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...WorldTeach, for instance, is a Harvard-based NGO of high repute that sends student teachers to developing nations. Many other similar programs have arisen, especially in Asia where the demand for English is particularly high. Such international opportunities, however, fail to consider the broader implications of global language politics. Selma Sonntag articulates the complexities of language policy, describing the global hegemony and “stampede towards English” around the world—to which TESOL programs contribute—which to some degree undermines the agency of cultural and linguistic minorities. If the goal of our academic...
...ugly face of violent racism in the Jim Crow South. With his billy club, cattle prod and NEVER button--a reference to his view on black-voter registration--the beefy, sadistic former Alabama sheriff Jim Clark ironically galvanized the civil rights movement. After a stunning televised 1965 confrontation in Selma in which Clark joined in beating and teargassing peaceful protesters, public opinion shifted. "Bloody Sunday," which Lyndon Johnson called "an American tragedy," is widely believed to have expedited the President's signing of the Voting Rights Act in August 1965. Clark...
...Baptist Church in Lynchburg after graduating from a Missouri Bible college. A year later, the church's membership had grown from 35 to nearly 1000. Like many of his denomination, he railed against premarital sex, adultery and drinking - and in 1965, just a few weeks after Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama, Falwell delivered a sermon that urged against any formal mixture of politics and faith: "Believing the Bible as I do, I would find it impossible to stop preaching the pure saving gospel of Jesus Christ and begin doing anything else - including the fighting of communism, or participating...
...shooting of Jackson inspired the "Bloody Sunday" protest at Selma on March 7, 1965, which set the stage for the Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march later that month...
...killing of Jimmie Lee Jackson that provoked the march from Selma to Montgomery. It was his death and his blood that gave us the Voting Rights Act of 1965," Lewis said in a statement. "This indictment will lead to closure. It will lead to healing. It will lead to reconciliation...