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Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching
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Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching, edited by Deborah Menkart, Alana D. Murray, & Jenice View. Washington, D.C.: Teaching for Change/PRRAC, 2004, 576 pp; $29.99, paperback.
From two progressive organizations comes a book that merits the attention of scholars, teachers, students, and families interested in the Civil Rights Movement past and present. Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching is the product of years of research, dialogue, and collaboration...
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Put the 'movement back into civil rights teaching'
Philadelphia Tribune, The
; Philadelphia Tribune, The 02-15-2005 Can you name five female civil rights leaders? Did the Civil Rights Movement begin in 1954 and end in 1970? What were the goals of the Black Power Movement? If you can't answer these questions, you may need our myth-busting quiz, challenging conventional wisdom
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IN PROGRAM, COLLEGE STUDENTS SEEK CIVIL RIGHTS
The Boston Globe
; A large, multicultural group of college students sat in a circle on Boston Common's lush green discussing civil rights and economic inequality. A familiar sight, perhaps, for the generation that brought down Jim Crow, but Wednesday's gathering seemed strange for members of a generation criticized
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Beyond Kung Fu Fighting to Fighting for Civil Rights; Honoring Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
U.S. Newswire
; WASHINGTON, April 29 /U.S. Newswire/ -- It's Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, a perfect time to go beyond the popularized fragments of Asian culture like Yoga, Sushi, Kung Fu and Asian decor. The vast traditions and history of Asian Americans are incredibly important to our nation, but what
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Marching to a new war; civil rights groups face a conservative challenge, public doubts and a fraying coalition. (includes related article on new NAACP chair Myrlie Evers-Williams)
U.S. News & World Report
; The image is seared into the American consciousness. On March 7, 1965, a dignified, unarmed column of civil rights marchers crossed an Alabama bridge, protesting for the right to vote. They were met with dogs and clubs, violence and arrests. Segregation triumphed that bloody Sunday in Selma, but it
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Civil rights office called inefficient Unfilled top post seen as weakness
The Boston Globe
; WASHINGTON -- The lack of a civil rights chief at the Justice Department, 11 months after President Clinton took office, has hampered efforts to fight discrimination against women and minorities during the administration's first year, civil rights leaders say. Officials at the department, from
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Civil Rights Coalition Clicks On Tomorrow
The Washington Post
; Where's the modern civil rights movement? Double-click here. Okay, not right here. But sit-ins and fiery rhetoric are being replaced with Internet links and coalitions. Exhibit A: Last night's Leadership Conference on Civil Rights dinner at the Hilton Washington. "What's great is that to be a part
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USDA is committed to improving civil rights
Philadelphia Tribune, The
; Philadelphia Tribune, The 07-28-2000 USDA is committed to improving civil rights A few months ago in this column, I discussed some of the progress we had made to improve our civil rights performance at USDA. But I want to revisit this issue because it is so important and because the pursuit of
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Bush Failing to Fulfill Civil Rights Pledge, Panel Says
The Washington Post
; A private commission yesterday accused President Bush of undermining civil rights protections on many fronts and "fanning the flames of racial intolerance" by insisting a Democratic-sponsored civil rights bill would trigger workplace quotas. Though his record is not nearly as "bleak" as President
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The Civil Rights Identity of Bayard Rustin
Texas Law Review
; Introduction Boyard Rustin was the consummate civil rights strategist and humanitarian.1 Indeed, he shaped the course of social protest for some thirty years.2 First as political adviser to Martin Luther King, Jr. and later as leader of the 1963 March on Washington, Rustin influenced the black
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Changes at Civil Rights Panel may show shift in civil rights
Call & Post
; To advocates for the traditional civil rights movement, President George Bush's decision to replace 25-year-member Mary Frances Berry with Kansas City utilities lawyer Gerald Reynolds as chair of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission was more than just a Republican president picking a Republican
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