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Related: About this forumthere will be new generation fighting a war we thought we had won...
does anyone think the new generation will let anyone turn them around?
if the racists from the supreme on down to the local precinct captain in this country think they will stop civil rights for everyone then they are sadly mistaken.
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there will be new generation fighting a war we thought we had won... (Original Post)
madrchsod
Jun 2013
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LongTomH
(8,636 posts)1. Only a few days ago, we had THIS sad anniversary.......
June 21 marked the anniversary of the murder of three young civil rights workers in Philadelphia, Mississippi, during the 'Freedom Summer' of 1964. James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Henry Schwermer were murdered by members of the Ku Klux Klan.
madrchsod
(58,162 posts)3. i remember...jr year in high school
by 65 my civics teacher was saying we`d be drafted to go to vietnam.
nineteen50
(1,187 posts)2. People are angry at this court
and it keeps throwing more wood on the fire as if nothing will happen.
BillyRibs
(787 posts)4. This is so,
They can find the Rabble rousers and "disappear" them. I've come to the conclusion that this game is over. and we don't have another quarter.
DreamGypsy
(2,252 posts)5. A message from the old generation to that new generation ...
...from Shadows That Shine: The Song of Phil Ochs -
The Summer of 1964 in Mississippi was Freedom Summer, the continuation of Medgar Evers work to register black voters people in the Southern States. It took thousands of Northerners, black and white, down South, among them Phil Ochs. Their efforts led directly to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, another step toward true equality. Prominent among the organizers was Fannie Lou Hamer who later said, Before the 1964 project there were people that wanted change, but they hadnt dared to come out. After 1964 people began moving. To me its one of the greatest things that ever happened in Mississippi.
Phil Ochs sang of his reason for joining that movement -
and Phil tells us now that
You Should Have Been Down in Mississippi - by Phil Ochs
(Search did not reveal video/audio, sorry - DG)
Pardon me, all you people
Who enjoy your peace of mind
You say everybody's equal
Everybody is doing fine.
You should've been down in Mississippi
In the summer of sixty-four
If you were down in Mississippi
You wouldn't say that anymore.
Pardon me, Mr Backlash,
You say you're worried about your home
You say we're going too far too fast
You say you want to be left alone.
chorus
Pardon me, Mr Policeman,
Why are you shining up your shield
You say you stand for law and order
You wouldn't do no dirty deals.
chorus
Pardon me, Mr Soldier,
Why are you marching down the road
You say you're fighting for your future
And the freedoms that you hold.
chorus
Pardon me, Mr Chief Justice,
You want your place in history
You say you're doing all you can do
To make all the people free.
You should've been down in Mississippi
In the summer of sixty-four
If you were down in Mississippi
You wouldn't say that anymore.
Thanks for the post, madrchsod. I think the struggle will go on and will eventually succeed. But there are no fights without cost.
From 1964 -
fasttense
(17,301 posts)6. So Injustice Thomas voted to repeal the civil rights act.
I wonder how much that vote cost a corporation?
It seems capitalism can always find someone to betray the human race.