“‎”We need Mitt Romney to protect our human rights!”

said no gay person, person of color, trans* person, or woman ever (via spookyladyfeels)

via / org 05 Nov    47
#quote  #text  #gif  #mitt romney  #gay rights  #rights  #civil rights  #feminism  #but lots of other people have said it -_-  #in fact now that I think about it women have said this  #because obama is stalin remember  #sigh




Robert L. Carter, an Architect of School Desegregation, Dies at 94 »

The lawyers for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc. From left, Louis L. Redding, Robert L. Carter, Oliver W. Hill, Thurgood Marshall and Spottswood W. Robinson III.

(Click on link.)

03 Feb    0
#link  #article  #robert l. carter  #robert carter  #civil rights  #desegregation  #education  #schools  #nyt  #new york times  #naacp  #louis l. redding  #louis redding  #oliver hill  #oliver w. hill  #thurgood marshall  #spottswood w. robinson iii  #spottswood robinson  #judge  #federal judge  #lawyer  #segregation  #racism




Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, an Elder Statesman for Civil Rights, Dies at 89 »

The Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, a storied civil rights leader who survived beatings and bombings in Alabama a half-century ago as he fought against racial injustice alongside the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., died on Wednesday in Birmingham, Ala. He was 89. (Click on link.)

OK, so this is several months old. Still worth reading.

19 Jan    15
#link  #article  #civil rights  #fred shuttlesworth  #shuttlesworth  #bamf  #difficult  #and blind in certain ways  #but amazing  #reverend  #alabama




After September 11: Our State of Exception »

Call it, then, the state of exception: these years during which, in the name of security, some of our accustomed rights and freedoms are circumscribed or set aside, the years during which we live in a different time. This different time of ours has now extended ten years—the longest by far in American history—with little sense of an ending. Indeed, the very endlessness of this state of exception—a quality emphasized even as it was imposed—and the broad acceptance of that endlessness, the state of exception’s increasing normalization, are among its distinguishing marks.

07 Jan    10
#link  #article  #our state of exception  #nybooks  #new york review of books  #after september 11  #9/11  #september 11  #Mark Danner  #crisis government  #torture  #enhanced interrogation  #rights  #civil rights  #George W. Bush  #Dick Cheney  #Donald Rumsfeld  #america  #united states  #chilling  #important commentary




“Hallelujah, I’m a travelin’, hallelujah, ain’t it fine? Hallelujah, I’m a-traveling down freedom’s main line”
via 23 Nov    0
#freedom riders  #quote  #quotes  #freedom rides  #hallelujah  #i'm a travelin  #ain't it fine  #down freedom's main line  #integration  #civil rights




Black-and-White Struggle With a Rosy Glow »

13 Aug    0
#link  #nyt  #the new york times  #Black-and-White Struggle With a Rosy Glow  #NELSON GEORGE  #the help  #civil rights  #eyes on the prize  #malcolm x  #Mississippi burning  #panther  #the long walk home




Honoring Freedom Riders at an Old Bus Station »

06 Aug    16
#freedom rides  #freedom riders  #link  #article  #photo  #john lewis  #montgomery  #civil rights  #sing for freedom  #:)  #the smiley is a reaction to the bus station  #not what happened there