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Tag Archives: KKK
Derrick Albert Bell Jr. — The Godfather of Critical Race Theory
Derrick Albert Bell Jr. should be as well-known as Thurgood Marshall. He was a lawyer, civil rights activist, and professor. In 1971, he became the first tenured Black professor of Law at Harvard Law School. From his reputation alone, Professor … Continue reading
On this day in American history, August 16, 2006 — Florida Attorney General Names Suspects in 55-Year-Old Civil Rights Murders
On the evening of December 25, 1951, a bomb exploded at the Florida home of Harry and Harriette Moore, killing the couple on their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. Harry Moore’s mother and the couple’s daughter were asleep in adjoining rooms but … Continue reading
On this day in American history, August 4, 1964 — Bodies of Murdered Civil Rights Workers Found in Mississippi
In 1964, Michael Schwerner, a white New Yorker working with the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), traveled to Mississippi to organize black citizens to vote. Schwerner worked extensively with James Chaney, a black CORE member from Meridian, Mississippi. The activist … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Andrew Goodman, Congress of Racial Equality, Equal Justice Initiative, James Chaney, KKK, Longdale Mississippi, Michael Schwerner, Mississippi Burning, Mt. Zion Methodist Church, Neshoba County Deputy Sheriff Cecil Price, Philadelphia Mississippi, racial inequality
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Prison Walls v. Love — Review of “Memoirs of a Prison Lawyer/Prison Wife,” by Claudette Spencer-Nurse
Memoirs of a Prison Lawyer/Prison Wife, by Claudette Spencer-Nurse, is a love story. It is an improbable love story. It is a love story that has defied the odds. It is a love story for the ages. It is a … Continue reading
Posted in Amadou Diallo, Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass, crime, Family, Justice Chronicles, Life Sentences, Parole, parole board, police involved shooting, police-involved killing, race, Reentry, Relationships, remorse
Tagged Attica, Attica Correctional Facility, Beauty and the Beast, BlackLivesMatter, Claudette Spencer Nurse, Coalition for Parole Restoration (CPR), CPR, divorce, Elmira, Elmira Correctional Facility, Elmira Reformatory, Ernest Nurse, KKK, Ku Klux Klan, Legal Aid Society of New York, life sentence, love, love at first sight, Memoirs of a Prison Lawyer/Prison Wife, prison marriage, Prisoners' Rights Project, Richard Langone, Santiago v. Miles, Temple Law School
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On this day in history, May 20, 1961 — Mob Attacks Freedom Riders in Montgomery, Alabama
On May 16, 1961, mob violence in Birmingham, Alabama, threatened to prematurely end the Freedom Ride campaign organized by the Congress on Racial Equality. The Nashville Student Movement, an interracial group of twenty-two college students studying in Tennessee, volunteered to … Continue reading
Posted in Lest We Forget, race
Tagged Alabama Governor John Patterson, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, Birmingham Alabama, Congress on Racial Equality, Equal Justice Initiative, John Lewis, John Seigenthaler, KKK, Ku Klux Klan, Montgomery Alabama, Montgomery Public Safety Commissioner L.B. Sullivan, Nashville Student Movement, Police Commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor, white mob violence
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May 8, 2009 — Klansmen Burn Cross in African American Neighborhood in Alabama
On May 8, 2009, Steven Joshua Dinkle, the former “Exalted Cyclops” of the Ozark, Alabama chapter of the International Keystone Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), and one of his KKK recruits, Thomas Windell Smith, burned a cross in … Continue reading
This day in history — April 27, 2015 — States Continue to Celebrate Confederate Memorial Day
In 2015, several Southern states continued to celebrate Confederate Memorial Day in memory of the surrender of Confederate General Joseph Johnston and his army on April 26, 1865. In Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia, the last Monday of the month is … Continue reading
Posted in Justice Chronicles, Lest We Forget, race, Slavery, Uncategorized
Tagged Caroline E. Janney, Civil War, Confederate General Joseph Johnston, Confederate General Robert E Lee, Confederate Memorial Day, Confederate President Jefferson Davis, Constitution of the Confederate States, Erle Banks, KKK, racism, Slavery, United Dixie White Knights
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PROSECUTORS, POLICE-INVOLVED SHOOTINGS, THE CONSTITUTION, THE KKK, POSSES, AND THE RULE OF LAW
I’ve been thinking about when state prosecutors fail to do their jobs in police-involved killings of unarmed individuals, that is, fail to get indictments – though we all know, those of us who have studied the criminal criminal justice system, … Continue reading
Posted in crime, Justice Chronicles, Martin Luther King, Michael Brown, MIssouri, Murder, NYPD, police involved shooting, police-involved killing, Politics, Slavery, Uncategorized, Urban Impact
Tagged 1955 Mississippi, a prosecutor can get a ham sandwich indicted, Eric Garner, Ferguson Missouri, FUgitive Slave Act of 1793, Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, Great Society, Hayes-Tilden Compromise, KKK, law and order, Lyndon Johnson, Michael Brown, NYC, NYPD, posses, prosecutors, richard nixon, rule of law, runaway slaves, Slavery, Sol Wachtler, Staten Island, The Compromise of 1850, U.S. Constitution
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