The Jefferson Bank Protest-a flashpoint in the St. Louis Civil Rights Movement
CORE’s just demand was to hire four employees to address the racist hiring practices in St. Louis banking institutions. When the bank’s response was that there were not “four Blacks in the city” fit for such jobs, CORE launched a protest that became the longest and most contentious in St. Louis civil rights history.
That One Innocent Sufferer Who’s Made to Suffer More
When the matter of wrongful convictions is discussed, you may hear the frequently cited theory by Sir William Blackstone: it is better that ten guilty people go free than one innocent person suffer. The English legal scholar formulated the theory in 1765 and it became the basis for the noble idea that one is innocent until proven guilty.
The Dems are not over the “Enormous Peril’ Part yet Kamala Harris Could have a long, perilous road to the White House
Harris as a potential Presidential nominee can only expect success if the Democrats launch a serious, vibrant grassroots campaign that informs and galvanizes all the constituents that trump has marginalized and criminalized.