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Richard Gergel (Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring) and Steve Luxenberg (Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson and America’s Journey from Slavery to Segregation) discuss the historical backgrounds for groundbreaking court rulings that both denied and ignited civil rights for African-Americans in the United States. UVA Law School Dean Risa Goluboff moderates.
Sponsored by: CFA Institute
Hosted by: Charlottesville Chapter of The Links, Incorporated
Sat. March 23, 2019, 12:00 PM at the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center
Photo credit: CFA Institute
Defending Freedom, Defining Freedom: The Era of Segregation, 1876-1968, part of the the History Galleries, explores the years following the end of Reconstruction to show how the nation struggled to define the status of African Americans.
The National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), administered by the Smithsonian Institute, was established in December 2003 and opened its permanent home in September 2016. The 350,000-square-foot, 10-story (five above and five below ground) was built to the postmodern design of Phil Freelon's Freelon Group, Sir David Adjaye's Adjaye Associates and Davis Brody Bond. The above ground floors feature an inverted step pyramid surrounded by a bronze architectural scrim, which reflects a crown used in Yoruba culture. With more than 40,000 objects in its collection, although only about 3,500 items are on display, the NMAAHC is the world's largest museum dedicated to African-American history and culture.
The Smithsonian Institution, an educational and research institute and associated museum complex, administered and funded by the government of the United States and by funds from its endowment, contributions, and profits from its shops and its magazines, was established in 1846. Although concentrated in Washington DC, its collection of over 136 million items is spread through 19 museums, a zoo, and nine research centers from New York to Panama.
This rough sketch for an illustrated opera libretto drew Washington native Carolivia Herron in to a mystery regarding “Colored Only” signs in D.C. in the 1930s.
An Act to make provision for the better protection and care of the Aboriginal inhabitants of Western Australia
The purpose of the Aborigines Act (continued from the earlier 1886 Act) was the ‘protection, control and segregation of Aboriginal people’. Unlike the earlier legislation, the impact of the 1905 Act was far-reaching, establishing an administrative regime under the control of a Chief Protector that invaded every aspect of Noongar people’s lives. The Act assumed that Aboriginal people were a ‘dying race’ in its objective of forced assimilation of future generations.
The Act incorporated terms of ‘caste’ and ‘blood’ into the definition of ‘Aboriginality’ where ‘persons deemed to be Aborigines include all Aboriginal inhabitants of Australia, and half-castes or their children’. More Noongar people were affected by this Act than any previous discriminatory legislation, and its impact lasted well into the 1970s (reinforced by subsequent amending Acts).
The Chief Protector had wide-reaching power as legal guardian of all Aboriginal children (under 16 years) whom he decided were illegitimate. He could grant or deny permission for Aboriginal women to marry non-Aboriginal men and could manage the property of Aboriginal people without their consent. Freedom of movement was also restricted. In the subsequent 1936 Native Administration Act, which continued the objectives of the 1905 Act, there were severe penalties, including imprisonment for cohabitation between Noongars and Europeans. Police had extensive powers of surveillance, which continued for some time.
The segregation reinforced by the Act and the existing attitudes based on race, established an apartheid regime where Aboriginal people in Western Australia were discriminated against in all sorts of ways. Civil rights were denied by the Act. For example: those Noongars who had lost control of their property under the 1905 Act lost their eligibility to vote at State Elections.
In 1893, men were entitled to vote at WA elections if they leased or owned property. The Commonwealth Franchise Act, 1902, stated that no ‘Aboriginal native of Australia, Asia or Africa’ were entitled to vote unless already enrolled as voters in their State. Even if Noongars were eligible to vote, this right was removed by the Electoral Act 1907. Aboriginal people did not obtain the right to vote at State and Federal elections until 1962.
Richard Gergel (Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring) and Steve Luxenberg (Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson and America’s Journey from Slavery to Segregation) discuss the historical backgrounds for groundbreaking court rulings that both denied and ignited civil rights for African-Americans in the United States. UVA Law School Dean Risa Goluboff moderates.
Sponsored by: CFA Institute
Hosted by: Charlottesville Chapter of The Links, Incorporated
Sat. March 23, 2019, 12:00 PM at the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center
Photo credit: CFA Institute
Monroe Elementary, completed in 1927, was one of four segregated black schools operating in Topeka. In 1951 a student of Monroe, Linda Brown, and her father, Oliver Brown, became plaintiffs in a legal battle over racial segregation. The case reached the Supreme Court, where it gained the name Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. In 1954 the Supreme Court determined that the segregation of schools was unconstitutional. In 1992 the Monroe School was designated a National Historic Landmark. Now it is a National Parks Service site committed to educating the public about this landmark case in the struggle for civil rights.
Credit for the preceding text goes to: www.kansasmemory.org/item/9338
One of the ushers hired to urge women to board from the rear door and men from the front door -- in complete violation of Israeli law
One core topic in quantitative social science is the measurement of the polarization or segregation of groups. The vast quantity of digital data such as Internet browsing histories, item-level purchase data, or text, allows us to get a picture of interests, opinions, and related behavior. The challenge is that parsing this high-dimensional data requires methods different from the standard, existing practices of measurement. In this talk, Matthew Taddy will discuss how ideas from machine learning can be used to build a new set of metrics for measuring segregation in high dimensions. His talk will focus on how these methods were applied to measure the partisanship of speech in the United States Congress from 1872 to the present, and compare the results with the conclusions drawn from more simplistic, bias-prone measures.
Flames rise behind the four Doric-style columns that once framed the entrance to the Drewryville School building. Meanwhile a bulldozer in the background skirts a burning pile of wood and pulverizes bricks from the structure. The school first opened in 1924 and served white students in the 1st through 11th grades during segregation. It closed in 1955, and was heavily damaged by Hurricane Isabel in September 2003. Photo taken on Monday, July 20, 2009.
Gila County, AZ
Listed: 01/04/2001
The Bullion Plaza School is being nominated to the National Register under Criterion A, for its association with the history of Mexican Americans and school segregation in Arizona, and Criterion C, as an example of late Neo classical Revival architecture in public buildings in Miami. Segregation of Mexican-American students was a common practice in Arizona schools from the early decades of the 1900s until the early 1950s precisely the period during which Bullion Plaza School served as a segregated school for Miami's Mexican-American children. The school also is representative of "Mexican schools" because of its configuration and operation as a vocational training center, which school administrators at the time thought was needed for Mexican-American students because of their supposed inability to perform well in traditional scholastic subjects.
Unfortunately, the history of the segregation of Mexican-American students is not well known, and there are few properties in Arizona on the National Register commemorating this important aspect of the state's ethnic history. This omission can be remedied by placing this building on the National Register. Given the rarity of other Mexican-American school buildings on the Register, the Bullion Plaza School is historically significant at the state level.
As an example of Neo-Classical Revival architecture, the Bullion Plaza School is significant at the local level. Only two of the existing buildings in Miami are in this style (the other is the Miami YMCA), and none is currently listed on the National Register. Architect-designed buildings were rare in Miami during the period when the Bullion Plaza School was constructed, and buildings that were executed in a recognized architectural style were even rarer. As a result, this Neo-Classical building has exerted a marked influence on the town's built environment that should be recognized through listing on the National Register.
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DELIA RIVERA
3/16/2012
The demise of Pruitt-Igoe is a moment in architectural history that illustrates the ability of public housing projects to become segregation tools. We first learned about Pruitt-Igoe in an introductory design course in 2009. The iconic image of one of the buildings’ implosion struck us and we could not help but feel an ominous sense. After recently watching The Pruitt-Igoe Myth, we got an inside look at the experiences of the people that once called Pruitt-Igoe home. It put the image of the implosion into an intimate perspective and gave us a backstory. It was quite touching and spurred an interest in us to re-imagine what the site and its surroundings could become.
During our site analysis, we found that the building density around the site was very low. With many small brownfield plots of land surrounding the large brownfield forest, we decided to limit new building to the small brownfield plots and to leave the brownfield forest relatively untouched, with only five clearings to allow for picnic area gathering and social interaction. The new buildings are placed adjacent to existing buildings, some of which are abandoned. These are to be restored and subject to adaptive reuse to provide housing for young professionals, students, and small families on the upper levels and urban amenities, such as restaurants, shops, and art galleries on the ground level.
Through the reuse of brownfield plots and abandoned buildings, we hope to reinvigorate the area surrounding the Pruitt-Igoe site and activate the site itself by first drawing people to the general vicinity. Once this happens, the Pruitt-Igoe site can breathe new life and organically become a type of urban living room for the people of St. Louis to gather and interact.
Juan Gelez & Delia Rivera
Highlighted New Listing – May 27, 2011
Montgomery, Montgomery County, AL
The Montgomery Greyhound Bus Station, located at 210 S. Court Street in Montgomery, Alabama, was made famous world-wide on May 20, 1961, when the Freedom Riders, a group of civil rights activists and students who wanted to test the validity and enforcement of segregation on the nation’s new interstate system in the south, were attacked by a white mob awaiting their arrival at the station. The South was the scene of many civil rights struggles where state laws segregated African Americans and European Americans. The Montgomery Greyhound Bus Station itself is a small, modest, single-story building constructed in 1950-51, but has earned its place in history by focusing the federal government to intervene instead of deferring to states to solve civil rights issues.
Richard Gergel (Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring) and Steve Luxenberg (Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson and America’s Journey from Slavery to Segregation) discuss the historical backgrounds for groundbreaking court rulings that both denied and ignited civil rights for African-Americans in the United States. UVA Law School Dean Risa Goluboff moderates.
Sponsored by: CFA Institute
Hosted by: Charlottesville Chapter of The Links, Incorporated
Sat. March 23, 2019, 12:00 PM at the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center
Photo credit: CFA Institute
Waste should always be discarded at the point of use by the person who used the item to be disposed of. At this injection site in Ethiopia, color-coded plastic bins are supplied for immediate segregation.
Women of the wastepicker community segregate dry recyclables into paper, plastics, and metal.
Photo: Ted Mathys, 2009 AP Fellow. Location: Delhi. Partner: Chintan.
Richard Gergel (Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring) and Steve Luxenberg (Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson and America’s Journey from Slavery to Segregation) discuss the historical backgrounds for groundbreaking court rulings that both denied and ignited civil rights for African-Americans in the United States. UVA Law School Dean Risa Goluboff moderates.
Sponsored by: CFA Institute
Hosted by: Charlottesville Chapter of The Links, Incorporated
Sat. March 23, 2019, 12:00 PM at the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center
Photo credit: CFA Institute
Update 2014: Despite USDOE Office of Civil Rights agreement in 2011- www.flickr.com/photos/artsnsociety/sets/72157633773217228/#-
Somerville MA continues to use this nonstandard and inaccessible ramp as the "accessible route" to the Parent Information Center office, claiming that if someone doesn't find it accessible, they can call up and request accommodations. There is a regular coffee hour for parents held in here, sponsored by the city of Somerville Public School District. If the USDOE doesn't monitor their own agreements with school districts, we'll never achieve OpportunityForAll, will we?
Richard Gergel (Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring) and Steve Luxenberg (Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson and America’s Journey from Slavery to Segregation) discuss the historical backgrounds for groundbreaking court rulings that both denied and ignited civil rights for African-Americans in the United States. UVA Law School Dean Risa Goluboff moderates.
Sponsored by: CFA Institute
Hosted by: Charlottesville Chapter of The Links, Incorporated
Sat. March 23, 2019, 12:00 PM at the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center
Photo credit: CFA Institute
Richard Gergel (Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring) and Steve Luxenberg (Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson and America’s Journey from Slavery to Segregation) discuss the historical backgrounds for groundbreaking court rulings that both denied and ignited civil rights for African-Americans in the United States. UVA Law School Dean Risa Goluboff moderates.
Sponsored by: CFA Institute
Hosted by: Charlottesville Chapter of The Links, Incorporated
Sat. March 23, 2019, 12:00 PM at the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center
Photo credit: CFA Institute
This young man is one of several ushers who was hired to direct women to the rear doors and men to the front doors of Egged buses. The megaphone he carries broadcasts a recorded message at the touch of a button asking men to board from the front and women from the rear. All this is in direct violation of Israeli law.