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Rachel Leibrock December 30, 2020Updated: January 8, 2021, 4:00 pm
A global pandemic. Social unrest. An election that left democracy hanging in the balance. The year 2020 unfolded, day by day, as an age of reckoning.
As the new year approaches, it feels like we can rest. There’s a COVID-19 vaccine; ongoing discourse on race, gender and class; and a new administration headed for 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Not so fast. Our collective work for anti-racism, equity, science (and, let’s face it, common sense) is far from over. Here are 10 books to pick up in 2021 because the work isn’t done; it’s just getting started.
well, first i d like to say that i don t think the peace prize was given to me personally and i don t accept it as a personal honor. i think it is rather a tribute to the wise restraint of discipline and dignity with which negroes and white persons of good will have carried out the whole struggle for civil rights. by the end of 1964, dr. king is aware that the one major southern civil rights challenge that had not been dealt with in the 1964 civil rights act was voter registration. bewildering hodgepodge of election laws from state to state prevents many from voting. boss-controlled political machines disenfranchise others by downright fraud. a negro citizen may go to register only to be told that the day is wrong or the hour is late or the official in charge is absent.
and here is the news. there is some mystery and some fear concerning three civil rights workers, two whites from new york city and a negro from mississippi. police say they arrested the three men for speeding yesterday, but released them after they posted bond. they have not been heard from since. they paid the fine and i released them and escorted them to their car. and that s the last time we saw any of them. we got word that mickey and andy and james had been arrested. and there was no word what had happened to them. mr. president, i wanted to let you know we have found the car. yeah? now, this is not known, nobody knows this at all, but
the movement begins with montgomery, becomes the sit-in campaign, the freedom ride, the birmingham campaign, the mississippi summer, the selma to montgomery march. history will record that those singular cumulative acts of courage transformed the south. transformed the country. we wanted to change america, make america better, not just for our generation, but for generation yet unborn. all of the civil rights, all the marches, all the people who have died in the civil rights struggle will have died in vain if once the opportunity, once the doors are open, no one is prepared for it. i know there s got to be several young people here who are like 5