This document discusses social justice lawyering and provides examples of social justice lawyers throughout history who have fought for civil rights, human rights, and justice for marginalized groups. It highlights the immense legal response to Hurricane Katrina and examples of modern-day social justice lawyers working on issues like disability rights, immigration, criminal justice reform, and more. It encourages readers to pursue social justice law and quotes emphasizing the importance of struggle and solidarity in creating positive change.
This presentation exposes what is mental health with statistics that will open your eyes that this issue might be closer to home thank you think!
By Alison Roberts
In this presentation you will learn what white privilege is, how it affects politics and the economics, explore if it is specifically an American problem, and ways to combat it.
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This presentation exposes what is mental health with statistics that will open your eyes that this issue might be closer to home thank you think!
By Alison Roberts
In this presentation you will learn what white privilege is, how it affects politics and the economics, explore if it is specifically an American problem, and ways to combat it.
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This presentation examines an ethnographic study of global justice activists arrested, their resistance behind bars, and interactions with the general jail population.
The Civil Rights Movement
Dr. James Patterson
Black Civil Rights Movement
Basic denial of civil rights (review)
Segregation in society
Inferior schools
Job discrimination
Political disenfranchisement
Over ½ lived below poverty level
Unemployment double national ave.
Ghettoes: gangs, drugs, substandard housing, crime
Early Victories
WWII egalitarianism and backlash against German racism
Jackie Robinson integrated professional baseball—1947
Desegregation of the armed forces ordered by president Truman—1948
Marian Anderson performed at the New York Metropolitan Opera House—1955
Increased interest in civil rights a result of Cold War propaganda
Brown v. Board of Education
1954 – Topeka, Kansas
Linda Brown: filed suit to attend a neighborhood school
“Separate educational institutions are inherently unequal.”
Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson
Court says: integrate "with all deliberate speed.”
What did this mean?
Linda Brown and Family
Circumvention of Brown v. Board of Education Ruling
White supremacist parents feared racial mixing and attempted to block black enrollment.
Ignored the integration issue
Token integration
Segregation through standardized placement tests
Segregation through private schools
Stalling through legal action
By 1964, 10 years after the Brown case, only 1% of black children attended truly integrated schools.
Little Rock High School
1957 courts order integration in Little Rock
9 black students enrolled.
Governor called out militia to block it.
Mobs replaced militia after recall.
Eisenhower ordered federal troops to protect the students.
Daily harassment
Courageous black students persevered.
Montgomery Bus Boycott
1955--Rosa Parks arrested for not giving up seat to white man
Boycott of bus system led by Martin Luther King, Jr.:
Walking, church busses, car pools, bicycles
Bus lines caught in the middle
Rosa Parks being Booked
Supreme Court ruled bus companies must integrate.
Inspired other protests:
Sit-ins, wade-ins, kneel-ins
Woolworth’s lunch counter
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Non-Violent
Influenced by Ghandi
“The blood may flow, but it must be our blood, not that of the white man.”
“Lord, we ain’t what we oughta be. We ain’t what we wanna be. We ain’t what we gonna be. But thank God, we ain’t what we was.”
Freedom Riders
Activists traveled from city to city to ignite the protest.
Bull Conner:
in Montgomery
Dogs
Whips
Water hoses
Cattle prods
Television
Public backlash
Civil Rights March (AL. 1965)
1963 - Washington, D.C. "I have a Dream“—200,000 Attended
Civil Rights Legislation
1964 - Civil Rights Act
1964 - 24th Amendment
Abolished Poll Tax
1965 Voting Rights Act
Affirmative action
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Gender Diversity-- High School students did research, prepared a report, and summarized their work at the Salina Public Library's Community Learning Center. Their talk is entitled "The Eisenhower Roots of Judicial Diversity: Race and Gender," sponsored by the Salina League of Women Voters.
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85. Instead of holding a position of independence between the wealthy and the people …able lawyers have… neglected to use their powers for the protection of the people Louis Brandies - 1905 Option for the Poor and Powerless
86. Clara Shortridge Foltz Women’s rights Public defender Admitted 1878
124. Wherever you find tragedy and injustice You will also find resistance and inspiration
125. If you have come to help me you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us struggle together. Solidarity Lila Watson – Aboriginal Activist Collective