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Vote God's Word Save USA — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 11:47:40 -0000

Stoking racism is harvesting bitterness to buy votes.

"For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you." It's important to remember that forgiveness scriptures like Matthew 6:14 remind us that, since God forgives us, we, too, must offer forgiveness to those who have wronged us.

I agree with the moderate President Biden and his original view on this as it rests on the sanity of Scripture.

“I do not buy the concept, popular in the ’60s, which said, ’We have suppressed the black man for 300 years and the white man is now far ahead in the race for everything our society offers. In order to even the score, we must now give the black man a head start, or even hold the white man back, to even the race.’ I don’t buy that.

“I don’t feel responsible for the sins of my father and grandfather,” he continued at the time. “I feel responsible for what the situation is today, for the sins of my own generation. And I’ll be damned if I feel responsible to pay for what happened 300 years ago.”- President Joe Biden 1975

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Corrine Venema-Tucker — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 06:41:13 -0000

Receiving so much inspiration from learning about the past. Currently studying Human Rights after being in education for nearly two decades: I wanted to thank you for time and effort in creating this forum to teach us all about what really happened so we can continue to reconcile the past and build a better future, together. Thank you. I will share the news of having found this site. Yours in education always, Corrine

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NAJ — Thu, 14 Mar 2019 11:49:55 -0000

In honor of Women's history month, we would like to shine on Fatima Cortez who was born to a multi-ethnic activist family. She understood racism at a young age when she became aware of her different skin color when she would ride the bus with her grandma. She participated and founded many activist movements that involved bringing awareness to sexual violence issues. She was also very passionate about bringing to light the discrimination embedded in voting and housing. She held many feminist ideals, such as advocating for reproduction freedom.

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Stavros Gabrielle Kanika — Thu, 14 Mar 2019 11:49:06 -0000

For women’s history month, my college class is looking at the work of women activists from your website. My group chose Miriam Cohen Glickman because we are interested in the way that she was active in the SNCC as a Jewish women. She was originally not accepted into the SNCC but due to her activism was later accepted. This shows great perseverance, dedication, and determination as an activist which is highly admirable.

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Emilia Fries — Thu, 14 Mar 2019 11:46:44 -0000

For women's history month, my college class is looking at the work of women activists from your website. My partner and I chose activist Chude Pam Parker Allen. We were so intrigued by how she was a devout christian and was willing to sacrifice her life for civil rights the way Jesus died for others. She volunteered in the Mississippi summer project and was willing to risk it all in order to one day hangout with her Black best friend in peace. Chude gave speeches and taught many workshops and seminars on racism and even women's liberation.

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JD Kempton — Thu, 14 Mar 2019 11:32:38 -0000

Franye Adams-Johnson was born in 1946 and grew up in the impoverished environment of a sharecropping family in Mississippi. Early in her life she had a sense of the injustice that she faced and began engaging in activism through the organizing of protests during her high school years. She used these developed talents to eventually become a valuable contributor to the SNCC, Black Panthers, and presently the Veterans of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement.

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Malcolm H Gissen — Mon, 24 Jul 2017 18:19:56 -0000

In 1966, I was a first year law student at the University of Wisconsin. Under the auspices of the Law Students Civil Rights Research Council, I was introduced to Denny Ray, a Cravath attorney in NYC who was going to head the Lawyers Committee for. Civil Rights Under Law's efforts in Mississippi. I drove to Jackson, MS. in early June and just outside Jackson, we received our orientation

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Maria Gitin — Sat, 06 May 2017 15:16:30 -0000

Good news out of Mississippi for all who worked so hard in that stubbornly segregated state. http://inthesetimes.com/art...

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Bruce Hartford — Fri, 21 Oct 2016 10:36:20 -0000

My guess, is that anyone could sign a document as a "witness" at any time anywhere. The question would be whether a white judge would recognize the validity of that witnessing. My guess, and it's just a guess, is that it would vary from place to place, what the document was, and who all were involved. A document between two Blacks trying to better themselves and their community might be rejected on whatever technicality could be devised. A document benefitting a white landowner would most likely be honored, if the judge looked favorable on the Blacks involved it might go one way, if he considered them "uppity" it might go another way, and so on.

You might want to submit your question to the SNCC email list at https://lists.virginia.edu/...

Bruce

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Paul — Fri, 21 Oct 2016 07:06:39 -0000

I am in the process of writing a book which touches on discrimination in the south from the 1930's through to present day. Could anybody tell me if an person of African American origin could witness a legal document in the 1940's in Mississippi?

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Churchlady320 — Sun, 25 Sep 2016 19:07:23 -0000

I know you and you know me, but I never knew the depth of your story. Wonderful to read this little bit.

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Kendall Barclay — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 07:54:37 -0000

I am writing my senior thesis over SNCC and King's relationship during Selma. If any would be willing to answer some questions for me to add insider views please contact me. kendalljaneabarclay@gmail.com

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Angela Khristin Brown — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 13:25:52 -0000

Call to Mercy, By Angela Brown

Love
is not visible to the human eye
But the power of love is touched by the
heart
Nations have fought wars and declared peace
By faith, we are
connected
No matter what walk of life
The poor, the ill, the
disenfranchised
We serve within our hearts with conviction
The fate of our
economy,
Our state of health,
The protection of the environment we live
in
We open our hearts to God’s invitation to love freely
For the victims
of poverty,
The immigrants of war,
To those imprisoned facing death,

Rich
in faith and free from sin
The Spirit lives
within our hearts

With
God’s call to mercy

Right to Vote, by Angela Brown

The right to vote

Granted me the right to petition

It gave me a voice

To making an important decision

Voting granted me the right to decide

The best man for the position

To govern the laws rules removed in forition

Voting is a powerful voice that carries

That appoints who supports the cause

That matter most in my community

I respect that many have died

So I can exercise the right to vote

And in the view of eyes that watch

And try to invoke the lessons taught

By history of a painful past

My race had endured the hateful mass

Of regret in that we must not forget

With the right to vote

I must not neglect the right petition

The laws that govern us

Needs to be addressed

March on
Selma, by Angela Khristin Brown

It was
the bloodiest day in history

The
winter's cold was as hot as the summer's heat.

And the
deadliest mark in American history was foretold

It is
from fear, that must have quenched God's
thirst

That
answered their call to freedom.

No hate
nor pain could deter their fate

For they
walked for freedom.

They
were descendants of bandage

And marterers for faith

Answering
their ancestor’s cry for mercy.

Racism
pierced the dark corners of their mind,

‘Will
the right to have democracy be protected?’

And so
they marched in the name of God's glory

To have
their voices heard.

Virtue
was the cause that could not wait

For
discrimination is an extension of division.

It is a
matter of time before chaos breaks

And the
balance of interest become the voice of power.

Love is
what surrenders in time

And
forgiveness is with the heart of the people.

And so
their march had cost many lives

But it
is from their faith that redefined history.

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MARIA GITIN — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 18:05:56 -0000

Congratulations Carol Ruth Silver for being selected to present at LITQUAKE, the “Anti-Memoir Panel” will present 5 recently published books, during the largest and oldest Book Festival in Northern California: LITQUAKE!

Carol Ruth Silver and Freedom Rider Diary: Smuggled Notes from Parchman Prison

When: 7:00 PM Monday, 12th October, 2015
Where: SF Center for the Book, 375 Rhode Island St, San Francisco 94103
(b/w 16th & 17th St in the Potrero district of SF)
More Info: (415) 861-5802
Reserve tickets (only 5 bucks):

http://www.litquake.org/eve...

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Mario Marcel Salas — Sun, 16 Aug 2015 00:08:03 -0000

I will be speaking tomorrow, or maybe today depending on when you read this,
Sunday August 16th live remote from the Caribbean via VIBE RADIO. Please tune in VIBE RADIO DOMINICA for a round table discussion on Emancipation.....live from the Caribbean Island of Dominica at 12 noon Central time tomorrow

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Angela Brown — Mon, 20 Jul 2015 15:51:50 -0000

Four Colored Girls of Montgomery church/You whisper before dawn/The silence of visible light/Singing God's hymn infinitely in time./Your words are a reflection of mourning/Not knowing foreshadowing history/We share your agony/We share your pain/A mirror image of your journey./Nothing is eternal/Only decades stand amongst our wound./We stand, we bond, we pledge words of hope/ in your memory/Every second, every minuet, every hour in your memory/Each moment underlies our journey toward serenity and peace and freedom.

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Maria Gitin — Mon, 01 Jun 2015 18:39:02 -0000

Timothy Jenkins prophetic letter, "Dear SNCC People", accurately forecast how much we progressives-radicals lost by refusing to serve in or continue to work with government in the 1960's. A must read: http://www.crmvet.org/docs/...

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Maria Gitin — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 13:33:14 -0000

Everyone is invited to an exciting event featuring Bruce Hartford, Wazir Peacock, Charles Bonner and myself next Saturday at the Museum of the African Diaspora. It will be a program of stories, music and slides in and about Selma. Please invite your friends and family. More information on the speakers and details at my blog: https://thislittlelight1965...

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Dennis Roberts — Sun, 01 Mar 2015 19:42:26 -0000

I worked with C. B. King in Albany, first in the summer of 1963 as a law student and then returned in the fall of 1964 as a lawyer. My wife, Wendy Mann (Roberts) and I stayed there another two plus years when she got a scholarship to Bank Street College in NYC and I went to work as the first staff employee of the Center for Constitutional Rights.

When I worked with C. B. King we had cause to go into Terrell County where W. I. Geer was Judge of the Pataua (GA) Judicial Circuit including Terrell, Randolph, Lee and other counties to the north and west of Albany. He ran for re-election in either 63 or 64-66 and his poster read: "W. I (don't want the nigger vote) Geer."

I'd love to purchase one to donate to the Albany Civil Rights Institute. Any suggestions?

Also on a different topic On March 22 there will be a memorial service for John Perdew who worked with SNCC starting in the summer of 1963 and he never left Georgia. He was one of the Americus Four facing the death penalty for ":insurrection" ( John Perdew, Don Harris, Ralph Allen and Zev Aelony). Anyone interested in attending should contact me. 510 384 6363
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Maria Gitin — Sat, 07 Feb 2015 13:17:06 -0000

"10 Things You Should Know About Selma Before You See the Film"
Excellent article by Emilye Crosby from the Zinn Education Project http://www.huffingtonpost.c...

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Maria Gitin — Tue, 02 Sep 2014 13:36:41 -0000

Congratulations to civil rights leader Bernard Lafayette recipient of the 2014 Lillian Smith Book Award for his terrific book, “In Peace and Freedom; My Journey in Selma.” http://www.amazon.com/In-Pe...

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Marcy — Wed, 13 Aug 2014 00:22:02 -0000

Thank you so much for getting back to me. I actually tried to email you after reading your post about Uncle Francis (I did a Google search), but the email bounced. I was going to try snail mail to one of your business addresses, but didn't get around to it. I am grateful that you checked this website and responded to my post. I fully understand deadlines and can wait to communicate with you after things calmed down. Please let me know what would be a good time. Take care and talk to you soon. Marcy

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Elaine DeLott Baker — Sat, 09 Aug 2014 21:22:26 -0000

Hi Marcy,

So nice to hear from you. Francis was not a sentimental person, but he had a deep connection to his family history, despite his unconventional life. Francis was a close friend of myself and my husband. He lived with us, off and on, through the post-Mississippi decades. I recently found several tapes that he made at a "family reunion", probably in the 80's. With old tapes, it's better not to play them, but i plan to transfer them to a CD and send them to his family. Feel free to e-mail me so I can share my recollections of your uncle with you. I'm a little stressed by a deadline right now, but look forward to talking to you more in the not too distant future. Elaine DeLott Baker

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Maria Gitin — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 15:58:04 -0000

Many years ago, I saw a therapist who used EMDR and it was a life-saver. I highly recommend this technique.

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Maria Gitin — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 15:55:58 -0000

Just started reading the
first of the transcripts of our Oakland 50th Reunion and am in awe of my sister
and brother vets, all you did and continue to do. Really it is an ongoing
privilege to be part of the Beloved Community. Cathy Cade did a great job of
facilitating. You guys are great! http://www.crmvet.org/disc/...