Tag Archive | "Civil Rights Movement"
Subversive Historian – 03/30/10
{Today marks the 140th anniversary of the 15th amendment!} The 15th Amendment Back in the day on March 30th, 1870 the 15th amendment was added to the constitution of the United States. Coming in the post-Civil War era, the last of the “reconstruction amendments” attempted to federalize enfranchisement for black males. Three versions of the 15th amendment [...]
Continue reading...Subversive Historian – 11/13/09
Friday, November 13, 2009
Supreme Court Rules Against Segregated Buses Back in the day on November 13th, 1956, the United States Supreme Court ruled against segregated seating on public buses in Montgomery, Alabama. Affirming a federal court ruling on Browder v. Gayle, the decision was a victory for the longstanding Montgomery Bus Boycott that had begun the year before. Organizers [...]
Continue reading...Glenn Beck Distorts Uprising’s Interview with Van Jones
Friday, September 11, 2009
[Don't think too hard now Glenn, you may pop a vein in your forehead!] The brain-cell challenged television and radio host Glenn Beck recently distorted an Uprising interview with Van Jones as part of his final crusade against one-time White House green jobs adviser. I discovered this today as a random youtube video appeared on a [...]
Continue reading...Subversive Historian – 09/10/09
Thursday, September 10, 2009
James Meredith and Ole Miss Back in the day on September 10th, 1962, the Supreme Court upheld the right of James Meredith, an African-American, to enroll at the University of Mississippi. A student at the all-black Jackson State College, Meredith applied for admission in January 1961. He was promptly denied when the NAACP filed in court [...]
Continue reading...Subversive Historian – 08/28/09
Friday, August 28, 2009
The March on Washington Back in the day on August 28th, 1963, hundreds of thousands of people participated in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Black union leader A Phillip Randolph first proposed the idea for a mass convergence on the nation’s capital. With organizational help from various civil rights groups, the planned demonstration [...]
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Tuesday, March 30, 2010
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