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Bloomington » An Indiana University committee is preparing a recommendation on whether to rename a gymnasium named for a longtime trustee who advocated racial segregation in the 1940s.
HTMF: Prince Rupert's Website (Free subscription) | 28/09/2008
Keep talking if you want, I agree with you about the situation not being okay, about seeing eye dogs being allowed... about most of it. As for racial segregation... racial segregation was a result of years of slavery which was a result of blatant racis...
Pickled Politics (Free subscription) | 11/09/2008
There have been many debates over faith schools , what should be taught in schools, what should be worn in schools, and the suggestion from Ken Livingstone's closest ally (what lovely people he hangs around with) that racial segregation would be in order . All these issues affect children already in education, but what about those not in the school system? Johann Hari reminds us about them. His section...
Bitch. Ph.D. (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
I live in Chicago. My adopted city is one with a history of immigration, ethnic pride, migration, violence, politics, poverty, ambition, and working class values (with a little head breakin' and racial segregation thrown in for good measure.) It's also a city that has always taken part in grassroots community organizing, the thing the GOP sneers at. The thing about grassroots organizing is that it...
Daily Mail News (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
England’s first Hindu state school opens its doors to pupils this month amid fears that it will fuel racial segregation.
EducateDeviate (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
Ethan’s experiences at his National Service term strongly reveals just how racist the system really is - and how it’s institutionalised: We were asked several times to line up according to race (Malays here, Chinese here, Indians here, Dan Lain-Lain here) in order to distribute the races equally when it came to sorting us into classes, [...]
The Freethinker (Free subscription) | 17/08/2008
THE despicable, anti-semitic, anti-Black, Nazi-loving Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa – principle architect and stout defender of racial segregation – preached for decades that the separation of the races had been ordained by God. It claimed to have found ample justification in the Bible for supporting the country’s vile, White supremacist apartheid system – and [...]
bilerico.com (Free subscription) | 14/08/2008
click to enlarge From Wikipedia : The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a political and social protest campaign started in 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, intended to oppose the city's policy of racial segregation on its public transit system. The ensuing struggle lasted from December 1, 1955, to December 20, 1956, and led to a United States Supreme Court decision that declared the Alabama and Montgomery laws...
Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 14/08/2008
I n 1948, President Harry S. Truman ordered an end to racial segregation in the military. That historic mandate advanced civil rights, but the primary purpose was military necessity. Sixty years later, activists trying to claim the "civil rights" mantle are demanding repeal of the 1993 law that says homosexuals are not eligible to serve in the military. What would happen if they were successful?
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
STOP GENDER APARTHEID definition Apartheid meaning separateness in Afrikaans cognate to English apart and hood was a system of legalized racial segregation enforced by the National Party government of South Africa between 1948 and 1994. Apartheid as opposed to discrimination is legislated prejudice whether it be on economic racial or gender grounds. In this case it it legislation that dis
Stageleft:. Life on the left side (Free subscription) | 31/07/2008
- noun [uh- pahrt -heyt] a social policy or racial segregation involving political and economic and legal discrimination
Legal Theory Blog (Free subscription) | 30/07/2008
Jeannine Bell (Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington) has posted Hate Thy Neighbor (Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, Vol. 5, No. 1, 2007) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This Article addresses one of the consequences of racial segregation in...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 29/07/2008
A branch of the US government is expected today to offer black Americans what it gave American Indians earlier this year: an apology for their past mistreatment
BlackPoliticsontheWeb.com (Free subscription) | 28/07/2008
John Bresnahan, Politico - The House is scheduled to take up a resolution (H.Res.194) next week “apologizing for the enslavement and racial segregation of African-Americans.” The non-binding resolution was introduced by Rep. Steve Cohen (Tenn.), a white Democrat who represents a majority African-American district in Memphis. Early in 2007, Cohen expressed interest in joiing the Congressional Black...
Sardonic Sistah's Summer Place (Free subscription) | 26/07/2008
According to Politico.com next week the House wants to take up resolution H.Res.194 that will apologize “for the enslavement and racial segregation of African-Americans.” The resolution, which was introduced at the beginning of the 110th Congress, makes no mention of reparations, but it does state that black Americans ”continue to suffer from the consequences of slavery and Jim Crow — long after [...]...
