Sentences with phrase «civil rights workers»

While discussions of Nauman's video works from this period have focused on issues of performativity, endurance, and the body, Ligon was interested in how Nauman's discordant note can be heard as a soundtrack to the war in Vietnam or the brutal violence faced by civil rights workers.

In 1990, an exhibition curated by artist Faith Ringgold was a tribute to civil rights workers killed in 1964, «Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner, The Mississippi Three: The Struggle Continues.»

Inside, Dallas - based artist Gabriel Dawe had strung two spectral — and spectrum - crossing — thread sculptures between the columns of a space that had once been a department store lunch counter where 1960s civil rights workers staged sit - ins.

This exhibit featured works by six African - American women artists making public their personal reflections about the deaths of these civil rights workers, and about the continuing struggle for civil rights in America.

«Avedon's America» is rounded out with slices of a variety of American lives including prisoners, gun enthusiasts, a beekeeper, surviving family members of slain civil rights workers, making for an engaging show that's both easy to look at and provides food for thought in the snapshot presented of American's journey in the last few decades.

Combining her own interviews with extensive research, Rubin offers a deeply layered view of the watershed summer of 1964, when civil rights workers flooded into Mississippi to open schools, register voters, and promote civil rights.

Many Americans, like the suffragists and subsequent civil rights workers, fought long and hard to win the right to vote.

It's 1964, and Sunny feels as though her life has been invaded when civil rights workers come to her town of Greenwood, Mississippi, to register blacks to vote.

Full of original research and interviews with many personally involved, this book goes into detail about the murder of three civil rights workers in Mississippi during the summer of 1964 and how the perpetrators were brought to at least partial justice.

As the 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer approaches, The Hechinger Report will look back at the violence surrounding the 1964 campaign to register blacks to vote in Mississippi and the murders of three civil rights workers.

In the same way that the FBI are the heros of a story about the violence committed against civil rights workers.

Parker saved the maniac cop role for Gene Hacker, who spent much of the film using some not - quite - legal techniques when it came to interrogating KKK members over the deaths of three civil rights workers in the»60s.

From the good cop / racist cop dynamic of Willem Dafoe and Gene Hackman, respectively, — here to investigate the disappearance of three civil rights workers — to the rather blunt dialogue.

As we were on the bridge over Old Man River, the announcement came that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had found the bodies of the three missing civil rights workers.

Maybe someday, when people can again sing, «We shall overcome» with integrity, there will be celebrations and speeches commemorating slain civil rights workers Andy Goodman, Michael Schwerner and James Chaney — and all other who gave so much, yet received so much more from the quiet courage and faith of the people whom they had come to help.

In the summer of 1964, three young civil rights workers were brutally murdered in Mississippi.

He invited a group of us civil rights workers to his home one evening, where perhaps a dozen other white sympathizers were gathered.

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...

Earlier that summer three civil rights workers had been murdered: a local black, James Chaney, and two young Jewish men from New York, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, had been shot, crushed by a bulldozer and then buried under a dam in Philadelphia, Mississippi.

In 1964 Benedict was instrumental in providing a used car for Michael Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman, the three young civil rights workers beaten and murdered in Philadelphia, Miss. — the most notorious crime committed during the Sixties» voting rights drive across the deep south.

They remembered the courage and determination of the young civil rights workers («The real heroes were the black «Snick» [SNCC, or Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee] personnel, who faced the worst dangers and took more than their share of the violence.

These ministers left their jobs briefly or used their summer vacations to offer direct support to the civil rights workers.

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.

Believe me the GOP of today would not have organized Civil Rights workers to go south to register peopleto vote.

My candidate for a «prophet to the liberals» is Will Campbell, publisher of the journal Katallagete and author of the highly acclaimed Brother to a Dragonfly, an autobiographical book about the lives of Will and his brother, Joe, as they leave their father's small cotton farm in Mississippi — Will to become a civil rights worker for the National Council of Churches, Joe to become a small - town pharmacist.

Not exact matches

The civil rights advocate plans to address the typically white - and male - dominated technology industry to push for programs that expand inclusion of diverse workers.

Economic justice, workers» rights, civil rights, human rights, the environment.

Some of the demonstrations, which are also celebrated under the International Workers» Day banner, reflected cultural traditions, and many others were a rallying cry for equal rights, equal pay, and a renewed focus on social, environmental and civil - rights issues.

«Visa programs for foreign workers... should be administered in a manner that protects the civil rights of American workers and current lawful residents, and that prioritizes the protection of American workers — our forgotten working people — and the jobs they hold.»

On Saturday, workers voted in favor of including civil disobedience in their efforts to reach a $ 15 - per - hour minimum wage and the right to form a union without fear of retribution from employers.

Alabama Fast - Food Workers Expand Civil Rights Wage Suit Wall Street Journal Melanie Trottman June 30, 2016

Fast - Food Workers File Federal Civil Rights Suit Against City of Memphis Over Illegal Surveillance, Intimidation, Harassment Common Dreams March 1, 2017

Fast - food workers pressing for $ 15 minimum wage, tie fight to civil rights Detroit Free Press Frank Witsil and Aleanna Siacon Feb. 11, 2018

The NBFL works to advance workers» rights and promotes a progressive civil society where no one gets left behind.

• Note this, from the announcement of a press call on the unions» desired card - check legislation, when the bill was before Congress: «Prominent interfaith leaders, including Rev. Jim Wallis of Sojourners, Kim Bobo of Interfaith Worker Justice, Bishop Greg Rickel, and Rabbi Mordechai Liebling, will hold a press conference call to talk about restoring workers» freedom to organize as a moral imperative and civil and human right.»

Typical of this approach are the activities of Nader's organization, Common Cause, legal aid for the poor, Chavez» organization of farm workers, the enforcing of civil rights, legislation for minority groups, and revival and application of the doctrine of just war to international conflict.

The Marxists of the 1930s onward also called themselves Progressives, and they can be praised (let's face it) for being on the forefront on the Civil Rights movement — for liberating African Americans to be equal parts of the united workers of the world.

Abortion clinics are firebombed; Planned Parenthood workers are murdered; an art gallery owner is arrested for exhibiting Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs; a rap group is arrested on obscenity charges; the civil rights — or «special privileges» — of gays and lesbians are the subject of controversial referenda; and issues of multiculturahsm, freedom of expression and «political...

(CNN)- The fervent instinct for social action that energized Jewish - Americans when they fought for workers» rights and civil rights, rallied for the creation of a Jewish state, and battled all sorts of bigotry throughout the 20th century still percolates.

The United States welcomed its immigrants, protected its workers, freed the slaves, enfranchised women, aided the needy, provided social security for the aged, ensured the civil rights of all its citizens, and made public space accessible to the handicapped: all in service to its ideals of justice.

Every movement to make America more fully realize its professed values has grown out of some form of public theology, from the abolitionists to the social gospel and the early socialist party to the civil rights movement under Martin Luther King and the farm workers» movement under Caesar Chavez.

«In the past four years in the Cuomo administration, Kathy Hochul has been an important part of a team that has delivered progressive gains for New York's working families — an increase in the minimum wage for all New Yorkers, and a historic increase in wages for airport workers — and has been a staunch supporter of civil rights issues that matter to our members and everyone in the state,» said 32BJ SEIU President Héctor Figueroa.

In a case that could have wide - ranging national significance for gay rights, a federal appeals court in New York ruled that a landmark civil rights law bars employers from discriminating against their workers based on sexual orientation.

«As a movement we will continue to push back against attempts to undermine and diminish workers» rights, to extend trade unions» reach into workplaces and to continue to ensure that unions remain a strong, progressive force in civil society.»

Women's rights, workers» rights, civil rights, environmental rights — movements for all of these took root in New York, Gov. Cuomo told the crowd, which

Government proposals to tighten rules on strike ballots and political donations have been condemned by furious trade unions as «chilling» and «an attack on workers» rights and civil liberties».

Protestors invoked the spirit of the slain civil rights leaders and said they are committed to doing whatever it takes to win a $ 15 wage and union rights for every airport worker.

TUC General Secretary Frances O'Grady said: «This Bill is an unnecessary attack on workers» rights and civil liberties that will shift the balance of power in the workplace.

The chairman said what the workers were demanding for was their rights as civil servants in accordance with labour laws.

New York City fast food workers involved in the $ 15 - an - hour wage battle came together with Black Lives Matter and civil rights activists and headed to Washington at the beginning of the month to participate in the second Million Man March.