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- 1From:AEI Paper & StudiesIan Rowe - irowe59@gmail.com 917 881 6908 March 31, 2021 To the distinguished members of the Rhode Island State Legislature Good afternoon. My name is Ian Rowe. I come to you today as a Resident Fellow at the...
- 2From:AEI Paper & StudiesRacial segregation among Americans' most intimate relationships is still common across most racial and ethnic groups. More than three-quarters (77 percent) of white Americans report that their core social network...
- 3From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY Wesley Branch Rickey (1881-1965) was an innovative baseball executive who created baseball's farm system and integrated organized baseball when he signed Jackie Robinson in 1946. Branch Rickey...
- 4From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY Guy Benton Johnson (1901-1991) was a sociologist, social anthropologist, and archaeologist. He was a distinguished student of black culture in the rural South and a pioneer advocate of racial...
- 5From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY The African American minister and Nobel Prize winner Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968), originated the nonviolence strategy within the activist civil rights movement. He was one of the most...
- 6From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY The American journalist Harry Scott Ashmore (1916-1998) was the 1958 Pulitzer Prize winner for his reports and commentary on the Little Rock, Arkansas, school integration crisis. Harry Ashmore...
- 7From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY Jack Roosevelt Robinson (1919-1972) was the first African American of the 20th century to play major league baseball. Jackie Robinson was born on January 31, 1919, in Cairo, Georgia, the son of...
- 8From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993) was an American civil rights lawyer, solicitor general, and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Thurgood Marshall was born on July 2, 1908, in Baltimore,...
- 9From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY The American journalist Ralph Emerson McGill (1898-1969) was the 1959 Pulitzer prize winner for his editorials on race, desegregation, and Southern politics--views that made him and the Atlanta...
- 10From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY The Southern writer Lillian Eugenia Smith (1897-1966) was recognized as a passionate critic of white supremacy and segregation. Her main concern was that the traditional pattern of race relations,...
- 11From:AEI Paper & StudiesThe previous selection, by W. E. B. Du Bois, offered a mocking literary critique of the absurdity of racial segregation in public accommodations. This selection, by Booker T. Washington (1865-1915), offers sober (and...
- 12From:The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (3rd ed.)The policy and practice of imposing the separation of races. In the United States, the policy of segregation denied African-Americans their civil rights and provided inferior facilities and services for them, most...
- 13From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY George Corley Wallace (1919-1998) was an Alabama governor and a third-party presidential candidate in 1968. Born on Aug. 25, 1919, at Clio, Ala., he studied at the University of Alabama and...
- 14From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY John Marshall Harlan (1833-1911) was the lone voice on the U.S. Supreme Court supporting legal equality for African Americans during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. John Marshall Harlan...
- 15From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY Senator, lawyer, governor of South Carolina, and presidential nominee on the "Dixiecrat" ticket in 1948, James Strom Thurmond (born 1902) is a conservative politician who was first elected to the...
- 16From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY The American labor and civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph (1889-1979), considered the most prominent of all African American trade unionists, was one of the major figures in the struggle for...
- 17From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY While with the NAACP, Charles Hamilton Houston (1895-1950) teamed with the American Fund for Public Service to direct a program of legal action and education aimed at the elimination of...
- 18From:The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (3rd ed.)A descriptive term for the segregation of institutions, businesses, hotels, restaurants, and the like. It also refers to the laws that required racial segregation....
- 19From:The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (3rd ed.)Pronunciation: (di fak-toh, day fak-toh) Racial segregation, especially in public schools, that happens "by fact" rather than by legal requirement. For example, often the concentration of African-Americans in certain...
- 20From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY On December 1, 1955, Rosa Lee Parks (née McCauley; 1913-2005) refused to relinquish her seat to a white passenger on a racially segregated Montgomery, Alabama bus. She was arrested and fined but...