Word: douglass
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...being oppressed. For instance, one prominent civil rights advocate has noted that the choice of February, the shortest month, is indicative of a racist culture. Never mind that February was chosen by Carter G. Woodson, the founder of Black History Month, because it includes the birthdays of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln...
...their hypocrisy back in their faces. The managers, she intoned, had argued that "the entire house of civil rights might well fall" if Clinton escaped conviction. You could almost hear her muttering, "Spare me." "We've had imperfect leaders in the past," said Mills, referring to Thomas Jefferson, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., "and we'll have imperfect leaders in the future, but their imperfections did not roll back nor did they stop the march for civil rights," she said. "I'm not worried about civil rights because this President's record...
Wolfgang H. Rueckner, Daniel B. Rosenberg, Nils J. Sorensen and Douglass B. Goodale, members of the Lecture Demonstrations Services, create, design and perform science demonstrations for many science Core, physics and chemistry classes...
...just don't get it. Why would a tough-skinned career politician like Gingrich resign from a pushy job in the House of Representatives? There is something very smelly about this development. EDWIN N. DOUGLASS Albuquerque...
Walker became a central figure in black leadership and one of the first black philanthropists, donating funds to build a black YMCA in Indianapolis and restore Frederick Douglass's home in Washington, and helping lead the protest against lynching--she traveled to the White House with other leaders to present a petition to Woodrow Wilson. (He declined to see them.) In 1918 she moved into the neo-Palladian Villa Lewaro, an estate she built at Irvington-on-Hudson, N.Y., which was designed by the first registered black architect and situated near the estates of John D. Rockefeller and Jay Gould...