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To: ltc8k6

Unless something changes, it doesn't look like that's going to happen. No mention of Duke.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1998/07/08/60minutes/main13502.shtml


379 posted on 10/22/2006 10:52:37 AM PDT by Sue Perkick (The true gospel is a call to self-denial. It is not a call to self-fulfillment..John MacArthur)
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To: Sue Perkick

Tonight's featured rally speaker:

Joe Leonard Jr., formerly Jesse Jackson's man in Washington and now executive director of the Black Leadership Forum.

While he was growing up in Austin, Texas, Leonard's parents were pioneering educators and his father was the first black to run for Travis County office. He lost, but went on to manage the campaign of Berl Handcox, the first black elected to the Austin City Council since the 1880s.

For Leonard, who recently completed his doctorate in civil rights history, his cohort is like the one that followed America's Founding Fathers -- a big letdown. "I chastise my own generation," he said. "We haven't done enough."

http://www.newhousenews.com/archive/tilove021105.html

As the crowd grew even larger, the sun began to shine and a smile on Reverend Jackson’s face emerged that seemed to exude the confidence he had submerged as he questioned whether his efforts were done in vain.

Gary L. Flowers, vice president of Rainbow PUSH Coalition, and Joe Leonard, executive director of the Black Leadership Forum, were overjoyed by the turnout. They proclaimed that the civil rights movement is not dead, that people are still ready to march and that “protests that lead to power” still works.

The foot soldiers undoubtedly were the members of NAACP chapters from around the country and the labor unions who were present in full force.

http://www.washingtoninformer.com/OPEDLetsTalk-2005Aug11.html

* These people are highly organized.


380 posted on 10/22/2006 10:53:54 AM PDT by xoxoxox
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To: Sue Perkick

I already said that.... :-)


409 posted on 10/22/2006 8:45:37 PM PDT by ltc8k6
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