Sentences with phrase «work as a civil rights»

Obama graduated from Harvard Law School in 1991 and worked as a civil rights lawyer for a small Chicago firm.

Clegg lives in Woodstock and has worked as a civil rights attorney and serves as chair of the Ulster County Human Rights Commission.

«His actions today are consistent with his life - long work as a civil rights leader and community organizer, including his efforts to steer passage of the Maryland Dream Act,» Jealous spokesman Kevin Harris said.

At 86, Dolores Huerta has been working as a civil rights activist for over six decades.

As the first person in my family to get a college degree (and later a law degree so that I could go on to work as a civil rights attorney), I worked hard to get here and I make no apologies for wanting the best for my son.

A lively biography of the young black playwright who achieved success and recognition for her contribution to the arts and her hard work as a civil rights activist.

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He has received recognition for his commitment to pro bono legal services, including his work as one of the lead attorneys in a successful federal civil rights lawsuit protecting the voting rights of Georgia citizens.

We stand united as San Franciscans to condemn Indiana's new discriminatory law, and will work together to protect the civil rights of all Americans including lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals.

As for the developers» own political leanings, they tell Fortune, «As brothers ourselves, we admire the legacy of brothers John and Robert Kennedy for their commitment to cultivating an America that embraced a young generation, stood for civil rights, and worked towards equal opportunity.»

Call upon the educated, artistic, and creative members of our societies, as well as organizations of civil society, to establish a broad movement for the just treatment of religious minorites in Muslim countries and to raise awareness as to their rights, and to work together to ensure the success of these efforts.

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.

Maybe it worked as you say in the case of civil rights, but definitely not in the case of slavery.

The idea had been Martin Luther King's, at least officially, but Pastor Neuhaus was close to the arduous, difficult civil rights work being done in Bedford - Stuyvesant (the Movement was discovering that Northern neighborhoods had an entirely different, more hardened, multiethnic toughness than Southern cities) and it was my guess that Richard, as much as anybody, was the actual dynamo and idea man behind Clergy an

The idea had been Martin Luther King's, at least officially, but Pastor Neuhaus was close to the arduous, difficult civil rights work being done in Bedford - Stuyvesant (the Movement was discovering that Northern neighborhoods had an entirely different, more hardened, multiethnic toughness than Southern cities) and it was my guess that Richard, as much as anybody, was the actual dynamo and idea man behind Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam, along with William Sloane Coffin, then the pastor of Riverside Church.

For West, the presence of intact, hard - working families and the network of clubs, churches and sports leagues made segregation easier to bear and gave him the education, vision and self - confidence to join the civil rights movement as a young adult.

I suspect that missing from the tribute video will be any acknowledgement of the fact that the founder of Liberty University, Jerry Falwell, vehemently opposed the work of Martin Luther King Jr, publicly condemned him as a communist, and delivered an impassioned sermon the day after King's march to Selma opposing civil rights marchers as «left wing leaders» whose only aim was to stir up racial tensions and violence.

(I have worked as a paralegal for famous civil rights attorneys in the U.S., they won hundreds of millions of dollars, the US Supreme Court heard one of their cases a couple of years ago, and they move in to legal action very quickly.)

An Italian case on similar issues - the deprivation of civil rights, as it happens - is currently working its way through the court.

Haren's past work includes working on civil rights and constitutional law cases while serving as chief counsel to Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D - Calif.)

She had also worked for the New York State Department of Law as an assistant attorney general in the Civil Rights and Real Estate Financing bureaus until 1988, when she became general counsel for the New York City Office of Labor Services, according to the profile.

Democratic Erie County Legislator Betty Jean Grant said Paladino's remarks served as a reminder there's still work left to do on the civil rights front, adding: «It sends a message that we have a got long way to go, we're not there yet.»

In the way the city's criminal justice coordinator works to set and develop policy, so would the civil justice coordinator — and Mr. Levine said his goal would be scaling up to a universal right to counsel in cases that could be potentially life - altering, such as eviction, custody matters, and deportation hearings.

His grandmother lived with a disability, as well as his father (at the end of his life), He sees disability access as a basic civil right and pledged to work aggressively in support of this type of legislation if elected.

«She was a hard - working, substantive lawyer with deep roots in the community,» said Andrew G. Celli Jr., a founding partner at Emery Celli Brinckerhoff & Abady who served as the chief of the civil rights bureau from 1999 to 2003 under the former attorney general, Eliot Spitzer.

«As an IDC member, David has been an effective champion for us, working with Governor Cuomo to reform state government, expand civil rights and invest in public education and environmental protection.

I've known her and I've watched her and its clear that whether as a civil rights attorney working on gender discrimination cases or a grassroots community organizer, Jenifer has demonstrated time and again her ability and her interest and her willingness and her energy in building diverse coalitions to tackle community problems and to lead.

As the freedom movement turned from civil rights to economic rights, it understood that separate is inherently unequal and that no sub-group of working people is secure in its political and economic rights until all of us are secure.

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To determine whether institutions are in compliance with the law, the Office for Civil Rights looks at things such as whether women have equal access to advanced course work in high school as well as postsecondary schooling and graduate work.

The cast works diligently, and Keener is scrappy but calm throughout, with a convincing naturalism as a woman with tremendous strength and a powerful belief in civil rights — at a time when most women were reluctant to speak out against political corruption.

Director Jay Roach turns Robert Schenkkan's acclaimed Broadway play into an engrossing, powerful if slightly overcrowded movie that works as a biopic of LBJ and as a time capsule of a crucial period in the civil rights movement.

The cast works diligently, and Keener is scrappy but calm throughout, with a convincing naturalism as a woman with tremendous strength and a powerful belief in civil rights.

Cranston brings Johnson to life with a bevy of Southern - twanged Big Statements (ex: «There's no place for «nice» in a knife fight») as his commander - in - chief berates his eventual VP Hubert Humphrey (Bradley Whitford), spars with beloved mentor - turned - Civil Rights opponent Senator Richard Russell, Jr. (Frank Langella), and works closely with advisor Walter Jenkins (Todd Weeks), the last of whom he loves «like a son» and yet abandons when the man's homosexuality is exposed late in his reelection run.

While sequels like Iron Man 3 and Captain America: The Winter Soldier have overcome feeling like prequels to a different story audiences haven't seen yet, other entries into this super-powered universe, efforts like Thor: The Dark World, Avengers: Age of Ultron and Captain America: Civil War, struggled to come across as anything other than vehicles conceived and designed to get all of these characters into one place at the right time for this May's massive Avengers: Infinity War, none of them working outside of the larger story being told and as such aren't very entertaining or worth watching more than once.

You play as a biracial Vietnam vet working your way through a corrupt New Orleans - style town to overthrow the mob that betrayed your family, and the story is rife with the open bigotry of the Civil Rights - era South.

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.

The «untitled Nina Simone project» — which has been in the works for several years but was on hold until now due to lack of funding — will tell the story of the late jazz musician and classical pianist who became known as the «High Priestess of Soul,» including her rise to fame, her role in the Civil Rights movement, and her relationship with her manager.

Framing the unfinished work as a radical narration about race in America, Peck matches Baldwin's lyrical rhetoric with rich archival footage of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements, and connects these historical struggles for justice and equality to the present - day movements that have taken shape in response to the killings of young African - American men including Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice, Mike Brown, and Amir Brooks.

The film's ace ensemble casting extends to its smallest roles, including Cuba Gooding Jr. (doing his best work in years) as civil rights attorney Fred Gray and Martin Sheen as federal district court judge Frank M. Johnson.

His work gets him brought in as a suspect by Lt. «Bigfoot» Bjornsen (Josh Brolin), a flat - topped police detective who's a proud violator of civil rights.

Paired with young Jewish lawyer Friedman in a segregationist court, he's forced to fight prejudice as he and Friedman work their case — which helped set the stage for the future Civil Rights Movement.

His work gets him brought in as a suspect by «Bigfoot» Bjornsen (Josh Brolin), a flat - topped police detective who's a proud violator of civil rights.

Beyond the important civil - rights lesson, Selma is a wonderful ensemble portrait of how politics works, much as was Lincoln, Steven Spielberg's 2012 film about the 1864 passage of the 13th amendment.

Identifying these strategies to eliminate non-Serbs as a civil war is tantamount to defining the holocaust as a civil war between German Jews and German Arians.44 This is an example of how recent approaches to human rights can work to conceal and confound who is doing what to whom, thus effectively condoning such violations.45

Hence, whether you are going into teaching, policy making, curriculum development, research and scholarship, administration, social entrepreneurship, new educational media, or some other field — I suggest that to the extent that you see yourself as committed to the «civil rights struggle of our time,» you should work to empower youth rather than solely to advocate or act on their behalves.

Working quickly as soon as the Civil Rights Act was signed into law, the Coleman research team drew a sample of over 4,000 schools, which yielded data on slightly more than 3,000 schools and some 600,000 students in grades 1, 3, 6, 9, and 12.

«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.

For nearly a half - century in the U.S. Senate, Mr. Kennedy was a steadfast champion of the working class and the poor, and a powerful liberal voice on health care, civil rights, and other issues, as well as education.

Less heralded, but equally troubling, is the mission creep of the Office for Civil Rights as it works to reshape the education world and to right whatever alleged wrongs it thinks it sees.

Second, we have identified our monitoring of state and federal programs such as IDEA, Title I, and civil rights as a body of work that can become more aligned to the turnaround practices as well.