Guerrilla Girls — A still - anonymous group of feminist artists who made critical agit - prop work exposing the gender biases in the art world Hennessy Youngman (hip - hop - styled YouTube advice dispenser), Franklin Vivray (increasingly unhinged Bob Ross - like TV painting instructor)-- Jayson Musson Henry Codax (mysterious monochrome artist)-- Jacob Kassay and Olivier Mosset JR — Not the shot villain of «Dallas» but the still - incognito street artist of global post-TED fame John Dogg (artist), Fulton Ryder (Upper East Side gallerist)-- Richard Prince KAWS — Brian Donnelly The King of Kowloon (calligraphic Hong Kong graffiti artist)-- Tsang Tsou - choi Klaus von Nichtssagend (fictitious Lower East Side dealer)-- Ingrid Bromberg Kennedy, Rob Hult, and Sam Wilson Leo Gabin — Ghent - based collective composed of Gaëtan Begerem, Robin De Vooght, and Lieven Deconinck Lucie Fontaine (art and curatorial collective)-- The writer / curator Nicola Trezzi and artist Alice Tomaselli MadeIn Corporation — Xu Zhen Man Ray — Emmanuel Radnitzky Marvin Gaye Chetwynd (Turner Prize - nominated artist formerly known as Spartacus Chetwynd)-- Alalia Chetwynd Maurizio Cattelan — Massimiliano Gioni, at least in many interviews the New Museum curator did in the famed Italian artist's stead in the»90s Mr. Brainwash (Banksy - idolizing street artist)-- Thierry Guetta MURK FLUID, Mike Lood — The artist Mark Flood R. Mutt, Rrose Sélavy — Marcel Duchamp Rammellzee — Legendary New York street artist and multimedia visionary, whose real name «is not to be told... that is forbidden,» according to his widow Reena Spaulings (Lower East Side gallery)-- Artist Emily Sundblad and writer John Kelsey Regina Rex (fictional Brooklyn gallerist)-- The artists Eli Ping (who now has opened Eli Ping Gallery on the Lower East Side), Theresa Ganz, Yevgenia Baras, Aylssa Gorelick, Angelina Gualdoni, Max Warsh, and Lauren Portada Retna — Marquis Lewis Rod Bianco (fictional Oslo galleris)-- Bjarne Melgaard RodForce (performance artist who explored the eroticized associations of black culture)-- Sherman Flemming Rudy Bust — Canadian artist Jon Pylypchuk Sacer, Sace (different spellings of a 1990s New York graffiti tag)-- Dash Snow SAMO (1980s New York Graffiti Tag)-- Jean - Michel Basquiat Shoji Yamaguchi (Japanese ceramicist who fled Hiroshima and settled in the American South with a black civil - rights activist, then died in a car crash in 1991)-- Theaster Gates Vern Blosum — A fictional Pop painter of odd image - and - word combinations who was invented by a still - unnamed Abstract Expressionist artist in an attempt to satirize the Pop movement (and whose work is now sought - after in its own right) Weegee — Arthur Fellig What, How and for Whom (curators of 2009 Istanbul Biennial)-- Ana Dević, Nataša Ilić, Sabina Sabolović, Dejan Kršić, and Ivet Curlin The Yes Men — A group of «culture - jamming» media interventionists led by Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos

In her rich and varied career, she was a designer, teacher, feminist, and activist for civil rights and anti-war causes.