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civil rights stories: 85 news summaries

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Movie Critic
Joel Siegel
Dead at 63

GMA's long-time reviewer succumbs
to colon cancer

Jun 30, 07 10:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - Joel Siegel, the veteran film critic for Good Morning America known for concision and wit, died yesterday after a long battle with colon cancer. Siegel's good humor and enthusiasm for movies didn't stop him from delivering a well-aimed pan.  "No one had more fun writing about a bad... More »

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film • obituary • Joel Siegel • colon cancer • civil rights • critic • Good Morning America • Robert F. Kennedy • movies

Ex-Klansman Guilty in '64 Teen Murders

Convicted of kidnapping, 71-year-old faces life in prison

Jun 15, 07 7:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - A former Klansman was convicted yesterday of conspiracy and kidnapping in the 1964 murder of two black teenagers. The prosecution's star witness was a Klan member who said he and James Ford Seale stuffed the 19-year-olds into their trunk and drowned them in the Mississippi River. The jury deliberated for... More »

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kidnapping • James Ford Seale • Ku Klux Klan • Charles Eddie Moore • Henry Hezekiah Dee • conspiracy • KKK • civil rights

High Court Curbs Pay
Bias Suits

Ginsburg dissents on decision limiting  charges to 180 days

May 30, 07 4:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Supreme Court severely limited the right of women to sue employers over pay discrimination in a stormy 5-4 decision yesterday. A lone woman employee at a tire factory sued because she was paid less than male coworkers over her long career; the court held that such charges must be... More »

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women • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • women's rights • discrimination • Civil Rights Act • civil rights • US Supreme Court

Prosecutors Reopen Civil Rights Case

Alabama indicts ex-state trooper
in 1965 murder

May 11, 07 4:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - Alabama prosecutors have reopened a decades-old murder case that helped spark the seminal Selma-to-Montgomery civil rights march and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. James Bonard Fowler, 73, a former state trooper, turned himself in yesterday after being indicted the 1965 murder of Jimmie Lee Jackson, whom prosecutors say he... More »

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Jimmie Lee Jackson • James Bonard Fowler • Alabama • Selma to Montgomery • Voting Rights Act • civil rights

Imus Affair Could Cost Obama

Stance on trash-talk seen as a litmus test for black community

Apr 11, 07 10:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Don Imus meltdown could have fallout for Barack Obama, as critics note that he kept his mouth shut for five days—until after the suspension—before condemning the shock jock's crude racial jokes. The candidate's caution is signaling to some black leaders that he isn't going to take a... More »

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Barack Obama • presidential campaign • Don Imus • civil rights • Election 2008

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