Sentences with phrase «civil rights document»

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The false narrative around the Pulse shooting, white supremacist messaging through diapers and what internal DOJ documents say about civil rights.

The advantages of slavery by debt over «chattel» slavery — ownership of humans as a property right — were set out in an infamous document called the Hazard Circular, reportedly circulated by British banking interests among their American banking counterparts during the American Civil War.

The Vatican II document Dignitatis humanae states: «This right of the human person to religious freedom is to be recognised in the constitutional law whereby society is governed and thus it is to become a civil right.

«Far from competing with analogous documents of civil authority, the charter intends to make a specific contribution to the promotion and safeguarding of the dignity and rights of the person and of peoples.»

Although we use «linguistic sweeteners and semantic somersaults» and call these schools «diverse,» the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University (now at UCLA) has documented that more than 2 million students, including more than a quarter of black students in the Northeast and Midwest, attend schools in which 99 to 100 percent of the students are nonwhite.

The 20 - page document, dated 12th March - three weeks before the civil rights leader was assassinated in Memphis - is included in the latest trove of government files about the former President's murder, which the National Archives released on Friday.

In 2015, the Congressional - Executive Commission on China (CECC) documented a that the Chinese government continues to «silence dissent, suppress human rights advocacy, and control civil society,» resulting in oppression that's «broader in scope than any other period documented since the Commission started issuing Annual Reports in 2002.»

There is no need to recount here the well - documented story of how the civil rights movement inspired political activism by other groups with grievances about their status in America and their treatment throughout American history.

The public would be given the right to sack corrupt MPs - a policy all three main parties have now adopted - and a freedom bill would re-establish many British civil liberties, the document said.

Still, some of those documents used to apply for the I.D.s — which can include current or expired foreign passports that could indicated someone is undocumented in the U.S. — will be kept on record, which is what has sparked some of the concern among civil rights groups.

From March 2010 to September 2014, New York homeowners submitted over 2,700 foreclosure rescue scam complaints to the Lawyer Committee for Civil Rights, documenting at least $ 8.25 million in losses.

Eric Schneiderman's Civil Rights Bureau sent a subpoena to the company Monday seeking a laundry list of documents.

«The constitution is the document that sets forth our fundamental rights, and to put that entire document on the chopping block, as it were, is really playing with fire,» said Donna Lieberman of the New York Civil Liberties Union.

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.

Government documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union and provided to CNET show a split over electronic privacy rights within the Obama administration, with Justice Department prosecutors and investigators privately insisting they're not legally required to obtain search warrants for e-mail.

Tom Wilkinson (Belle)-- always good — as Johnson brings out our 36th President's humanity without ignoring his well - documented racism (which makes his role as civil - rights hero even more remarkable), and Tim Roth («Lie to Me «-RRB- seems to have a lot of fun as the smirking George Wallace (the movie needs at least one villain to hate).

«When Another Country was published — at the very peak of Baldwin's public stature as a civil rights activist — it was taken as a document of a very small slice of the present: the Greenwich Village and Paris of the late 1950s and early 1960s, where interracial couples and gay people were able to live openly, mostly but not entirely out of the omnipresent shadow of violence.

«We are thrilled that the Ed School has selected us for the work that we have done over many decades — work that has included the creation of curriculum for classroom use, national surveys to document the extent of the problem, development of teaching training materials, and, when necessary, serving as expert witnesses in federal lawsuits when school districts have been reluctant to grant civil rights to their students,» Stein says.

Most recently, the 2013 - 14 Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) documented that black students, who make up 16 percent of enrollment, accounted for 40 percent of suspensions nationally.

The resources include such materials as Kings speeches, primary documents, worksheets, chronologies, and the King Encyclopedia, which has many entries related to the civil rights movement.

Franklin says if students are reading «To Kill A Mockingbird» in their English class, he can use historical documents to teach common themes of the civil rights struggle.

Two years earlier, a report from the Civil Rights Project at UCLA documented large racial disparities in California school districts» disciplinary practices.

Other problematic requirements, from the perspective of the officials interviewed, related to civil rights data collection, (Education Week reported extensively on that data) the Federal Funding and Transparency Act, and federal time distribution reports (the report noted that «in order for state and local federal grant recipients to use federal funds to pay salaries for their employees, they must document the employees» time spent on federally funded activities.)

These documents explain how the Department interprets and enforces federal civil rights laws protecting the rights of students with disabilities, including Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Section 504) and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).

From 2009 through 2016, it handled 76,000 civil rights complaints and issued 34 policy documents to school districts and colleges.

The rubrics are aligned to the research based practices documented by Drs. Patricia Gandara and María Estela Zárate in their recent publication titled «Seizing the Opportunity to Narrow the Achievement Gap for English Learners: Research - based Recommendations for the Use of LCFF Funds» from the Civil Rights Project at UCLA.

This document was developed by the National Forum on Assessment to help guide assessment reform and has been signed by over 80 education and civil rights groups (see Appendix F).

A new report published in February 2015 by the Civil Rights Project UCLA documents «gross disparities in the use of out - of - school suspension experienced by students with disabilities» and other subgroups.

These guidance documents specifically concerned school discipline practices and explained how the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) in the United States Department of Education (US ED) would be analyzing data and conducting investigations into potentially discriminatory discipline practices by schools and districts.

We encouraged the Department to retain the existing FAQ and guidance documents on this issue and continue its role in civil rights investigation and enforcement.

The training not only gave teachers the opportunity to learn more about the Civil Rights Movement, but also taught them how to pull documents from the archives to enhance and enrich their classroom materials.

Much of the violence against blacks has been documented and the treatment of whites sympathetic to the civil rights movement has been similarly described.

With archival pictures, primary - source documents, and accessible text, Brimner brings Reverend L. Shuttlesworth, civil rights pioneer, and Eugene «Bull» Connor, symbol of racial hatred and violence, into acute focus.

For additional information about the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission with related documents, visit the National Archives» Digital Classroom Teaching With Documents Lesdocuments, visit the National Archives» Digital Classroom Teaching With Documents LesDocuments Lesson Plan.

Skeeter's documenting the help is so passive (though Stockett tries and fails to show it as dangerous), so far removed from real civil rights actions that she comes across as a shallow neophyte who will die her last breath absolutely out of the loop.

The United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division Disability Rights Section provides a helpful document that gives answers to frequently asked questions about service animals and the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Photographs by Gordon Parks, James VanDerZee and Malick Sidibe made the cut, along with images documenting Emmett Till's ravaged body, sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos raising their fists during the 1968 Olympic medal ceremony in Mexico City, and a police dog attacking a civil rights protester in Birmingham, Ala., among others.

From 1954 to 1971, it documents the intersection of artistic enterprise and activism, American history and the international fight for civil and human rights.

Cassandra Griffen believes her interest in documenting events of civil unrest was born out of her experiences while serving as Commissioner of Human Rights in New York State.

This documentary film project, produced in collaboration with WHYY and Equality Forum, will illuminate the 50 - year history and progress of the LGBTQ civil rights movement by highlighting the powerful experiences of Gay Rights movement pioneers and documenting a planned reenactment of the 1965 — 69 peaceful demonstrations at Independencerights movement by highlighting the powerful experiences of Gay Rights movement pioneers and documenting a planned reenactment of the 1965 — 69 peaceful demonstrations at IndependenceRights movement pioneers and documenting a planned reenactment of the 1965 — 69 peaceful demonstrations at Independence Hall.

Published in 1964, at the height of the civil rights movement, the book documented civil rights icons, intellectuals, everyday Americans, and pop icons.

A humanitarian with a deep commitment to social justice, he left behind a body of work that documents many of the most important aspects of American culture from the early 1940s up until his death in 2006, with a focus on race relations, poverty, civil rights, and urban life.

Another powerful exhibition using the medium of photography to document, and also to instigate social change, is «A Fire That No Water Could Put Out»: Civil Rights Photography curated by Erin Nelson, a curatorial assistant at the High Museum (November 4, 2017 — May 27, 2018).

Essays from outside the art world — by Anita Hill, Peter James Hudson, W.E.B. Du Bois and Zadie Smith — narrate a series of interwoven stories about Reconstruction, civil rights and the vulnerable body in urban space, fleshed out with vivid archival photographs and documents.

He is best known for his photographs documenting the Civil Rights Era, but he alo freelanced for various publications and shot a wide range of subjects.

Hofstra University Museum unveils a historic photography show of images made while documenting the sixties civil rights movement taken by Danny Lyons.

These catalogs document those shows: «Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power,» «Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties,» «The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now,» and «We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965 — 85.»

With more than 300 works, the High Museum of Art holds one of the world's most significant collections of photographs documenting the civil rights movement.

The more than 40 prints to be featured are drawn in large part from the Museum's collection of photography documenting the civil rights movement, which is among the most significant in the world.

The Musée du Quai Branly in Paris, where «The Color Line,» a major exhibition of art by African American artists and historical documents and publications is on view, has removed a children's hand out booklet after criticism about its reference to the «pleasant lives» of some slaves and claim that racial discrimination in the United States ended with the 1964 Civil Rights Act.