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2023 Robert Talbot Civil Rights Speaker Series, University Of Maine Alumni Association, Greater Bangor Area Branch Naacp

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Promotional email for "Maine's Path to Inclusion and Equity: Navigating the Challenges and Opportunities Ahead." The 2023 Robert Talbot Civil Rights Speaker is Rachel Talbot Ross, a highly respected, Maine-based Civil Rights advocate and leader. Talbot Ross is the first Black woman to serve in the Maine Legislature, and has been the Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives since December 2022, making her the highest ranking African-American politician in Maine history.

Understanding An American Paradox: An Overview Of The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom, Spearit

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In The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom, Sahar Aziz unveils a mechanism that perpetuates the persecution of religion. While the book’s title suggests a problem that engulfs Muslims, it is not a new problem, but instead a recurring theme in American history. Aziz constructs a model that demonstrates how racialization of a religious group imposes racial characteristics on that group, imbuing it with racial stereotypes that effectively treat the group as a racial rather than religious group deserving of religious liberty.

In identifying a racialization process that effectively veils religious discrimination, Aziz’s book points to several important …

U.S. Government And Politics In Principle And Practice: Democracy, Rights, Freedoms And Empire, Samuel Finesurrey, Gary Greaves

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This book is written for students early in college to provide a guide to the founding documents and structures of governance that form the United States political system. This book is called American Government and Politics in Principle and Practice because you will notice that what has been inscribed in law has not always been applied in practice-particularly for indigenous peoples, enslaved peoples, people of color, women, LGBTQIA+, people with disabilities, those formerly incarcerated, immigrants and the working class within U.S. society. In designing this book, we have two goals. First, we want you to know what the founding documents …

Presentation Notes, Grady Johnson

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Presentation notes about Edna Saffy by Grady Johnson delivered at the UNF Library Dean's Council Gratitude Reception, November 2015.

The "Unfinished Work:" The Civil War Centennial And The Civil Rights Movement, Megan A. Sutter

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The Civil War Centennial celebrations fell short of a great opportunity in which Americans could reflect on the legacy of the Civil War through the racial crisis erupting in their nation. Different groups exploited the Centennial for their own purposes, but only the African Americans and civil rights activists tried to emphasize the importance of emancipation and slavery to the memory of the war. Southerners asserted states’ rights in resistance to what they saw as a black rebellion in their area. Northerners reflected back on the theme of reconciliation, prevalent in the seventy-fifth anniversary of the war. Unfortunately, those who …

Interview Of John Mackin, John Mackin, Alex Palma

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John Mackin was born in 1943 in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He moved to Longbeach, New York when his father returned home from WWII. Soon after his family moved there, they moved again to Collingswood, New Jersey. Finally, his family moved to Cherry Hill, New Jersey when John was 16. John attended public and Catholic school growing up and attended Boston College for his higher education. John hit a rough page after college during which he struggled with alcoholism. At the time of the interview, he worked at the La Salle University Connelly Library. A position he got in 1984 while the …

Link Racial Past To The Present, Jill Ogline Titus

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Americans have been putting a great deal of energy into commemorating the 50th anniversary of some of the key moments of the civil rights movement. This burst of memorialization has inspired one new museum in Atlanta and the redesign of another in Memphis. The Smithsonian and Library of Congress are launching a new oral-history initiative, and films like Selma bring the movement to life for those who rarely read a history book or visit a museum.

This year brings more anniversaries: the Selma-to-Montgomery March, the passage of the Voting Rights Act, and the Watts rebellion. And the commemorative stakes are …

I'Ve Seen The Promised Land: A Letter To Amelia Boynton Robinson, Mauricio E. Novoa

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You asked if I had any thoughts or comments at the end of our visit, and I stood and said nothing. I opened my mouth, but instead of giving you words my throat was sealed by a dam of speechlessness while my eyes wept out all the emotions and heartache that I wanted to share with you. The others in my group were able to express their admiration, so I wanted to do the same. [excerpt]

Sam Gen Ms 01 Jean Byers Sampson Papers Finding Aid, John D. Knowlton, Susannah Clark

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Jean Byers Sampson was a 1944 graduate of Smith College. Early in her post-Smith career, she conducted and wrote the 1947, “A Study of the Negro in Military Service,” which contributed to President Harry Truman’s decision to desegregate the armed forces. Sampson moved to Maine in the early 1950s with her husband, Richard Sampson, a Bates College mathematics professor, and she played a unique and critical role in the state until her death in 1996. Over the course of her life in Maine, she served as the founder of the first chapter of the NAACP in Maine, local and …

Ua1b1/5 Martin Luther King Forum, Wku Archives

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Records regarding the Martin Luther King Forum.

Ticket To Unf Presidential Lecture - Ken Burns October 16, 2007, Edna Louise Saffy

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Confirmation for two tickets to the UNF Presidential Lecture Series on October 16, 2007. “Implications of World War II” Ken Burns, held at the UNF Arena.

Writings: Transcript - A Bold New Revolution: Jacksonville Before Consolidation, Edna Louise Saffy, James B. Crooks, David Milam, Jay Mooney, Raymond Neal, Louis H. Ritter, Carolyn L. Williams, Alton Yates

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Speeches: A transcription of A Bold New Revolution: Jacksonville Before Consolidation - A Panel Discussion Commemorating 38 Years of Consolidated Government October 21, 2006.

Writings: Handwritten Notes Related To “A Bold New Revolution: Jacksonville Before Consolidation”, Edna Louise Saffy

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Various handwritten pages pertaining to “A Bold New Revolution: Jacksonville before Consolidation” program which occurred in 2006.

Flyer: Commemorate The Women's Movement In Jacksonville, Edna Louise Saffy

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Flyer for Women’s Equality Day program Balis Park in San Marco, Jacksonville, Florida August 26, 2000.

Program: A Commemoration Of Women's History Program August 26, 2000, Edna Louise Saffy

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Women's Equality Day Eighty Years of Women's Suffrage Thirty Years of Jacksonville Women's Movement August 26, 2000 9 A.M. Includes program, and Procession of Honor to Mary Nolan’s grave. Program Committee: Karen Danko, Cathy Drompp, Pam Flynn, Sharon Laird, Edna Saffy, Judy Sheklin, Elizabeth Teague and Louise Stanton Warren.

Writings: Program Presented In Balis Park, San Marco, Jacksonville Florida. In Celebration Of Women On August 26, 2000, Edna Louise Saffy

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Speeches: Version of the program delivered on August 26, 2000 by Dr. Edna L. Saffy commemorating Women’s Equality Day, eighty years of woman’s suffrage and thirty years of the Jacksonville Women’s Movement.

Nomination Concert Ticket-Shrine Auditorium. Thursday August 17, 2000, Democratic National Convention

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Nomination Concert Ticket-Shrine Auditorium. Thursday August 17, 2000.

Nomination Celebration Concert Invitation. August 17, 2000, The Democratic National Committee

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Nomination Celebration Concert Invitation. August 17, 2000.

Special Guest Passes (2000 Democratic National Convention) August 14-17 2000, 2000 Democratic National Convention

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A series of special guest passes for the Democratic National Convention. August 14-17, 2000.

America's Women 2000 Democratic Convention Pass. August 14-17, 2000. Los Angeles, California, Democratic National Convention

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America's Women 2000 Democratic Convention Pass. August 14-17, 2000. Los Angeles, California.

Credentials Committee Meeting, Democratic National Convention

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Credentials Committee Meeting badge at the Democratic National Convention August 13, 2000.

Fax: The White House – April 12, 1998, Radio Address Of The President To The Nation, William Jefferson Clinton

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Bill Clinton’s radio address to the nation from the Oval Office.

Fax: White House Office Of The Press Secretary, May 29, 1996, The White House

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A fax sent to Dr. Saffy with security clearance information for the Women’s luncheon on May 31, 1996.

Discrimination, Jobs, And Politics, Anita L. Allen

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Social Science And Segregation Before Brown, Herbert J. Hovenkamp

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The courts must bear a heavy share of the burden of American racism. An outpouring of historical scholarship on racism and the American law reveals the outrageous and humiliating extent to which American lawyers, judges, and legislators created, perpetuated, and defended racist American institutions. The law is not autonomous, however, particularly in areas of explicit public policy making. Lawyers did not invent racism. Rather they created racist institutions because society was racist and racism was implicit in its values. The trend in scholarship on the legal history of American racism, however, has been to place most of the blame for …

Ua68/8/3 The Student Researcher, Vol. Iii, No. I, Phi Alpha Theta

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Publication of the Eta-Pi Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta. This issue includes:

• Bussell, Judy. The Women's Suffrage Movement: 1870-1900
• Davenport, Beverly. RFK and Civil Rights "1961: It Had Only Just Begun"
• Kellems, Brady. The Election Dispute of 1876
• Lega, Mark. A.J.P. Taylor: Gadfly Historian
• Tatum, Raymond. The Hartford Convention: Those "Wise Men of the East"

Correspondence Between Assistant Chancellor Stanley L. Freeman And President Winthrop Libby On Draft Of Discrimination Policy, Stanley L. Freenman Jr., Winthrop C. Libby, Ronald F. Banks

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Letters regarding the formation of a University of Maine blanket non-discrimination policy draft in light of the Civil Rights movement. Assistant Chancellor Stanley L. Freeman, on April 24, 1970, wanted President Winthrop C. Libby's comments and suggestions on the statement. President Libby states on April 28, 1970, areas where the University of Maine does not comply to the blanket non-discrimination policy draft. Ronald Banks, Assistant to President Libby, on April 28, 1970, gives the final policy on discrimination statement.

Letter From Nicole Kimball To Hugh Saunders On University Of Maine's Sororities Membership, Nicole Kimball

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A letter from Nicole Kimball, President of Panhellenic Council at the University of Maine, to Hugh Saunders, Chairman Maine Advisory Committee Commission on Civil Rights, written on March 7, 1963 on UMaine's sororities membership in regards to Black and Jewish students.