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Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Mr. Alvin Brooks Discusses Autobiography With Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas
For anyone who really wants to understand the history of urban leadership in Kansas City, this is a worthwhile and essential conversation.
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Alvin Brooks’ mark on civil rights history in Kansas City – on the city’s history in total – is indelible. Born into poverty and a racist society, he became a trailblazing police officer and detective, city councilman, and mayor pro tem. Amid decades of advocacy for equal rights, violence prevention, and criminal justice, he founded the AdHoc Group Against Crime and chaired the local chapter of the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE).
8 Steps That Paved the Way to the Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was landmark legislation that required decades of actionsâand setbacksâto achieve.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was landmark legislation that required decades of actionsâand setbacksâto achieve.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. When it was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on July 2, 1964, it was a major victory for the civil rights movement in its battle against unjust Jim Crow laws that marginalized Black Americans. It took years of activism, courage, and the leadership of Civil Rights icons from Martin Luther King, Jr. to the Little Rock Nine to bring the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to fruition. These are eight key steps that ultimately led to the Act’s adoption.
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While Shirley Chisholm winning her bid for Congress may be old news now, when she ran in 1968 there was nothing inevitable about it. Chisholm had been a schoolteacher and administrator, who had recently been elected to the New York State Assembly in 1964, a historic first for a Black woman from Brooklyn.
Born and bred in Bed-Stuy, the heart of the 12th Congressional District, Chisholm knew her constituents. As a working woman of color, she was one of them. Wearing her Sunday best and smart cat-eyeglasses, in perfect diction with a slight lisp and a bit of West Indian lilt, she staked out her positions as a “candidate for the people” – by which she meant all the people in her multi-ethnic district.