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October 09, 2010

National Gay And Lesbian Civil Rights Leader To Speak At Clarkson Tuesday

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A national leader in gay and lesbian civil rights and a bestselling author, Windmeyer opens the closet door that traditionally keeps students silenced on [...]

October 09, 2010

Civil Unions In 2010?

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It would be supremely arrogant to call it our Civil Rights Movement, but it's probably the most sweeping social shift likely to be made for a long time. [...]

October 09, 2010

Dem: Civil Rights Commission Went 'Completely Overboard' With Holder Letter

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The conservative majority of the US Commission on Civil Rights today approved two letters addressed the Attorney General Eric Holder, alleging that the [...]

October 09, 2010

Thrown In Jail For Not Reciting The Pledge Of Allegiance

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What happens when a stubborn judge and a civil rights lawyer butt heads in the court room? Well, for the lawyer, it means jail time for contempt of court [...]

October 19, 2010

Civil Rights Workshop Planned With The Office Of The Attorney General

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Alphonso David serves as Bureau Chief of the Civil Rights Bureau's, where his jurisdiction includes public safety and the protection of New Yorkers' civil [...]

October 15, 2010

Education Dept. Sees 11% Spike In Civil Rights Complaints

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The US Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights received nearly 7000 complaints this fiscal year, an 11% increase and the largest jump in at least [...]

October 09, 2010

Civil Rights Groups Demand National Moratorium

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by MortgageOrb.com on Friday 08 October 2010 National civil rights groups - including the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the National Fair [...]

October 15, 2010

Michigan Civil Rights Commission Condemns Andrew Shirvell's Attacks On Chris ...

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The Michigan Civil Rights Commission has condemned the actions of Assistant Attorney General Andrew Shirvell, who has maintained a blog ridiculing and [...]

October 09, 2010

Civil Rights Leaders To Speak At ACLUQC Meeting

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National civil rights leaders the Rev. Msgr. Marvin A. Mottet and Bernice Jones will discuss "The History of Civil Rights in the USA" at the meeting of the [...]

October 19, 2010

DOJ: Islam IS A Religion

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In the brief, the DOJ argues that the lawsuit implicates two federal civil rights statutes, the Religious Land Use Act and the Church Arson Prevention Act, [...]

October 19, 2010

TC Professor Sues Philadelphia Police, Alleges Civil Rights Violations

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English education at Teachers College, filed a federal lawsuit against the Philadelphia police department last week, alleging civil rights violations. [...]

October 15, 2010

Number Of Ed Civil Rights Complaints On The Rise

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The Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights received nearly 7000 complaints this fiscal year, an 11 percent increase and the largest jump in at [...]

October 19, 2010

Martin Luther King's Likeness Used In Antigay Marriage Ad Causes Controversy

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By ThirdAge News Staff The National Organization for Marriage have infuriated some gay rights group after using the likeness of civil rights leader Martin [...]

October 15, 2010

Backing Prop 19, California NAACP Calls Marijuana Legalization A Civil Rights ...

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The California NAACP supports Prop 19 and says legalizing marijuana is a civil rights issue. So we're joined on the phone now from Sacramento by California [...]

October 15, 2010

Kitzhaber, Chris Love Dudley Speak At Oregon's First Civil Rights Day

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Gubernatorial candidate John Kitzhaber and Chris Love Dudley, wife of gubernatorial candidate Chris Dudley, were invited to speak on behalf of Civil Rights [...]

October 15, 2010

Former Employee's Civil Rights Complaint Against City Dismissed

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Bradshaw, who is black, claimed in the lawsuit the city violated her civil rights, firing her in retaliation for an employment-discrimination claim she had [...]

October 09, 2010

American Civil Liberties Union


10/08/2010 – The Center For Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the ACLU today filed a nonviolent civil disobedience as terrorism which improperly placed . [...]

October 09, 2010

Civil Rights


Easier - Civil rights means that people have the right to be treated the same regardless of their race, gender, or religion. These rights are law in the [...]

October 09, 2010

Civil Rights | LII / Legal Information Institute


19 Aug 2010 Examples of civil rights are freedom of speech, press, and assembly; the right to vote; freedom from involuntary servitude; and the right to [...]

October 11, 2010

Civil Rights Division Home Page


The Civil Rights Division provides contact information, as well as detailed information on federally prohibited discrimination, its cases and other [...]

October 15, 2010

African American Odyssey: The Civil Rights Era (Part 1)


Success crowned these efforts: the Brown decision in 1954, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act in 1965 helped bring about the demise of [...]

October 15, 2010

Civil Rights | The White House


President Obama recognizes that our civil rights laws and principles are at the core of our nation. He has spent much of his career fighting to strengthen [...]

October 11, 2010

Involuntary Commitment & Drugging, Psychiatry, Civil Rights ...

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Be My Friend – www.myspace.com Involuntary Commitment & Drugging, Psychiatry, Civil Rights Professor John Breeding, has a Ph.D. is psychology. In this video he discusses issues about with the involuntary commitment of mental health [...]

October 09, 2010

Veterans Of Civil Rights Movement Tell Stories | University Of ...

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Historians and activists who lived through the American Civil Rights movement of the 1960s will discuss their personal stories of the era from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 5, in Ledbetter Hall B at UALR's Donaghey Student [...]

October 09, 2010

Byrd Delivers Convo On Civil Rights Pioneer

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Rudolph Byrd, a former Carleton professor and current professor of American Studies at Emory University, delivered his convocation speech entitled “Regarding James Weldon Johnson” on Oct. 1. Byrd is an acclaimed civil rights scholar, and founder of both the Alice Walker Literary Society and the James Weldon Johnson Institute at Emory University, the first institute established at Emory [...]


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