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Virginia, North Carolina, Florida and Alabama have already issued apologies. The South notoriously enacted a racist, discriminatory "grandfather clause" defined in Webster s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary as "a provision in several Southern state constitutions designed to enfranchise poor whites and disfranchise Negroes by waiving high voting requirements for descendants of men voting before 1867." The Concise Columbia Encyclopedia says that "since African Americans had not yet been enfranchised on [January 1, 18671, the provision effectively barred them from the polls while granting voting rights to poor and illiterate whites." Naturally, for the "fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality and inhumanity of slavery and [Jim Crow]" and the post-slavery "grandfather clause." reparations ...
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... people, just as the poll tax and grandfather clause in the Jim Crow South were discriminatory t...
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... for interpreting the Equal Protection Clause to enter into dialogue with those who do. . Critic...Citing the long history of Jim Crow, Justice Kennedy rejects colorblindness as a worka...I never had anyone that was a grandfather or uncle or anybody. I grew up in the city of New ...
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You have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks. The key is to devise a system that recognizes this all while not appearing to." - Richard Nixon as quoted by H.R. Haldeman, supporting a get-tough-on drugs strategy "They give black people time like it's lunch down there. You go down there looking for justice, that's what you find: just us." - Richard Pryor
...So were the grandfather clause and other Jim Crow laws whose intention and...
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... to implement, the Equal Protection Clause requires only that the classification drawn by the... that other people can live under such `crowded' conditions when mentally retarded persons cannot....The regulation itself contains no grandfather clause, see App. 78-81, and the District Court mad...
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You have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks. The key is to devise a system that recognizes this all while not appearing to." Richard Nixon As quoted by H.R. Haldeman, supporting a get-tough-on-drugs strategy
...In "The New Jim Crow," Alexander goes a provocative step further. She c...So were the grandfather clause and other Jim Crow laws whose intention and...
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You have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks. The key is to devise a system that recognizes this all while not appearing to." ? Richard Nixon as quoted by H.R. Haldeman, supporting a get-tough-on drugs strategy. "They give black people time like it's lunch down there. You go down there looking for justice, that's what you find: just us." ? Richard Pryor.
...In "The New Jim Crow," Alexander goes a provocative step further. She c...So were the grandfather clause and other Jim Crow laws whose intention and...
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We respect Mr. [Booker T. Washington]'s devotion to the educational interests of his race; we admire his genius in rearing such a beacon light as Tuskegee, in the dismal swamp of ignorance and degradation, the great black belt," [Edwin Bush Jourdain] wrote one of Washington's confidantes on Aug. 19, 1902. "But we cannot follow his lead when he counsels 'nolo contendere' in the matter of manhood and citizenship rights. We doubt not his sincerity in the belief that he 'stoops to conquer' but we don't admire, agree with or respect his position of passive surrender of all rights in order to win them. On an increasing basis, everyday working-class blacks attended mass meetings in black churches, black women feverishly mobilized their own for the right to vote and newspaper journalists sing...
... such as "separate but equal" or "Jim Crow.". But it was clear where Jourdain stood on the eq... and humiliating proscriptions as 'grandfather' clause suffrage provisions, and 'jim crow' car la...
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The need for "Critical Thinking, Legal Reasoning and Systems Analysis" was demonstrated in "The Great Debaters" and the current presidential debates in the United States. It should be required of all Black leaders. Malcolm X perfected critical thinking through self-study in prison. Critical thinking advances a people. Blacks miss Marcus Garvey, Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, Dr. Martin L. King, Jr. Cong. Adam clayton Powell, [John F. Kennedy, Jr.] et. al. April 19-20-Overnight bus trip to Baltimore, Md., and Washington, D.C., with a tony of the Reginald Lewis Museum in Baltimore and an "Egypt on the Potomac" and Civil War Memorial tours in Washington, D.C., conducted by Tony Browder, author of "Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization. see: www.reinstatealton-maddox.net for "America: Lov...
...Ferguson in 1896, Jim Crow would permeate Congress. Louisiana had previously drafted a grandfather clause in 1891. It would become a pattern for the ...
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If success is a journey, did Charles Hamilton Houston's battle for racial equality actually begin in 1880s Evansville when his father helped the wife of a well-known Evansville attorney hitch her horse to a carriage? Houston, who lived from 1895 to 1950, was the brilliant thinker and attorney who crafted the strategy that ended legalized segregation in the United States.
..."The Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment furnishes the key to future ...Some point to his grandfather, Thomas Jefferson (T.J.) Hunn, born to slave paren...
