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Tag: Civil Rights Era

Democrats House of Representatives Wm. Lacy Clay (D–MO)June 29, 2017

Rep. Wm. Lacy Clay: Evoking MLK, Philando Castile’s shooter “did not act alone”

I will close with this: a brief teaching from the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on the occasion of another needless tragedy, the police […]

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Democrats Patrick Leahy (D–VT) SenateJune 23, 2017

Sen. Patrick Leahy: Shelby County v. Holder “has taken this country back to an era before the Civil Rights movement”

But the Supreme Court’s decision [Shelby County v. Holder] has taken this country back to an era before the Civil Rights movement–a bad time in […]

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Cory Booker (D–NJ) Democrats SenateJune 21, 2017

Sen. Cory Booker: Tradition of the Senate is to “slow things down”

We have seen this body, in the very short period of time I have been here, begin to undermine not just things that happened under […]

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Democrats Hakeem Jeffries (D–NY) House of RepresentativesJune 13, 2017

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries: Surge in racism is, in part, “connected to a historic backlash”

Now, in part, what we are seeing is connected to a historic backlash that has often occurred throughout this journey that we have been on […]

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Republicans Senate Tom Cotton (R–AR)May 24, 2017

Sen. Tom Cotton on expanding the Central High School Historic Site

Editor’s note: Several senators have introduced a bill to extend the boundary of Little Rock’s Central High School Historical Site to include nearby homes. The […]

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Republicans Sarah Sanders Trump AdminMay 13, 2017

Sarah Sanders: Johnson Amendment Akin to Silencing Martin Luther King

Look, I think it’s very hard to argue that a pastor or another faith leader shouldn’t be able to speak out about morality in the […]

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