By David Barton Smith (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) July 1, 2016 marks the 50th Anniversary of Medicare’s inauguration. After Lyndon Johnson’s landslide victory in 1964, the passage of the Medicare Act in 1965 surprised no one. The surprise, concealed and never fully acknowledged, came with its implementation. Rather than the typical pattern, the … [Read more...] about “Stealth Capture: The Civil Rights Movement and the Implementation of Medicare” by David Barton Smith (April-June 2016 Issue)
Civil Rights History
“Neighborhood Schools – an Etymology” by Michael Hilton (November-December 2015 Issue)
By Michael Hilton (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) The term “neighborhood schools” has a long history in struggles over school integration, often used as a rallying cry by enclaves of well-resourced, usually white citizens to protect the uniform character of their schools and combat desegregation (Hannah-Jones, 2014; Williams, 2015). Following the 1954 Brown … [Read more...] about “Neighborhood Schools – an Etymology” by Michael Hilton (November-December 2015 Issue)
“The Making of Ferguson” by Richard Rothstein (November-December 2014 P&R Issue)
By Richard Rothstein (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) It is a familiar story. Police viciously assault or kill an unarmed African American man or boy. The black community rises up in protest, often in violent riots. Among many others, it is a 1919 story (Chicago), a 1943 story (Detroit, Harlem), a 1967 story (Newark and over a hundred more), a 1992 story (Los … [Read more...] about “The Making of Ferguson” by Richard Rothstein (November-December 2014 P&R Issue)
“Count Them One by One: Black Mississippians Fighting for the Right to Vote” by Gordon A. Martin, Jr. (January-February 2012 P&R Issue)
By Gordon A. Martin, Jr. (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Count Them One by One: Black Mississippians Fighting for the Right to Vote In 1962 in Forrest County, Mississippi, only 12 of the 7,500 adult black citizens were permitted to register to vote. That year, I made my first trip to the Deep South as one of the trial lawyers of Robert Kennedy’s … [Read more...] about “Count Them One by One: Black Mississippians Fighting for the Right to Vote” by Gordon A. Martin, Jr. (January-February 2012 P&R Issue)
“Building a National Museum” by Lonnie G Bunch, III (November-December 2011 P&R Issue)
By Lonnie G Bunch, III (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Beginnings When construction starts on the new National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Fall of 2012, it will signal a beginning for some. For those of us who have been involved with the Museum’s development, however, the groundbreaking will be more like rounding the … [Read more...] about “Building a National Museum” by Lonnie G Bunch, III (November-December 2011 P&R Issue)
