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  • July 2008

    • Ex-Senator Jesse Helms Dead at 86

      newser  |  News & Observer (Raleigh)  |  Jul 4, 08 10:44 AM CDT

      Ex-Senator Jesse Helms Dead at 86

      Jesse Helms, a polarizing figure who represented North Carolina in the US Senate for 30 years before retiring in 2003, died today in Raleigh, the News & Observer reports. He was 86. A pro-segregation TV commentator before entering national politics, the first Republican senator from North Carolina since Reconstruction opposed virtually every piece of civil rights legislation that crossed his desk. More »

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      North Carolina  • conservative  • civil rights  • Republican  • Senate Republicans  • segregation  • conservatives  • Senate GOP  • Jesse Helms

  • June 2008
  • May 2008

    • The New Segregation: This Time It's Political

      newser  |  Los Angeles Times  |  May 26, 08 9:46 AM CDT

      The New Segregation: This Time It's Political

      The good news? Apathy is on the decline. The bad news? The new political activism is tearing the country apart, writes Gregory Rodriguez in the Los Angeles Times, with political divides turning into geographic ones, too. The country is segregating itself according to politics, moving to areas full of like-minded people. In 1976, only 38% of counties saw partisan landslides of 20% or more; in 2004, 60% did. More »

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      partisanship  • political activism  • segregation  • political factions

  • March 2008

    • Huckabee: Lay Off Obama Pastor

      newser  |  ABC News  |  Mar 20, 08 8:05 AM CDT

      Huckabee: Lay Off Obama Pastor

      Barack Obama got some unexpected help yesterday from Mike Huckabee, of all people. The former candidate called Obama’s speech “historic” and said it wasn’t fair to hold candidates accountable for everything the people near them say, ABC News reports. Huckabee, once a pastor himself, said he understood how Wright could get “caught up in the emotion” of an extemporaneous sermon and warned against taking his comments out of context. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Mike Huckabee  • race  • Jeremiah Wright  • Jerry Falwell  • segregation  • pastor  • Joe Scarborough  • sermon

  • January 2008

    • A Man, Not a Soundbite

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Jan 21, 08 4:54 PM CST

      A Man, Not a Soundbite

      In the decades since his death, Martin Luther King Jr. has been transformed from a flesh-and-blood figure into a one-dimensional icon. Historians fear memory has frozen King on the Washington Mall in 1963, reducing him to a soundbite and a “symbol that people use and manipulate for their own purposes,” says one professor. The Associated Press considers King's—there's that word again—legacy. More »

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      race relations  • history  • Martin Luther King Jr.  • segregation

  • December 2007

    • Oregon Senator Raises Hackles With Lott Praise

      newser  |  The Hill  |  Dec 19, 07 7:03 PM CST

      Oregon Senator Raises Hackles With Lott Praise

      Oregon Sen. Gordon Smith is in the doghouse after defending Trent Lott’s infamous 2002 speech waxing nostalgic on Strom Thurmond’s 1948 presidential run. A key Democratic target in 2008, Smith said yesterday that Lott was “misconstrued” as segregationist when suggesting that, had there been a Thurmond administration, “we wouldn’t have had all these problems over all these years." More »

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      blogger  • Trent Lott  • segregation  • Gordon Smith  • Strom Thurmond

  • September 2007

    • Jena Braces for Thousands of Protesters

      newser  |  USA Today  |  Sep 20, 07 7:35 AM CDT

      Jena Braces for Thousands of Protesters

      Tiny Jena, LA, is bracing for the tens of thousands of activists expected to descend on the town of 3,000 today to protest the handling of six black high school students charged with attempted murder for beating a white classmate in December. Led by the Rev. Al Sharpton, protesters say the teens, who've become known as the "Jenna Six," were treated harshly after responding to racial taunting. More »

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      protests  • race  • race relations  • racism  • Louisiana  • Al Sharpton  • Jena Six  • segregation

  • August 2007

    • Oliver Hill, Civil Rights Crusader, Dies

      newser  |  Richmond Times-Dispatch  |  Aug 6, 07 3:37 AM CDT

      Oliver Hill, Civil Rights Crusader, Dies

      Oliver Hill, a Virginia civil rights crusader whose work contributed to the Brown v. Board of Education decision against school segregation, died yesterday at 100. Described as "last lion of the civil-rights movement," Hill was a survivor of D-Day's Omaha Beach landing, and close friends with Justice Thurgood Marshall, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reports. More »

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      US Supreme Court  • obituary  • race  • death  • civil rights  • school  • lawyer  • segregation  • integration

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