By Bryan Greene (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) I was born in St Albans, Queens, in 1968, a few months after the passage of the federal Fair Housing Act. The Fair Housing Act would have opened up this neighborhood to my parents had they encountered resistance when they moved there the year before. Indeed, when my parents had inquired about houses for sale in … [Read more...] about “This Green and Pleasant Land” by Bryan Greene (January-March 2017 P&R Issue)
Civil Rights History
Letter to Mayor of Houston Finding Noncompliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (January 2017)
“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)
50th Anniversary Commemoration of the March on Washington
This summer, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change (King Center), the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), the National Action Network (NAN), and other major civil rights groups will join forces to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington (August 28, 1963). The official celebration begins on Saturday, August 24th with a … [Read more...] about 50th Anniversary Commemoration of the March on Washington
