[George Floyd\Oakland Institute]
Oakland Institute: “Today millions of Americans are rising up, collectively expressing outrage, and demanding an end to racism and violence against Black and Brown communities.”
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Civil Rights Movement
NAACP HONORS LEGACY OF CIVIL RIGHTS ICON REV. JOSEPH LOWERY
[NAACP\Rev. Joseph Lowery]
NAACP CEO Johnson: “We can think of no better way of celebrating his legacy than continuing to fight and make sure we—as Black people—are counted. On behalf of the NAACP, our prayers and support go out to his family in this difficult time.”
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BAYARD RUSTIN SPEECH: “NEGRO REVOLUTION IN 1965”
[Celebrating Black History Month\Bayard Rustin]
“The Negro movement is, in fact, revolutionary, in not its objective but its method and its demand. And the tragedy of the society, today, is that it is only the Negroes who are in social movement.”
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MEDGAR EVERS: “WHAT THEN DOES THE NEGRO WANT?”
[Celebrating Black History Month\Medgar Evers]
Medgar Evers: “The Negro has been here in America since 1619, a total of 344 years. He is not going anywhere else; this country is his home.”
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CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS CELEBRATES FORMER CONGRESSMAN JOHN CONYERS THE “CONSCIENCE OF THE CONGRESS”
[Congressional Black Caucus Commemorates John Conyers]
“Just four days after the assassination of Dr. King, Congressman Conyers introduced a bill to create a federal holiday in his honor and reintroduced the bill every year for 15 years until it was signed into law. Mr. Conyers continued his pursuit of voting rights in Congress as a lead co-sponsor of the Voting Rights Act of 1965… Mr. Conyers also championed the issue of reparations by introducing a bill to establish a commission to study the issue of slavery and race relations in America, which he fought for consideration every year.”
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FANNIE LOU HAMER’S SPEECH AT 1964 DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION: BLACKS FACE POLICE VIOLENCE TRYING TO VOTE
[Remembering Fannie Lou Hamer]
Fannie Lou Hamer, in 1964: “I question America. Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where we have to sleep with our telephones off the hooks because our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human beings, in America?”
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