Article: Activist Mabel Evans Cason dies.(NEWS)(Obituary)

Article: Mabel Evans Cason, civil rights ...
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  July 9, 2004 ;     331 words ... ... Cohen; Staff Writer Funeral services for Mabel Evans Cason, a longtime civil rights activist, will be held at 11 a.m. today at ... Cathedral, 519 Oak Grove St., Minneapolis. Evans Cason was appointed to the state Board of Education ...

Article: Civil Rights Act of 1957
Major Acts of Congress;      700+ words ...Civil Rights Act of 1957 Gilbert Paul Carrasco The Civil Rights Act of 1957 (CRA) (P.L. 85-315, 71 Stat. 634) began a new era in civil rights legislation and enforcement after more than three-quarters of a century of congressional inaction ...

Article: The Civil Rights Identity of Bayard Rustin
Texas Law Review;  April 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... Introduction Boyard Rustin was the consummate civil rights strategist and humanitarian.1 Indeed ... integrate nonviolent direct action into the civil rights movement, and if he were remembered ... the quintessential outsider in black civil rights circles for much of his life.8 For ...

Transcript: CIVIL RIGHTS ACT ANNIVERSARY:THEODORE SHAW
Congressional Testimony;  September 5, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Defense Fund is the nation's oldest civil rights law firm. We have served as legal counsel ... of the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division because historically it has ... of Education, as part of the first civil rights law since Reconstruction. Its courageous ...

Article: Civil Rights Act of 1964
Dictionary of American History;      700+ words ...CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964 CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964. Congressional concern for civil rights diminished with the end of Reconstruction and the Supreme Court's 1883 decision in the Civil Rights Cases holding the Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional ...

Transcript: CIVIL RIGHTS DIVISION OVERSIGHT:CHARLES CANADY
Congressional Testimony;  February 25, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... Charles T. Canady Oversight Hearing on the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of ... of the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division. The Civil Rights Division was founded over 40 years ago to do ...

Article: civil rights
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      700+ words ...civil rights rights that a nation's inhabitants enjoy ... citizen, and unlike "natural rights," civil rights have a legal as well as a philosophical basis. In the United States civil rights are usually thought of in terms of the specific ...