Sentences with phrase «when civil rights»

Circle (1973) is one of a cycle of very large multiple canvas works Andrews completed the early 70s dealing with both racism and sexism done at an intersectional moment in American history when the civil rights movement, the anti-war movement and the Women's Liberation movement reached a peak of visibility and even transformational effectiveness, as the nation approached its Bicentennial.

A 1968 plywood panel from a mural at Resurrection City (the protest encampment that formed that year in D.C.), for example, addresses a period when Civil Rights issues were at the forefront of American politics.

The contemporary moment is reminiscent of the 1960s and 70s when the Civil Rights, Black Power, and Women's Rights Movements, and efforts to diversify art institutions dominated the discourse.

And her critical perspective is one that to a large degree shapes this spare - looking show, which takes a textured view of the political past — a past that is acquiring renewed weight in the immediate present when the civil rights gains, including feminist gains, of the past half - century appear to be up for grabs.

It evolved and appeared in the open when the Civil Rights Movement empowered these African American artists...» — William S. Arnett via Metropolitan Museum of Art

It evolved and appeared in the open when the Civil Rights Movement empowered these African American artists to let their previously hidden visual arts come out of the woods and cemeteries and be seen in the front yards and along the roads.

It is also the black and white of its only two characters, a black man and a white woman, just when civil rights were definitely on the agenda.

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.

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.

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).

Essentially the film is saying that, at a time when civil rights for gays are still under attack, there is no one of Milk's charisma on the scene to lead the charge.

The X-Men comic was created in the 1960s, when civil rights in America had begun to work up to a fever pitch.

Public sector jobs, with the pensions they provide, have been one of the most important ways for black families to enter the middle class since the 1960s, when civil rights legislation and the...

In a boiling decade when the civil rights movement was in full swing and police were clashing with African - Americans across the nation, Lindsay believed the NYPD needed a Civilian Complaint Review Board to serve as a check on their power and show the public, particularly minorities, that a white police force could be held accountable by unbiased people outside the department.

It was a time when the civil rights movement was cresting, when racial violence in the South and in the northern cities was beginning to erupt, when sit - ins and freedom marches were headline events and when We Shall Overcome was almost as familiar a song as any performed by Elvis Presley.

When the civil rights movement was taken over by secular black radicals, that religious vision faded and the movement collapsed.

When the civil rights movement erupted in the 1960s, social observers suggested that the nation was experiencing a revival of the religious zeal that had inspired abolition, the Social Gospel, and the progressive movement.

When the civil rights movement blossomed in the 1960s, Thomas was delighted.

Not exact matches

Ava DuVernay was finishing up her civil rights drama, Selma, when she got a call from a Netflix executive: Would DuVernay be interested in making a documentary?

After police brutally attacked civil rights protesters on «Bloody Sunday» in Selma, Ala., Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, «A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right.

Before they were legends, civil rights leaders were operators who knew when, where, and how to stage a march so that it would be broadcast on the evening news.

In 1939, at a time when Washington's concert halls were still segregated, world - renowned Opera singer Marian Anderson helped advance civil rights when, with the support of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, she performed at the Lincoln Memorial in front of 75,000 people.

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.

When she learns some unsavory information about her family and her hometown, it stirs up old memories in what was then a region stuck in the middle of the tense civil - rights movement.

According to the New York Times, black students have never been responsible for mass shootings that drove the national conversation about gun safety and minority schools have never been the targets of such attacks, leaving civil rights groups wondering why black students would be the focus when seeking to address an issue that plagues white, male students.

Remember a few years ago when Jay Z and civil rights champion Harry Belafonte were beefing about philanthropy and celebrity activism?

Weldon J. Rougeau, a long - time civil rights activist, has considered the issue of diversity from many perspectives — as director of the office of federal contract compliance programs at the U.S. Department of Labor during the Carter administration, as president of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and even as a prisoner for 78 days (58 of them in solitary confinement) in a Baton Rouge, La., jail cell when he was a student activist.

When confronted by human rights organizations regarding the violent evictions, former Canadian ambassador to Guatemala, Kenneth Cook, claimed these images of the eviction were taken during the 36 - year civil war that ravaged Guatemala from 1960 to 1996.

When President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, he cemented a political alliance between African Americans and the Democratic Party that continues to this day.

When a foreign born gay or lesbian has to leave the country despite being in a committed relationship because they can't marry and get the same benefit of residency that the spouses of hetero Americans use all the time, that's a civil rights issue.

Civil rights means the rights to full legal, social, and economic equality, there are benefits when you get married gay partnership do not have if they are denied marriage.

When two people live in a committed relationship for decades and some hospital functionary bars one from visiting the other in the hospital because they can't marry and hence are technically unrelated in the eyes of the law, that is a civil rights issue.

When the believers in this nonexistent christ want to encode their beliefs in civil law and deny me the right make my own medical and reproductive decisions, or who my neighbor can marry, that's enough motivation to speak out.

Right Cathy... because we learned a long time ago that «separate but equal» really works well when it comes to civil rights.

I wonder how these preachers are going to replace all of the support they have received from the LBGT when (if) they decide to abandon the civil rights of «color»?

The primary function of civil law is to limit freedom when an act impinges on the right of another individual or on the rights of society.

Since when has the Catholic church concerned itself with any other civil rights besides the right of people to be deceived by religion?

Johnson shines in this role, especially in his Senate years, when he became the broker of the first substantive compromise on Civil Rights since the end of Reconstruction in the 1870s.

Conservatives, for their part, repelled by the public vision of civil rights advocates and convinced that the programs of the past have failed, prefer not to address racial issues at all; when they do, they talk in formalistic terms about the principle of «color - blind state action.»

• 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.»

All we have now is Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton who only stump when it benefits them... true Civil Rights Leaders championed more than their own cause, but the cause of many...

The U S Supreme court has ruled that marriage is a civil right when they lifted the ban on biracial marriage.

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.

@DanM Dude, only the name has changed when it comes to politics and to say that it was the republicans who were the ones to push through civil rights is looking at history without understanding it.

Were religious people promoting peace when they voted down gay marriage (a civil rights issue, opponents of which will be viewed in the same light as the opponents against civil rights in the 50s and 60s) You are just so comfortable in the majority, you can't see the prejudice and bias you put on people that aren't like you.

It really does mean a lot when groups such as NAACP voice their support for civil rights for the LGBT minority.

One of the ways we do this is by saying that the black church was all about civil rights when the reality is that it wasn't.

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The Christians did a disfavor when they denied both African Americans and Women their equal civil rights.

New York (CNN)- Civil rights lawyers filed papers in federal court Monday seeking to prohibit the New York Police Department's surveillance of Muslim communities when there is no evidence that they are linked to terrorism or other illegal activities.