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A Civil Rights Pioneer Seeks to Have Her Record Cleared - NYT
Claudette Colvin refused to give up her bus seat to a white woman in Montgomery, Ala., in March 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks. Now 82, she says that justice from the court system is overdue.

Minutes before the white bus driver told Claudette Colvin in 1955 to give her seat to a white woman, she had been looking out the window, thinking of a Black boy from her neighborhood in Montgomery, Ala., who had been sentenced to death. She remembers thinking of her English teacher’s lesson about understanding and taking pride in her history.

Get off, several white passengers told her. Ms. Colvin, who was 15, stayed put, and was promptly arrested.

“History had me glued to the seat,” she recalled six decades later.

Ms. Colvin, who refused to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus on March 2, 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks, filed a petition on Tuesday to have her juvenile arrest record expunged, saying in an affidavit that justice from the court system was overdue.

“I’m not doing it for me, I’m 82 years old,” Ms. Colvin said in an interview on Tuesday. “But I wanted my grandchildren and my great-grandchildren to understand that their grandmother stood up for something very important, and that it changed our lives a lot, changed attitudes.”

While Mrs. Parks’s story is well known, Ms. Colvin’s role in the Montgomery bus boycott and the broader civil rights movement has been overlooked. And yet the significance of her defiance that day was widely recognized among the emerging leaders of the movement, including the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who met with city and bus company officials after her arrest. Ms. Colvin would later serve as the star witness in the landmark case that effectively ended bus segregation.

Ms. Colvin filed her petition in family court in Montgomery County, where her case was processed in 1955. The petition says that clearing Ms. Colvin’s record “serves in the interest of justice and further, acknowledges her integral role in the civil rights movement.”
My mother was 14 in 1955.
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carmenjonze wrote: Wed Oct 27, 2021 3:36 pm A Civil Rights Pioneer Seeks to Have Her Record Cleared - NYT
My mother was 14 in 1955.
Colvin is a true American hero. Hopefully her record will quickly be cleared. Of course, I wouldn't count on it. Still pretty ugly in Birmingham.
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Black Political Rights Can’t Be Divorced From Economic Justice. Why Fannie Lou Hamer's Message and Fight Endure Today - Time
Addressing a crowd in Madison, Wisc., in 1971, civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer said she knew what it meant to be hungry. She recalled growing up in the 1920s and 1930s in a sharecropping family and often going to bed with an empty stomach. “I know what the pain of hunger is about,” she told the crowd.

The youngest of 20 children, Hamer did her part on the plantation to help her family make ends meet. In her autobiography To Praise Our Bridges, Hamer vividly recalls memories of experiencing poverty as a child: “To feed us during the winter months mama would go ’round from plantation to plantation and would ask landowners if she could have the cotton that had been left…Then she’d take that bale of cotton and sell it and that would give us some of the food that we would need.”

Hamer’s childhood experiences drove her passion later in life when she not only fought for Black political power, but economic justice as well. She understood that Black political rights could not be divorced from economic rights and recognized that economic security was fundamental to the struggle for civil rights. “If you have a pig in your backyard, if you have some vegetables in your garden, you can feed yourself and your family, and nobody can push you around,” she insisted in the late 1960s.

The dire financial challenges Hamer’s family endured during the early 20th century mirrored the lives of many Black people in Mississippi—and across the South—during this period. A study of Indianola, Miss., by anthropologist Hortense Powdermaker captured the devastating effects of sharecropping in the South during the 1930s. Of the thousands of Black people who worked as sharecroppers, Powdermaker found that only 25% to 30% received a fair settlement for crops at the end of the year. Half of the Black families in the Mississippi Delta during this period could not afford to maintain a nutritious diet.

Thirty years after Powdermaker’s study, economic conditions in Mississippi had not improved much. By 1960, 75% of all families in the Mississippi Delta were living below the federal poverty line of $3,000. These conditions were worse for Black families in the region with the median annual income of a Black family in Quitman County, Miss., estimated at $819—less than a third of the $3,000 line. On a national level, an estimated 40% of Black Americans in the United States were living under the poverty line in 1965.
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carmenjonze wrote: Wed Oct 27, 2021 3:36 pm A Civil Rights Pioneer Seeks to Have Her Record Cleared - NYT



My mother was 14 in 1955.
That is a good post and good story she deserves her place in history along with justice.
It reminds me of how everyone knows and praises Jackie Robinson but forgets about or doesn't know about Larry Doby
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Glennfs wrote: Wed Oct 27, 2021 3:49 pm That is a good post and good story she deserves her place in history along with justice.
It reminds me of how everyone knows and praises Jackie Robinson but forgets about or doesn't know about Larry Doby
All the civil rights heroes were on our side. And when the Democratic Party turned on those who turned fire hoses on our heroes, they joined the GOP. I mean, if you say those on the side of Civil Rights were heroes, what was Strom Thurmond, and why did you vote for him so many times?
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gounion wrote: Wed Oct 27, 2021 3:54 pm All the civil rights heroes were on our side. And when the Democratic Party turned on those who turned fire hoses on our heroes, they joined the GOP. I mean, if you say those on the side of Civil Rights were heroes, what was Strom Thurmond, and why did you vote for him so many times?
Ernest Hollings is the SC governor who put the battle flag on the Capitol. Democratic party member until the day he died.

Odd how when I agree with a post I still get shit. Thanks to CJ'S post and knowledge I and probably we learned something that we didn't know or maybe had forgotten.

It also reminded me of Larry Doby I wonder how many people here know who Doby was or his contributions and historical significance
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Glennfs wrote: Wed Oct 27, 2021 4:21 pm Ernest Hollings is the SC governor who put the battle flag on the Capitol. Democratic party member until the day he died.

Odd how when I agree with a post I still get shit. Thanks to CJ'S post and knowledge I and probably we learned something that we didn't know or maybe had forgotten.

It also reminded me of Larry Doby I wonder how many people here know who Doby was or his contributions and historical significance
Oh I'm sorry, Glenn. You threw us a bone! We should hold you in high reverence, and forgive you for voting for all those racist Republicans all those years, and for the defending the racism of the GOP.

Wow, we're sooo proud of you! [/sarcasm]
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gounion wrote: Wed Oct 27, 2021 4:25 pm Oh I'm sorry, Glenn. You threw us a bone! We should hold you in high reverence, and forgive you for voting for all those racist Republicans all those years, and for the defending the racism of the GOP.

Wow, we're sooo proud of you! [/sarcasm]
My two Senators and my congressman are not racist and for that part neither is the gop.
Are there racist in the GOP yes. Are some in the house and Senate yes.
But there are far more Democrats in the the Senate and especially the house who are tantamount socialist.
Beginning with every member of the progressive congressional caucus.
As for your sarcasm I have no real problem with it. Knowing that you and most other progressives especially those here can never support anything that isn't part of the progressive agenda. Nor can you ever oppose anything from the progressive agenda unless it is to say it isn't far left enough.

So when you run into people who are openmined enough to support either side depending on the issue it throws you for a loop and is something you just can't comprehend.
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Glennfs wrote: Wed Oct 27, 2021 4:33 pm My two Senators and my congressman are not racist and for that part neither is the gop.
Are there racist in the GOP yes. Are some in the house and Senate yes.
But there are far more Democrats in the the Senate and especially the house who are tantamount socialist.
Beginning with every member of the progressive congressional caucus.
As for your sarcasm I have no real problem with it. Knowing that you and most other progressives especially those here can never support anything that isn't part of the progressive agenda. Nor can you ever oppose anything from the progressive agenda unless it is to say it isn't far left enough.

So when you run into people who are openmined enough to support either side depending on the issue it throws you for a loop and is something you just can't comprehend.
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You don't support dems on any issue or in any way. Your posts such as the one on this thread are bullshit. You voted for LOTS of racists, and Graham is one of the most corrupt Senators in America, Donald Trump's number one man, which makes me laugh when you say you don't support Trump.

Look, you say this woman was a hero. Yet you voted over and over for one of the biggest racists in the 20th Century, Strom Thurmond. Unlike Robert Byrd, he never even tried to say he was wrong in the past, that racism is wrong. He was a racist his entire life.

So explain why we should believe your praise of this woman.
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Oy, who are his reps that arent racist?

Wait, I have to go get a seat belt, tie it to my lazyboy and put a 12 inch thick 2 foot wide sponge on the top of my head in case I springboard into the ceiling.


Oh, time to repeat this

When left and right disagree, the right is NEVER right and I can prove it, if any con wants to take the challenge.
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Libertas wrote: Wed Oct 27, 2021 4:40 pm Oy, who are his reps that arent racist?

Wait, I have to go get a seat belt, tie it to my lazyboy and put a 12 inch thick 2 foot wide sponge on the top of my head in case I springboard into the ceiling.


Oh, time to repeat this

When left and right disagree, the right is NEVER right and I can prove it, if any con wants to take the challenge.
Ralph Norman and Senators Graham and Scott. Three fine men doing a great job
At first I couldn't stand Norman but he has turned out to be our best representative in the 30+ years I've lived in the district.
Tim Scott is a great man very level headed. As for Graham I am not a big fan but since my choice is him or a lackey for Schumer we don't have any choice.
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Glennfs wrote: Wed Oct 27, 2021 4:46 pm Ralph Norman and Senators Graham and Scott. Three fine men doing a great job
At first I couldn't stand Norman but he has turned out to be our best representative in the 30+ years I've lived in the district.
Tim Scott is a great man very level headed. As for Graham I am not a big fan but since my choice is him or a lackey for Schumer we don't have any choice.
Graham is one of the most corrupt senators of all time. Tim Scott has to stay in his lane, or he'll get the Colin Powell treatment. He supported Trump in both Impeachments. I'd say Ralph Norman is a Trumper that probably voted against Trump's impeachment - twice. Am I right? I have NOT looked it up. Have you?

Keep telling us how you DON'T support Trump.
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You just called Graham a fine man, then turned around and said you didn't have a choice.
Graham is the biggest, most spineless politician in America. He's a Trump bootlicker and a liar who spreads nothing but fear based lies and distractions. Tim Scott is also someone who walks lock and step with Trump. They are Trump. Neither are fine men or good people.
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The GOP offers voters nothing but assurance that racism is not only OK with them but a top priority.
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gounion wrote: Wed Oct 27, 2021 3:40 pm Colvin is a true American hero. Hopefully her record will quickly be cleared. Of course, I wouldn't count on it. Still pretty ugly in Birmingham.
This should have happened long ago.
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Here's an opinion piece from the man Glenn calls his "best representative in 30+ years". Is it any wonder that some people question your honest about your support of Donald Trump, Glenn?

Remember, you just accused me of attacking working people because I didn't comment on someone else's post. So if you support this man and his views, it's pretty clear where you stand.
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Glennfs wrote: Wed Oct 27, 2021 4:21 pm Ernest Hollings is the SC governor who put the battle flag on the Capitol. Democratic party member until the day he died.
Conservative white racist, just like the rest.
Odd how when I agree with a post I still get shit. Thanks to CJ'S post and knowledge I and probably we learned something that we didn't know or maybe had forgotten.

It also reminded me of Larry Doby I wonder how many people here know who Doby was or his contributions and historical significance
Larry Doby and Jackie Robinson's white peers did not have to endure the sh#t that they did.

They endured that sh#t due to racist, anti-minority conservative whites and their totalitarian rule of African Americans.
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https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politi ... 99098.html

Ralph Norman, good ole fashioned repub racist.

U.S. Rep. Steve King, the Iowa Republican shunned by members of his own party for making sympathetic comments about white supremacists, has at least one colleague in South Carolina willing to defend him: U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman.

Read more at: https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politi ... rylink=cpy
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Libertas wrote: Wed Oct 27, 2021 6:11 pm https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politi ... 99098.html

Ralph Norman, good ole fashioned repub racist.
Lol this goes under White Conservatism Is Destroying This Country :P
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gounion wrote: Wed Oct 27, 2021 3:40 pm Colvin is a true American hero. Hopefully her record will quickly be cleared. Of course, I wouldn't count on it. Still pretty ugly in Birmingham.
This is one way conservative whites piled criminal records on people that follow them for life, then labeled our entire group criminal.

They're the criminals. Such dishonest people.
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Libertas wrote: Wed Oct 27, 2021 4:57 pm The GOP offers voters nothing but assurance that racism is not only OK with them but a top priority.
Racism
Misogyny
Religious hatred
Discrimination
Greed
Misanthropy
Same old conservative whites, different millennium.
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carmenjonze wrote: Wed Oct 27, 2021 9:12 pm Racism
Misogyny
Religious hatred
Discrimination
Greed
Misanthropy
Same old conservative whites, different millennium.
Good list, will borrow from time to time.
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The Challenges of Reclaiming Filipino Louisiana’s Centuries-Old History - Atlas Obscura
Members of what is perhaps the oldest Asian community in the United States are committed to preserving—and sharing—their story.

Indeed, the history of Louisiana’s Filipino community has been largely written by outsiders—when it has been written about at all. In a state where Acadian and West African heritage sites and communities are celebrated, St. Malo and other early Filipino villages are rarely mentioned, though they are among Louisiana’s oldest.

“People in power tell the stories, and Filipinos weren’t in power,” says Randy Gonzales, an English professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. “It wasn’t malicious, they just didn’t think about it any other way.”

Gonzales, a fourth-generation Louisiana Filipino, is among a handful of people in the community uncovering and reclaiming their history. Like navigating the bayou, it is not an easy course. Separating fact from myth remains a challenge, and much of the evidence has been lost. St. Malo, for example, was destroyed by the New Orleans Hurricane of 1915. In 2019, community members erected a marker 30 miles east of New Orleans, but the exact location of the village, like its date of origin, remains a mystery. Retrieving the early history of a community that settled in these swamps more than two centuries ago, and left no written record, requires both creativity and caution.

“In terms of Filipinos coming here, the biggest question we had was why?” Gonzales asks. The answer lies in an old empire. The Philippines’ Spanish overseers, in power since 1565, “weren’t interested in educating, so there weren’t many opportunities in the Philippines,” Gonzales says. When Spain acquired Louisiana from the French in 1763, people from around the empire, including the Philippines, began trickling into the colony. “Louisiana provided opportunities for these early migrants,” says Gonzales. “There was a comfort level to the culture of Louisiana; people spoke Spanish and practiced Catholicism.”

The Mississippi Delta’s brackish backwaters abounded with shrimp, and Filipino fishermen found they faced little competition in the deep bayou. St. Malo became a launching point for fishing expeditions to even more remote sites. Facing malaria, heat, and hurricanes, these early settlers made their living from shrimping; the wealthiest among them married into surrounding communities and educated their children in New Orleans.

Felipe Madriaga was one of hundreds of Filipino seamen drawn to St. Malo. Born around 1815 in North Luzon in the Philippines, he established himself as a sailor in Liverpool, and crisscrossed the Atlantic before eventually settling in St. Malo with his wife, an Irishwoman named Brigette Nugent, in 1846.
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He’s the youngest
Chief in his First Nation’s history. Now he’s leading their fight against climate change
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Perched on the edge of the Porcupine river, Dana Tizya-Tramm pointed upstream to a stand of jack pines that jutted into the partially-frozen water. The trees were like lemmings marching off a cliff. Those at the tip were falling into the river, while those in back awaited the inevitable.

“Drunken forests,” said Tizya-Tramm, a cigarette between his fingers. He says neither he nor the elders remember there being such a pronounced lean in the past. It comes at least in part, he explained, because the earth no longer stays frozen year-round, even so far north.
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Black Louisianans waged "The First Battle of the Ballot Box" 156 years ago - Roudanez: History and Legacy
"This is a great political contest; it is the first battle of the ballot box. Its importance for the future is as great as Milliken’s Bend, Port Hudson, Fort Wagner and Fort Blakely were for the manhood of our race. Let us show ourselves...as deliberate and firm in our civic capacities as our brethren were on the battlefield as soldiers. Make therefore all exertions to attend the polls...and do not let any of your friends keep back from them.” –The NEW ORLEANS TRIBUNE. November 5, 1865.
On November 6, 1865 the TRIBUNE Radicals and their supporters conducted a statewide voluntary election to demonstrate the fervor with which men of color would go to the polls. At great risk, over 19,000 unofficial ballots were cast. This simulated enfranchisement was a commanding display of Black power and an enormous symbolic victory for the newspaper. A powerful civil rights movement coalesced around the TRIBUNE and eventually won the “battle of the ballot box” when Black men cast their first official votes in the fall of 1867. Read the full editorial, re-published here by Roudanez History & Legacy, below.
“To the Disfranchised Citizens.” New Orleans Tribune. November 5, 1865.

“To-morrow, the sixth of November, is the day appointed for holding an election, or rather two elections, as two different operations of that kind will take place. First, the loyal voters of the State, that is to say the “white” American citizens, will vote, at certain places which have been designated by the civil authorities, to elect persons to fill various offices. With this election the disfranchised citizens have nothing to do, since they are excluded, by an unjust law, of political action, though they be not exempted from bearing their part of the public charges. In a few words, they bear taxation without representation.
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