Sentences with phrase «civil rights figures»

It includes essays by poets, artists, philosophers and sociologists: from civil rights figures such as the scholar and African - American activist W.E.B. Du Bois and the Trinidadian - American Stokely Carmichael; to writers including Gertrude Stein and Joan Retallack; from artists of different generations such as sound poet Hugo Ball (who wrote one of the founding Dada manifestos), Ad Reinhardt, Joan Jonas, William Pope.L and Felix Gonzalez - Torres; to new essays by curators Adrienne Edwards, Laura Hoptman, Susan Thompson, Jenny Schlenzka and the critic Tom McDonough.

A chorus of community groups, minority advocates, union leaders and civil rights figures chimed in to add their disappointment with Quinn's decision.

The lattes are named after activists, writers, and other important civil rights figures.

All of the clergy in the courtroom project have agreed to support the jury's verdict in the racially - charged case, which sparked large rallies and marches led by civil rights figures like the Rev. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.

Even Rep. John Lewis (Ga.), the revered civil rights figure, joined the fray.

Any white man can browse and choose black women from a... Civil rights figure Recy Taylor dies at age 97 1 day ago ago Dec. 29 (UPI)-- Recy Taylor, a black Alabama woman whose rape by six white men in

BlacKkKlansman's ensemble cast also includes legendary civil rights figure and actor Harry Belafonte, The Blacklist's Ryan Eggold, The Walking Dead and 24 star Corey Hawkins, Spider - Man: Homecoming's Laura Harrier and Topher Grace as real - life Klan leader David Duke.

The award is presented to an individual whose principles of personal commitment, integrity, and achievement reflect those of the late Mr. Mays, who was a scholar, orator, writer, and civil rights figure.

The newest line is Línea H, which has the only subway station in the world named after a LGBT civil rights figure, Carlos Jáuregui, at the corner of Sante Fe and Pueyrredon Avenues.

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Funny thing is that many things Christians do (deny civil rights to women, ga • ys and minorities, preach intolerance towards other religions, etc) would seem like something Satan would be in favor of... go figure, a bit ironic.

Our beautiful biracial children have always been exposed to both sides of their culture and they have learned about slavery, civil rights and important black figures in history.

Next up: a certain Barack Hussein Obama (of the 1600 Pennsylvania Obamas) is the keynote speaker at tonight's National Women's Law Center Annual Awards dinner, where we'll be paying tribute to 15 women Freedom Riders, key figures in the 1960s civil rights movement.

Reverend Jesse Jackson, Sr., founder, and president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition is one of America's foremost civil rights, religious and political figures.

Before she launched her campaign, Ms. Nixon gave a quick heads - up call to the Rev. Al Sharpton, the influential civil - rights leader and media figure.

«I came up during the early «60s and the civil rights and black power movement,» said Clark, a venerable figure known for his dapper wardrobe, which this day includes a white Ascot cap and a polka - dot hankie in the breast - pocket of his velvet jacket.

He became a leading figure in the Rochester civil rights movement, for which he received numerous awards.

We see images of the civil rights struggle in the 1960s and of figures such as John F. Kennedy and Fidel Castro, among others, and the furious and evocative unity of picture and song reminds the audience that communism sprang from concerns that intensely dog modern society.

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He nabbed two more Oscar nominations playing persecuted historical figures: civil - rights leader Malcolm X in Spike Lee's epic (1992) and wrongfully imprisoned prizefighter Rubin «Hurricane» Carter in Norman Jewison's The Hurricane (1999).

The film's running time is a swift two hours; I wouldn't have minded an extra 30 minutes to learn more about the rest of the civil rights pioneers (all real historical figures) who march arm - in - arm on the front lines with King, including Wendell Pierce's Reverend Hosea Williams and Tessa Thompson's Diane Nash.

«That day solidly defined another goal of mine: to figure out what it would mean for our country, our schools, and our students if literacy is recognized as a civil right,» says Yassine, who will be applying to Ph.D. programs for fall 2018 to study literacy, identity, and civil rights.

This breakout escape room is a fun way for students to test their knowledge with the major historical figures and events during the Civil Rights Movement.

Meredith continued to be a central figure in the Civil Rights movement.

It is thus significant that the number of cases reaching state and federal appellate courts has surged back up to levels attained during the early 1970s when civil rights cases had a central place on the national political agenda (see Figure 1).

Just as the education - reform movement is starting to figure out how to use test - score data in a more sophisticated way, the Obama administration and its allies in the civil - rights community want to take us back to the Stone Age on the use of school - discipline data.

On May 29, James Meredith, one of the key figures in the Civil Rights Movement, visited the Ed School to accept the Harvard Graduate School of Education Medal for Education Impact, the highest honor given by the school, and speak at the 2013 Convocation ceremony.

Freedom's Sisters is a multimedia exhibition that celebrates 20 African American women, including historic 19th - century figures and contemporary leaders, who helped shape the spirit and substance of the Civil rights Movement in America.

This bundle contains 27 ready - to - use Black History worksheets that are perfect for students studying Black History month, the Civil Rights Movement, or prominent black figures like Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, or Malcolm X.

«We have to figure out how to fix the horrible cultural narrative, which says that teaching black kids is at best rewarding and at worst impossible,» says Wilkins, who now works on civil rights issues at the College Board.

For example, Katherine Charron's focus on Septima Clark not only explores the contributions of a major participant in the struggle for civil rights, but enlightens us about the role of African American women in the civil rights movement which, aside from a few well - known figures, has too often been obscured in other histories.

President of the University of Notre Dame from 1952 to 1987, Rev. Hesburgh was one of the nation's most influential figures in education, civil rights, and other national and international affairs.

Clearly, the enrollment of Connecticut's charter schools mirrors the national figures as reported by the UCLA Civil Rights Project, which states: «Charter schools are more racially isolated than traditional public schools 1n virtually every state and every metropolitan area in the nation.»

Why do you think teachers focus so heavily on the household names of leaders from Civil Rights movements and slavery when there are many more luminaries that students should know about other than renowned figures such as Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman?

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.

Celebrate Black History Month with this coloring page dedicated to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., one of the most important figures in Civil Rights history!

While the suspension rates for black students (who make up the vast majority of the student body) at New York schools are generally less than or equal to those of their surrounding districts, Amistad Academy and AF Bridgeport have far greater rates of suspensions for black students than the surrounding districts (see Figure 4)(Office of Civil Rights, 2017).

Maya Angelou, born Marguerite Ann Johnson April 4, 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri, was an American poet, memoirist, actress and an important figure in the American Civil Rights Movement.

Congressman John Lewis, an American icon and one of the key figures of the civil rights movement, joins co-writer Andrew Aydin and artist Nate Powell to bring the lessons of history to vivid life for a new generation, urgently relevant for today's world.

A major literary figure tells «a searching tale of loss, recovery, and deja vu that is part memoir and what - if speculation, part polemic and exposé» (The Washington Post) about two generations of one family — civil rights martyr Emmett Till and his father, Louis.

And Lewis's «Alabama II» (1969) deploys a small, barely visible line of marching stick figures on a searing expanse of sunset pink, hinting at the struggle for civil rights while still insisting on being read as an abstract painting.

There she painted friends, neighbours, casual acquaintances and people she encountered on the street among the immigrant community, and just as often cultural figures connected to Harlem or to the civil rights movement.

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.

Jibade - Khalil Huffman (b. 1981) will present a new body of work at Anat Ebgi that focuses on the black male figure in art history, film and literature, while Jamal Cyrus (b. 1973) will explore the cultural politics of Black American music and the civil rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s at Inman Gallery.

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.

Some artists, galvanized by the spirit of the civil rights movement, created images of solidarity, strength, and resistance, or paid homage to legendary African American figures such as Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Angela Davis, musician John Coltrane, and sports hero Jack Johnson; while others focused primarily on color, form, and concept.

Parks was an activist, a humanitarian and a core figure in America's civil rights movement; he routinely shattering glass ceilings for black artists, while using his platform to expose the stark realities of day - to - day inequality on the most momentous of scales.

The seven - part sculptural series What It's Like, What It Is # 2 (1991), commissioned by the Hirshhorn Museum and not exhibited since 1992, breaks from Piper's Conceptual use of the frame and grid, confronting the viewer with photographic cut - out figures both iconic and anonymous sourced from movements in American History, from the civil rights era to the early 1990s.

There she painted friends, neighbours, casual acquaintances and people she encountered on the street, and just as often cultural figures connected to Harlem or to the civil rights movement.

Painters LOIS MAILOU JONES and JOHN BIGGERS and sculptor and printmaker ELIZABETH CATLETT all aligned themselves with the younger generation of black artists, creating works that underscored their shared interest in African design sensibilities, the black figure, and the continuing struggle for civil rights.

I've been researching and I figured out that he's a photographer, but how did he help the civil rights movement?