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Top Story of Spring 2001:

A Talk by Dr. Robert Jensen

Delivered to a panel on racial disparity in health at the annual conference of the American Public Health Association, Boston, Massachusets, November 14, 2000; and for the “Speaking Truth to Power” Series at Schreiner University, Kerrville, Texas, April 3, 2001

I want to start with the 34 most misused words about race ever spoken in the United States:

“I have a dream my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”

Those are, of course, the famous words of Martin Luther King Jr., spoken in 1963 at the March on Washington. King used the term “dream”, but his topic was the nightmare of race and America, of life in a racialized and racist society.

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Don’t panic, this is only a test.

The First Investigation and the First Texas Plan

By Greg Moses

The first civil rights review of Texas higher education began on April 4, 1978, exactly one decade after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Region VI Director of the Office for Civil Rights Dorothy Stuck, accompanied by two associates, arrived at 2:30 p.m. at the Austin office of Texas Higher Education Commissioner Kenneth Ashworth to discuss plans for the upcoming review (Stuck 1978, p.1).

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Top Story of Juneteenth 1999:

Seven Agents Sign Joint Complaint

By Greg Moses

(June 19, 1999) AUSTIN, TX–The Texas Civil Rights Review is posting the complete text of a civil rights complaint now pending before the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture (USDA) concerning alleged discriminatory practices at the Texas Agricultural Extension Service (TAEX).

The complaint, whichh is the subject of an ongoing investigation, alleges racial discrimination in employment, promotion, salary and position at TAEX, as well as discrimination against black youth in 4-H programs, and harrassment and retaliation against black employees who raise such issues.

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