In North, in this year, there was wild talk of using troops to dissolve Congress and arrest its leaders and in South thousands on thousands of Black people thronged the dusty roads, shouting defiance and demanding division of the loaves and fishes. ..…
Despite this, Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill – arguing that voting is a privilege, like receiving free ice cream – claimed the state has no obligation to inform these newly enfranchised ex-felons of their restored rights. ..…
Even in the South, religious right candidates like Alabama Gov. Fob James lost. . ..…
And the government is not the problem, either. In Alabama and other states, anti-immigrant legislation is or ride to church, or counseling — to immigrant. ..…
Opening statements were made before the court last week in cases involving displays of the Ten Commandments on government property in Kentucky and Texas. Alabama's chief justice, Roy Moore, was dismissed from the bench in November 2003 because he would not remove a 5,300-pound granite..…
Thus, for Buckley, the federal government had no business declaring equal access when it couldn’t differentiate between uneducated black people in Alabama and black graduates of Harvard. The federal government should butt out; states should decide. If Massachusetts wanted to limit..…
State government is playing American politics and policy, with both the general public and, apparently, the lobbying industry, for solutions rather than to Washington.. ..…
Equal Justice Initiative/John Earle Bryan Stevenson with his colleagues at the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama, including senior attorney Charlotte Morrison (center row, second from left), as well as with two of his clients: Jesse Morrison (top left), who won a reduced..…
From his activism in the civil rights movement to his nearly 25 years in the House of Representatives, John R. ... The son of sharecroppers from Alabama, he rose with courage, fortitude and purpose to organize the first student sit-ins and the earliest freedom rides. ..…
The Alabama Legislature and Gov. Kay Ivey, in reaction to the nationwide debate over Confederate monuments, had passed a law protecting any statue more than 40 years old. ... Many naval officers attended, along with John Slidell, acting “an official representative of the..…