Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though eight members of the Ku Klux Klan served prison sentences on federal charges of conspiring to deny the civil rights of Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner, no state charges were ever filed against the killers of the three civil rights workers, who were slain near Philadelphia, Miss., during the Freedom Summer of 1964. That may now change. Two weeks ago, Mississippi Attorney General Mike Moore announced that he is considering reopening the case...
...then journeyed to Washington for another commemoration and a White House meeting with President Bush, who described the young men as heroes. But when the families implored Bush to promise that he would support attempts to reverse a recent Supreme Court ruling widely considered to be a setback for civil rights, the President declined...
...view of their cold reception by the Supreme Court, civil rights advocates are increasingly looking to the Democratic-controlled Congress for legislative remedies. Indeed, many of the Justices' rulings involve interpretations of federal statutes that could be easily overturned by passing new laws. "Hopefully, Congress will have the political will to do exactly that," says Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe. "The ball is back in Congress's court...
...Chipping away at the civil rights edifice...
...confidence-building measures the Shamir government claims to favor," says Hillel Bardin, 53, a veteran of the American civil rights movement. He was jailed for two weeks last year after trying to arrange a dialogue with Palestinians while on reserve army duty in the West Bank town of Ramallah. "You'd think the authorities would be delighted...