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• Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (34): Rosa Parks

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 504
  Rosa Parks’ refusal to obey bus driver James Blake’s order that she give up her seat to make room for a white passenger, and her subsequent arrest, is one of the most famous events in the history of the American civil rights movement . Read the whole story here .  Rosa Parks bus diagram ( source ) ...
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• From Swastika to Jim Crow

  
  Movie Mom — Authority: 505
  Because this is the 20th anniversary of the Washington DC Jewish Film Festival , all of the previous festival directors were given the chance to pick their favorites from past years to put on this years schedule. That is how I got to see " From Swastika to Jim Crow " today. Hitler came to power in January of ...
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• Switzerland’s vote to ban minarets boosts European racists

  
  WHITE WATCH — Authority: 128
  European Jim Crow. Is it time for white minorities in non-white nations to be targeted for legalized discrimination? Across Europe, racists have cheered the result of last Sunday’s referendum in Switzerland, which saw a vote to impose a ban on the building of minarets on mosques. “Switzerland forever ...
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• Culture Warrior: Liberal Guilt

  
  Film School Rejects — Authority: 661
  Warning: This article contains major spoilers on the film Precious. On a recent episode of Slate’s Culture Gabfest (direct link), the hosts of the podcast addressed the much-debated over issues surrounding the Sundance sleeper-hit/potential awards contender Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire ...
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• Drug War Related Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing

  
  aid and comfort — Authority: 106
  On Thursday Dec. 3, 2009 the United States Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on Virginia Sen. Jim Webbs S-714 , "to establish a national criminal justice commission" . This could be the most important piece of legislation for drug policy reform in the past thirty-nine years since Richard Nixon declared ...
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• MOGO Bookshelf: The Help

  
  Humane Connection — Authority: 130
  I finished the bestseller, The Help , by Kathryn Stockett , this weekend and I recommend it wholeheartedly. A novel set in the early 1960s in Jackson, Mississippi, The Help tells the stories of black maids working for white families in the tempestuous shifts from segregation and Jim Crow to civil rights. It is ...
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• MOGO Bookshelf: The Help

  
  Zoe Weil — Authority: 121
  I finished the bestseller, The Help , by Kathryn Stockett, this weekend and I recommend it wholeheartedly. A novel set in the early 1960s in Jackson, Mississippi, The Help tells the stories of black maids working for white families in the tempestuous shifts from segregation and Jim Crow to civil rights. It is ...
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• Good Hair

  
  Poptimal.com — Authority: 486
  The same thing that makes you laugh makes you cry.  This old saying best describes my thoughts about Chris Rock’s documentary Good Hair .  As a Black woman I was very curious to see just what this film was all about.  Notions of “good” and “bad” hair have existed within the Black community since time ...
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• Slavery in America — Part 10

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 551
  President Grant was willing to suspend habeaus corpus to insure the 15th Amendment, establishing voting rights for freedman.  He later signed the Civil Rights Act of 1875 which entitled equal treatment in public accommodations and jury selection. The Ku Klux Klan was vigorously prosecuted. There were 1000 ...
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• American Insurgents

  
  LENIN'S TOMB — Authority: 578
  Review of Gerald Horne, The End of Empires: African Americans and India . “The Vanguard of Anti-Imperialism...” Gerald Horne is an historian who has been revealing neglected aspects of African American history for several decades, particularly those relating to class struggle, communism, and what W E B ...
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• Snitch: The Drug War “crisis in black America”

  
  aid and comfort — Authority: 106
  "[President Nixon] emphasized that you have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks. The key is to devise a system that recognizes this while not appearing to." H.R. Haldemans diary according to former Wall Street Journal reporter Dan Baum in his book " Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs and the ...
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• Obama Shout Out to ‘Congressional Medal of Honor Winner’ Who Isn’t…

  
  Mcnorman's Weblog — Authority: 436
  Another wtf moment for POTUS.Ah, the dangers of giving shout outs without a teleprompter. Crow is not a Medal of Honor recipient. As noted by the Congressional Medal of Honor Society:The Medal of Honor is the highest award for valor in action against an enemy force which can be bestowed upon an individual [...]
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• Black Indians at Smithsonian

  
  American Red Tory — Authority: 99
  Specifically, the National Museum of the American Indian .  Fascinating, maddening, enlightening, racist and anti-racist, historical and anti-historical discussion among the Comments, too! Here’s the exhibit’s website . Speaking as a controverted Nanticoke (who doesn’t qualify for Indian Assn. membership at ...
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• Jim Crow laws

  
  Sex Offender Issues — Authority: 149
  Wikipedia article Below is only the first portion of the above link. Click above to read the entire article. Replace the word "blacks" or "negro" with "sex offender" and you will see the same issues in the draconian sex offender laws. The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws in the United States enacted ...
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• *The Greensboro Massacre 1979- Never Forget

  
  AMERICAN LEFT HISTORY — Authority: 142
  Click on title to link to a YouTube film clip of some of the events of that day in 1979 when various right-wing paramilitary thugs murdered five communist workers. Commentary This is the 30th Anniversary of the heinous crimes of 1979 against communist workers in Greensboro, North Carolina This is a repost of ...
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• Jim Crow laws, and a painted rock…

  
  this fragile tent — Authority: 423
  On the shore a few hundred yards from where I live, is this rock.It has probably been there since the last ice age, but at some point in the last 150 years, someone thought that the point on one side looked like a beak, and painted it black, and began to call it ‘Jim Crow’. [...]
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• Who’s Your Daddy? It Wasn’t a Joke in Jim Crow Mississippi.

  
  All Other Persons — Authority:
  Segregation in the Jim Crow South was about two things: political and economic power, and sex. The entire system was designed to keep blacks from power in government and business, and black men from intimacy with white women. This had obvious negative effects on the South’s black population. African Americans were ...
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• Old White Dude Stirs Controversy w/Noose-Gun-Confederate Flag Display in Sacramento

  
  STREET KNOWLEDGE MEDIA — Authority: 488
  Source: BreitbartAm I mean to say that he will croak soon anyway? 
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• COTW – THE KKK CONNECTION

  
  Jacky Jasper's Diary of a Hollywood Street King — Authority: 145
  Tweet This Story! Charles Says: October 24th, 2009 at 11:05 Condoleezza Rice Won’t Be Alone at Uncle Toms Cabin I think you are a simple minded punk bitch. You tare down a sista like Condoleezza, you should encourage black women to be as successful as her, not call her a sell out because you don’t ...
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• 50 years after “Black Like Me,” blackface again.

  
  SF Gray Panthers — Authority: 126
  BBC News, Washington, October 25, 2009 Exposing the colour of prejudice By Kevin Connolly Griffin exposed the discrimination prevalent in the Deep South Griffin exposed the discrimination prevalent in the Deep South How much does the colour of our skin make us who we are, and shape the way the world sees ...
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