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...civil rights in Birmingham during the early '60s, the Alabama city answered with police dogs and fire hoses. A decade later, blacks sued to integrate the same Birmingham police and fire departments that had forcibly put them down. After a drawn-out legal struggle, the city signed a consent decree in 1981, agreeing to hire minorities and women in about the same proportion as workers in the city's private sector: between 33% and 50% for blacks, and 15% and 30% for women. The U.S. Justice Department backed the lawsuit and helped draft the eventual agreement. At that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Changing Sides | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

...Court later noted, Congress showed "the most anxious desire to conciliate the Indian nations." The famous Northwest Ordinance, which the first Congress ratified in 1789, stipulated that "The utmost good faith shall always be observed towards Indians; their land and property shall never be taken from them without their consent." But with the ascendance of Andrew Jackson the federal government abandoned all pretense of concern for Indian rights. In place of conciliation Jackson and his successors pursued a policy of removal and relocation, forcibly transfering eastern tribes to territories in the west. There followed a dismal procession of measures designed...

Author: By Richard J. Margolis, | Title: Indian Resiliency | 3/17/1984 | See Source »

...When consent isn't easy to prove, they try to do it through degradation and defilement of the woman's character, trying to prove she deserved' it," Bennett said...

Author: By Lucy I. Armstrong, | Title: Police Testimony Hurts Prosecution In Sixth Day of Big Dan's Rape Trial | 3/6/1984 | See Source »

Arthur Goldberg, owner of Yellow Cabs, must get commission consent before he can sell his medallions to Wilfred C. Suozzo, the proprietor of Ambassador Brattle Cabs...

Author: By Thomas J. Winslow, | Title: Proposed Medallion Sale Angers City Cab Drivers | 2/21/1984 | See Source »

...that Blacks and whites serving together would reduce our defense capability. Blacks as a group were told to put the interests of the nation before their own claims to full citizenship. Eventually these arguments were rejected; it's about time people, including Harvard administrators and faculty, stop their tacit consent of anti-gay bigotry and discrimination...

Author: By Lesbian STUDENTS Association, Jake Stevens, and Chairperson OF The gay, S | Title: ANTI-ROTC | 2/13/1984 | See Source »

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