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Judge says no one is above the law

The third day of Amy Coney Barrett’s affirmation hearings has began.Refresh this web page for updates. Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., praised Supreme Courtroom nominee Amy Coney Barrett as…

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United Construction Workers Association

The United Construction Workers Association (UCWA) was founded in 1970 by Tyree Scott, an electrician who had become a Seattle civil rights activist. At the request of the American Friends Service Committee, Tyree Scott left the Central Contractors Association which he had created in 1968, to

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Owens, Major Robert (1936- )

Former New York Congressman Major Robert Owens was born on June 28, 1936 in Collierville, Tennessee. He graduated from Hamilton High School in Memphis in 1952 at the age of 16. Owens received a bachelor’s degree from Morehouse College in 1956, and an M.S. in Library Science from Atlanta

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Robert L. Wood was Chairman, President and CEO of Chemtura Corporation. Wood has over

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Rush, Bobby L. (1946- )

Bobby Lee Rush was born in Albany, Georgia on November 23, 1946. He graduated from Marshall High School in that city at the age of seventeen and soon afterwards enlisted in the United States Army. Rush served in the Army from 1963 to 1968 when he was honorably

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Racial Imbalance in Schools

In July 1964 an advisory committee to the State Board of Education, chaired by Dr. Owen B. Kiernan, reported that segregation existed in 78 percent of the schools in Massachusetts and that racial imbalance was detrimental to sound education in six specific ways, including 'serious conflict with the

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NAACP Educational Counseling Committee

The Boston Branch of the NAACP founded its Educational Counseling Committee in 1948 to provide higher education information and guidance to Black young people in Boston high schools. Twenty years later in 1968 the Committee counseled over 340 students and awarded $20,000 in direct college aid to 60

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President Truman created Committee on Civil Rights by Executive Order No. 9808. Two Blacks Attorney Sadie M. Alexander and Channing H. Tobias were members of the committee.

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John Kennedy’s Executive Order 10925 (1961)

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(1974) Congresswoman Barbara Jordan's Statement: The Richard Nixon Impeachment Hearings

Texas Congresswoman Barbara Jordan was selected to give the Opening Statement to the House Judiciary Committee on July 25, 1974, as it began its momentous proceedings on the Impeachment of President Richard Nixon. Her statement appears

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Wangari Maathai

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Conyers, Jr., John (1929- )

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Coleman, Bonnie Watson (1945– )

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Prim, John E. (1898-1961)

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Harris, Patricia Roberts (1924-1985)

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Mfume, Kweisi (Frizzel Gray) (1948 - )

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Benjamin and Sarah Roberts Lawsuit

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