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Rep. Keith Ellison |
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Del Bey Legislator, attorney. What do you think of the Civil Rights Movement today? "Well, because I define the Civil Rights Movement as a discrete movement to defeat racial segregation, I don´t think it´s going on today. In fact Civil Rights Movement gave way to the Black Power Movement in 1968. That Movement lasted until about 1975. Before the Civil Rights Movement was the Anti-lynching Movement and the Abolitionist Movement. All of these Movements have one thing in common-the fight for human dignity and human rights. This is why I speak in terms of the spirit of the Civil Rights Movement. The actual Civil Rights Movement is now a historic phenomenon. But we have an over abundance of things to struggle for today. I think historians and political scientists name Movements, not activists. Activists are too busy fighting for justice. No matter what we call the Movement, we still have to move and to fight to rid the world of militarism, environmental degradation, police violence, and other oppressive systems." |
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