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'Detroit's other Rosa Parks': Sarah E. Ray featured in NYT book for fight against segregation

Sarah Elizabeth Ray was asked to get off a boat while attending a graduation trip in 1945 because she was African American. In 1948, her case reached the U.S. Supreme Court - who ruled in her favor. ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - KNTV - 20190730:09:15:00

Feces, can t take a shower come on, man reporter: now in a series of at least 20 tweets, the president is attacking not just the african-american lawmaker and the majority african-american city, but the african-american civil rights activist al sharpton who criticized the remarks describing sharpton as a con man and a troublemaker i make trouble every time racists and bigots move around in any way, shape or form, including the president. reporter: the president s defenders insist he s not racially motivated but fighting back against a congressional antagonist on the campaign trail, candidate trump lookedor what do you have to lose? reporter: today, some in baltimore suggest he hasn t stepped up i think it was idiotic. i think it was hurtful i think it was bigoted i think he is a racist. not only his tweets, but i think he has some issues as it relates ....

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Transcripts for CNN Erin Burnett OutFront 20130403 23:19:00

To have a certain view, then they re talked about is being slaved on a plantation. john lewis, an african-american civil rights activist who is a democratic politician, is he anybody s slave? honestly? did you push back against those characterizations? i agree with you there. mary, i agree with you there. john lewis is not anybody s slave. he is a great man. he s a hero. but what dr. carson was talking about was the hell that black conservatives and by the way, woman conservatives, latino conservatives. you are listening, marco rubio, the double standard and heck and unfair vicious attacks that are launched on people of color or women that dare to break out of the box. all right. the republicans are trying to reach out to minorities right now. they re trying to reach out to mi nort minorities right now s this the way to do it? to say somebody that has a policy that is not conservative is somehow on a plantation to ....

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Transcripts for CNN Erin Burnett OutFront 20130403 23:18:00

mary? i think niger is generalizing there. because while there was some criticism, when people used those images of a colin powell and condoleeza rice, there was pushback and criticism. they were honored and admired by many african-americans. give me a break, mary. there was no mary that, is not true. there was no criticism from the race merchant machine out there. the al sharptons, naacps, they were silent when that happened, mary. that is not true. i was engaged in those battles. i pushed back. heck no. i m not going to let you get away with that, mary. you re too smart. that is not true. that is hypocrisy and you re wrong and that s a lie. that is not a lie. j you re generalizing. there are merchants out there that the silence was deafening, mary. what do you think of all this slavery imagery? if an african-american happens ....

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