Word: equality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bill. "To be able to study movies in college, it was any movie buff's dream. It was cool too, like studying to be an astronaut. Martin Scorsese was my first teacher. He was like a mad scientist, with hair down to here. He was someone on an equal wave of nuttiness. And he helped channel the rage in me." Stone made a short film for Scorsese's class called Last Year in Viet Nam, about a vet wandering the New York streets; in another, Michael and Marie, Oliver's father played the victim. "Oliver was alienated, sarcastic and brooding...
Writing the main opinion, Justice Thurgood Marshall concluded that the California law did not violate the federal law or discriminate against men, as Cal Fed claimed. Rather it "promotes equal employment opportunity" by allowing "women, as well as men, to have families without losing their jobs." The Justice noted that the California statute "does not compel employers to treat pregnant workers better than other disabled employees; it merely establishes benefits that employers must, at a minimum, provide to pregnant workers. Employers are free to give comparable benefits to other disabled employees...
...treatment of the milestones of the era but for its keen eye on less noted events. A tense encounter between a band of demonstrators and a deputy sheriff on the streets of Selma, for example, turns into an impromptu "debate" between people from different planets: "Do you believe in equal justice?" "I don't believe in equal nothin'!" The narration by Julian Bond is admirably restrained, and - those interviewed (from such movement leaders as John Lewis and Stokely Carmichael to old foes like Alabama Sheriff Jim Clark) look back without sounding either self-righteous or defensive. Except for its evocative...
...IMPEDIMENTS to true equality remain. This aspect of King's legacy must also be recalled. We cannot, as middle class Black conservatives propose, turn our backs to the Black poor by abandoning renewed calls for civil rights and equal opportunity. In a nation where the rate of Black unemployment is three times that of whites and where the federal government advocates retrenchment in welfare and affirmative action programs, it is to King's ideas that we must return...
...Poor People's Campaign was precisely the type of coalition that could pressure federal, state, and local governments to act. His death spelled doom for that crusade, yet his idea should carry on, reminding us all that economic and educational opportunity are not equal for all Americans, but that they should...