By Tomiko Brown-Nagin (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Many of those who profess to want change “don’t care nothing about poor people…If they had poor people at heart, they could make it better.” Ethel Mae Mathews, president of the Atlanta chapter of the National Welfare Rights Organization, made this statement in 2000, after decades of community-based … [Read more...] about “Local People as Law Shapers: Lessons from Atlanta’s Civil Rights Movement” by Tomiko Brown-Nagin (May-June 2011 P&R Issue)
Civil Rights History
“Title VI: In the Beginning” by Bill Taylor (September-October 2010 P&R issue)
By Bill Taylor (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) We are pleased to print this excerpt of our late colleague Bill Taylor’s engaging 2004 memoir, The Passion of My Times: An Advocate’s Fifty-Year Journey in the Civil Rights Movement, which gives a fascinating inside-the-Beltway side of an important American story that started in the streets and churches of the … [Read more...] about “Title VI: In the Beginning” by Bill Taylor (September-October 2010 P&R issue)
“Separate Does Not Equal Equal: Mexican Americans Before Brown v. Board” by Philippa Strum (September-October 2010 P&R Issue)
By Philippa Strum (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) It was September 1943, more than a decade before Brown v. Board of Education was decided by the Supreme Court, when Soledad Vidaurri walked up to a schoolhouse door with five little children in her wake. American soldiers were still fighting overseas—almost two more years of battles lay ahead before World … [Read more...] about “Separate Does Not Equal Equal: Mexican Americans Before Brown v. Board” by Philippa Strum (September-October 2010 P&R Issue)
“SNCC—the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee—Gathers 50 Years After It Started: A Report on the Reunion” by Mike Miller (July-August 2010 P&R Issue)
By Mike Miller (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Held April 15-18, 2010, at Shaw University, the nation’s oldest historically Black institution of higher education, SNCC’s 50th Anniversary Reunion Program notes on its cover page, “This conference was planned in strict accordance with SNCC’s principles of decision-making. Therefore, we don’t really know … [Read more...] about “SNCC—the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee—Gathers 50 Years After It Started: A Report on the Reunion” by Mike Miller (July-August 2010 P&R Issue)
“Transportation and Civil Rights” by Thomas W. Sanchez & Marc Brennan (July-August 2010 P&R Issue)
By Thomas W. Sanchez & Marc Brenman (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) This article is the authors’ updated version of their Introduction to their 2007 book The Right to Transportation: Moving to Equity. We then asked several transportation-knowledgeable commentators to respond—that Forum appears directly following the article — CH Transportation is … [Read more...] about “Transportation and Civil Rights” by Thomas W. Sanchez & Marc Brennan (July-August 2010 P&R Issue)
