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On July 10, 2008, prior to a taping of Fox and Friends, civil-rights activist Jesse Jackson was unwittingly caught by an open microphone whispering to a fellow interviewee, saying that then-candidate Barack Obama was talking down to black people and that he, Jackson, wanted to cut Obama's " nuts off ".

Class Identity politics were first described briefly in an article by L. A. Kauffman, who traced its origins to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ( SNCC ), an organization of the civil-rights movement in the USA in the early and mid-1960s.

By that time Gaines had received honors ( some described as posthumous ) and the FBI had accepted the case as the oldest of nearly a hundred civil-rights era disappearances referred to it by the NAACP.

But because of his experience with the FBI while active in the civil-rights movement during those years, he did not report it.

When World War II, which had already begun in Europe, swept in the United States two years later, the civil-rights struggle was suspended for the duration.

" The Redskins had no black players until they succumbed to the threat of civil-rights legal action by the Kennedy administration.

In the foreword, Benson alleges that the civil-rights movement is a communist plot for revolution in America.

Throughout the 1960s, Rush was involved in the civil-rights movement and worked in civil-disobedience campaigns in the Southern United States, and co-founded the Illinois chapter of the Black Panthers in 1968, and was made its " defense minister ".

Barack is a person who read about the civil-rights protests and thinks he knows all about it.

* Tom Kahn ( 1938 – 1992 ), U. S. social-democrat, civil-rights leader, and labor-union officer, who supported Solidarity ( Polish trade-union )

In his younger days he was an athlete, a talented pianist, a CIA agent, and later chaplain of Yale University, where the influence of Reinhold Niebuhr's social philosophy led him to become a leader in the civil-rights and peace movements of the 1960s and 1970s.

He later went to WRC-TV in Washington, DC, and stayed for three years, winning six journalism awards for coverage of civil-rights events such as the riots that followed the 1968 assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The civil-rights movement on campus also picked up momentum and visibility.

It's a civil-rights thing, isn't it?

He was an outspoken but articulate proponent for more minority enrollment at the law school, at a time when civil-rights consciousness was helping usher in a new era in America.

The AFL-CIO endorsed a civil-rights law and allowed individual unions to endorse the march.

Redding was the first African-American attorney in the history of Delaware and had developed a notable civil-rights practice in his years before the bar.

Alabama state troopers attack civil-rights demonstrators outside Selma, Alabama, on Bloody Sunday, March 7, 1965.

During the civil-rights furor of the 1960s, the Voting Rights Act signed into law in 1965 required that racial groups be given direct representation by political districts to assure the election of a member.

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The decision is considered a major milestone in the U. S. civil-rights movement.

Brown, a NAACP member, was convinced to join the lawsuit by civil-rights lawyer Charles S. Scott, a childhood friend.

The " commission penetrated most of the major civil-rights organizations in Mississippi, even planting clerical workers in the offices of activist attorneys.

The missing civil-rights workers became a major national story, especially coming on top of other events as civil rights workers were active across Mississippi in a voter registration drive.

Through Alfred, he is the great-grandfather of the noted Yankton Sioux ethnologist and writer Ella Deloria and the great-great-grandfather of Standing Rock Sioux scholar and writer Vine Deloria, Jr., author of Custer Died For Your Sins ( 1969 ), an American Indian civil-rights manifesto.