H.K. Edgerton & Morris Dees

H K Edgerton finds a different way to wrap up Black History Month

1 posted on 04/04/2006 6:01:34 AM PDT by robowombat

For most of us who are scratching their heads over the mysteriously named 'Jacqueline Duty Case' here is some background:

SETTLEMENT REACHED IN PROM DRESS CASE
School Board elects not to go to trial

LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY -- Nearly two years after she was barred from her high school prom for wearing an evening dress patterend after a Confederate flag, Southern Legal Resource Center client Jacqueline Duty was vindicated as her former school board agreed to settle her lawsuit against it out of court.

The SLRC's local counsel in the case, Kentucky Attorney Earl Ray Neal, confirmed the settlement Tuesday, adding that the precise terms of the settlement, including the amount of damages awarded, will not be disclosed under under mutual agreement by attorneys for both sides. The case had been scheduled for trial in August, 2006.

"We know this comes as a tremendous boost for Jacqueline, especially at this time," said SLRC Executive Director Roger McCredie, who noted that Ms. Duty, now a college student, faces surgery tomorrow. "She couldn't ask for a better get-well card," he said.

Ms. Duty's case stemmed from events of May 1, 2004, when she was prevented from entering the senior dance at Russell High School wearing the red sequined ball gown she and her mother had worked on for two years. The dress featured a blue and white "half-X" diagonal stripe with stars, alluding to the basic design of the Confederate battle flag. School officials termed the dress "too contronversial." Following the incident, the Duty family contacted the SLRC, whose chief trial counsel, Kirk D. Lyons, together with Attorney Neal, had formed the winning legal team in another Kentucky case, Castorina v. Madison County Schools. That case overturned a school system's ban on Confederate-themed clothing.

Ms. Duty's case attracted international media attention and the school board's withdrawal is already being hailed as a highly significant and far reaching Southern heritage victory.

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For Additional Information, Contact:

Roger McCredie
The Southern Legal Resource Center
828.669.5189
exec@slrc-csa.org

2 posted on 04/04/2006 6:05:30 AM PDT by robowombat

My kids and I met HK once when he was standing post with the flag at the Vance Monument in Asheville. His grace and dignity is in a class by itself.

3 posted on 04/04/2006 6:11:23 AM PDT by Rebelbase (Bush signed CFR. He deserves to be bitched at as much as McCain.)

I hope all the people in that building saw Mr.. Dees for the coward he was and are still today asking themselves just why this man so powerful stood shaking in his ragged drawers afraid to answer a graying old Blackman who stood so very proud in the uniform of his Southern family.

Stupid question: Is he talking about a black man wearing a Confederate uniform? This would be interesting. When New Orleans was occupied by Union forces, part of the resistance, (Confederate Army) defending the city was composed of free black New Orleans business owners who wanted the Yankees out of their city.

4 posted on 04/04/2006 6:18:33 AM PDT by sportutegrl (People who say, "All I know is . . ." really mean, "All I want you to focus on is . . .")

To: stainlessbanner

I believe H. K. Edgerton is ALWAYS deserving of a Dixie ping!

Deo Vindice!

5 posted on 04/04/2006 6:18:45 AM PDT by RebelBanker (If you can't do something smart, do something right.)

H. K. is a former senior NAACP official who has taken to wearing a Confederate uniform and carrying a Confederate Battle Flag to protest the "civil rights" movement's demonization of all things Southern.

6 posted on 04/04/2006 6:20:34 AM PDT by RebelBanker (If you can't do something smart, do something right.)

To: righthand man; TexConfederate1861; chesley; rustbucket; JamesP81; LeoWindhorse; groanup; NerdDad; ..

8 posted on 04/04/2006 7:14:28 AM PDT by stainlessbanner

To: stainlessbanner

Well I have to say Mr. Edgerton was a lot nicer than I would have been to Morris Dees.

9 posted on 04/04/2006 7:27:08 AM PDT by billbears (Deo Vindice)

To: robowombat; stainlessbanner

Ms. Duty's case attracted international media attention and the school board's withdrawal is already being hailed as a highly significant and far reaching Southern heritage victory.

I hope with cases as this and the Florida State "Dixie" license . . . that we're turning the corner on celebrating Southern heritage.

Texas Forever!

10 posted on 04/04/2006 7:41:58 AM PDT by w_over_w (The more things change the more they stay the same.)

To: kevinjdeanna

So is Kirk Lyons. (Check out his link with Andreas Strassmeier, et al...)

11 posted on 04/04/2006 7:46:25 AM PDT by TXnMA

Edgerton is a real class act.

12 posted on 04/04/2006 7:51:09 AM PDT by stainlessbanner

God bless H. K. Edgerton! Deo vindice!

13 posted on 04/04/2006 7:52:20 AM PDT by 4CJ (Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito, qua tua te fortuna sinet.)

14 posted on 04/04/2006 8:02:06 AM PDT by IrishRainy

To: kevinjdeanna; Peach; doug from upland

Morris Dees is evil.

For a good look at the Dees/Lyons/Strassmeier/OKC bombing entanglement, see this FR thread

Or, of course, you could just Google "Strassmeier Lyons" or "Dees Lyons" or "Elohim lyons" or "OKC Lyons", or any other of a dozen combinations of this very spooky web of radical actors that surround the OKC bombing, Waco, etc...

To paraphrase what I said on another thread, "Anyone who investigatges -- in any direction -- around the OKC bombing will soon encoumter some very strange and dangerous people and organizations..."

15 posted on 04/04/2006 8:15:42 AM PDT by TXnMA

To: Rebelbase; All

HK (in addition to being my brother-in-arms) is a REALLY NICE guy & a Christian GENTLEman!

as a contrast, morris dees is a SHYSTER,a WORM & a HATER.

free dixie,sw

16 posted on 04/04/2006 8:22:06 AM PDT by stand watie ( Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God. -----T.Jefferson)

To: kevinjdeanna

Of Dee's it might be said that in the world of ideas he is a brilliant niche entrepreneur turning the paranoid fantasies of upper and upper middle class libs in NYC, SF and LA into pure gold for Morris Dees. He must have a circuitous laundry chain to provide life support funds to the fragmented bits of the Klan that are still active as the 'menace' of the bedsheet brigade is a standard Morris Dee's perennial.

17 posted on 04/04/2006 8:22:25 AM PDT by robowombat

HK (in addition to being my brother-in-arms) is a REALLY NICE guy & a Christian GENTLEman!

He is also a credit to the uniform he wears and the flag he carries, and I'd be proud to soldier right alongside him. I reckon those who wore it long before him also appreciate his efforts at keeping the Light of their deeds burning.

18 posted on 04/04/2006 11:07:05 AM PDT by archy (I am General Tso. This is my Chief of Staff, Colonel Sanders....)

you are CORRECT!

when HK & i meet (NOT OFTEN ENOUGH!), we call each other , "Brother" (of the heart)!

free dixie,sw

19 posted on 04/04/2006 2:29:27 PM PDT by stand watie ( Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God. -----T.Jefferson)

H.K. EDGERTON IS THE MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

20 posted on 04/04/2006 5:31:44 PM PDT by Colt .45 (Navy Veteran - Thermo-Nuclear Landscapers Inc. "Need a change of scenery? We deliver!")

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