Word: naacp
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...will be on the bench only a few years." Typically, too, appointees are male and white. Only four of Reagan's judges are black, eleven Hispanic, and 22 female. The long-term impact of younger white male appointments is troubling to liberal activists like Elaine Jones of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. "They will just be hitting their stride in 15 years," she says. "In any question that pits the rights of the individual against the power of the state, we are going to see individual rights suffering." The President's judges are already pushing his message...
Unsurprisingly, African-American rights activists decried the film’s historical fallacy. In 1915, the NAACP issued a pamphlet calling the film “three miles of filth.” Riots erupted in Boston and Philadelphia and the film was prevented from being shown in eight states. Subsequent re-releases have been accompanied by lawsuits and protests; and in 1998, a large outcry erupted when The Birth of a Nation was named #44 in the American Film Institute’s list of the Top 100 American Films...
...appropriateness for elementary and high school curricula. Critics may no longer find it as “trashy and vicious” as the Concord Library Committee so notoriously did (and the New York Times reported) in 1885, but many still echo the concerns about racism the NAACP first presented in the 1950s—particularly with respect to Huck’s traveling companion, the runaway slave...
Street Creds: Former attorney with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund; member of the United Nations Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague; former director of Academy of Political Science; member of the Council on Foreign Relations...
...Ohio, fake memos with forged Board of Elections letterhead have been sent to some voters informing them that if they registered through Democratic and NAACP drives, they would be ineligible to vote. In South Carolina, election officials have warned voters to ignore fake letters purporting to be from the NAACP that threaten voters with arrest for outstanding parking tickets or for failing to pay child support...