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The "good old times" the Republicans want to go back to:
Today in Labor History March 31, 1966: There was a two-day boycott of Seattle schools protesting segregation. The protest was organized by the Central Area Civil Rights Committee (CACRC), the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). The organizers set up eight “Freedom Schools” to educate students who walked out of class. But they had to scramble to come up with dozens more because so many students honored the boycott. The “Freedom Schools” taught African American history and the history of the civil rights movement, among other things.
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“It seems like we’re headed in the direction where there’s even an attempt to deny that the institution of #slavery even existed, or that #JimCrow laws & #segregation & #RacialViolence against Black communities, Black families, Black individuals even occurred,” said historian Clarissa Myrick-Harris, a professor at Morehouse College, the historically Black campus in Atlanta.
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#CivilRights advocates, #historians & #Black political leaders sharply rebuked #Trump on Friday for his order, entitled “Restoring Truth & Sanity to American History.” They argued that his #ExecutiveOrder targeting the #Smithsonian Institution is his admin’s latest move to downplay how #race, #racism & #BlackAmericans themselves have shaped the nation’s story.
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CET Just because other people get rights, it doesn't mean, you loose any or that your rights loose value.
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Blue states need to step up and have laws prohibiting companies that segregate from doing business in their state.
IIRC, New York had something similar in the 1950s. There may be some old laws already on the books to be dusted off with a bit of updated language.
NPR: 'Segregated facilities' are no longer explicitly banned in federal contracts
Today in Labor History March 19, 1935: Harlem Uprising occurred, during the Great Depression, after rumors circulated that a black Puerto Rican teenage shoplifter was beaten by employees at an S. H. Kress "five and dime" store, and then killed by the police. Protests were quickly organized by the Young Liberators and the Young Communist League, which were promptly declared illegal by the police. Participants smashed windows of the store and began looting. The protest and looting spread, causing $200 million in damages. Police arrested 125 people and killed 3. Mayor LaGuardia set up a multi-racial Commission to investigate the causes of the riot, headed by African-American sociologist E. Franklin Frazier and with members including labor leader A. Philip Randolph. The identified "injustices of discrimination in employment, the aggressions of the police, and the racial segregation" as conditions which led to the outbreak of rioting, and congratulated the Communist organizations as deserving "more credit than any other element in Harlem for preventing a physical conflict between whites and blacks".
Je me demandais quand ils en viendraient à s'attaquer aux lois anti-ségrégation.
Ben, ça commence.
Le gouvernement fédéral US n'interdit plus explicitement aux entrepreneurs d'avoir des restaurants, des salles d'attente ségrégués.
Punaise, c'est ahurissant de mettre ce hashtag dans un contexte contemporain..
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@nancycomics Interesting that the lack of housing was enough of an issue that it featured in a syndicated, widely-seen cartoon strip. Once upon a time the federal government reacted in constructive ways to the need for housing. Unfortunately, racism and segregation created the negative idea people have about government housing projects.
#Housing #HousingPolicy #USPolitics #Segregation #Discrimination #YouCannotSeeItIfYouDoNotLook
https://www.enterprisecommunity.org/housing-policy-timeline/1929-1945
"No, actually, we weren't overreacting, fuck you," example #10,367,254: "DOD Will No Longer Prohibit Contractors from Running Segregated Facilities"
Ref: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dod-will-no-longer-prohibit-contractors-from-running-segregated-facilities
#politics #USPol #segregation
TPM - Talking Points Memo · DOD Will No Longer Prohibit Contractors from Running Segregated Facilities
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Our research should be of special interest to anyone into #urbanism #carcentrism #cardependence #walkability #segregation like @BrentToderian @TheWarOnCars @nerd4cities @notjustbikes @SheDrivesMobility @straphanger
"It cannot be overstated how demoralizing being put in a segregated classroom is. It makes you feel like you have a pathology that hurts other students. It makes you feel like you’re less intelligent and less capable. My classmates at the time told me it felt like we were hopeless causes. My peers said this in elementary school. Nobody should have to go through that, especially at a young age. "
https://www.the74million.org/article/students-view-im-autistic-special-education-failed-me/ #Education #Ableism #Segregation @disability
www.the74million.org · Student’s View: I’m Autistic. Special Education Failed Me
Today in Labor History February 16, 1945: The Alaska Equal Rights Act was signed into law. It was the first anti-discrimination law in the U.S. the law prevents and criminalizes discrimination against anyone in public areas based on their race. The law came in response to the struggle of Indigenous Alaskans fighting discrimination. In 1944, Alberta Schenck (Inupiaq) protested segregation by deliberately sitting in the “whites-only” section of a movie theater in Nome, Alaska. The cops arrested her.
I just stumbled upon an interesting journal called Journal of Language and Discrimination. Seems like it has a bunch of good stuff on #language and #segregation in various contexts. Super-focused on #sociolinguistics and #sociology, but clearly some room for #geography as well.
Sadly, none of the articles I was interested in are OA, but I'll see if I can read some of them tomorrow, when I am connected to the university network.
Also, how did I not know this journal existed?
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"Christians could be counted among them all. At lunch counters in Nashville, in schoolhouse doors in Tuscaloosa, and in the streets of Birmingham, white Christians were there, fighting to maintain segregation, confident of God's blessing.”
~ Ibid.
#racism #segregation #churches #Christians #WhiteEvangelicals #CivilRights #FederalGovernment
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“The crowds howling outside Central High School for the heads of the nine black students inside, the mobs at bus depots in Alabama waiting to attack the freedom riders on their arrival, the state troopers beating back peaceful marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge—"
~ Ibid., p. 67
#racism #segregation #churches #Christians #WhiteEvangelicals #CivilRights #FederalGovernment
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