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Widow of missing civil rights activist wants him home

Last updated Friday, April 27, 2012 - 10:11am

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — When civil rights activist Ray Robinson arrived at Wounded Knee in April 1973 to stand alongside Native Americans in their fight against social injustice, he excitedly called his wife back home and told her, “This could be the spark that lights the prairie fire.”

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Edith Lee-Payne of Detroit stands in front of an image of herself (at the age of 12), taken at the March on Washington, after participating in a Black History Month program at the Detroit School of the Arts.

Many faces associated with historic March on Washington

Cassandra Spratling Detroit Free Press

Last updated Sunday, February 26, 2012 - 8:22am

DETROIT -- When Americans celebrate Black History, especially when it has anything to do with the March on Washington, it's often an innocent girl's face they see -- in textbooks, on calendars, on brochures.

The photo of this little girl was taken by a freelance photographer working for the U.S. government. The original is stored in the National Archives, where for decades its caption identified the girl simply as a "young child in March on Washington."

But the nameless child is anonymous no more. Thanks to her own research and the work of staff at the National Archives, an identifying notation was added to the file.

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Hear civil rights stories Wednesday at WSU

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, February 21, 2012 - 11:36pm

OGDEN — Weber State University, 3848 Harrison Blvd., today will host a free talk on civil rights stories.

BYU history professor Rebecca deSchweinitz will speak at 1:30 p.m. in Room 219 of the Social Sciences Building. Her topic will be “Civil Rights Stories: Childhood and the Black Freedom Movement."

Call 801-626-8568 for more information.

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Elizabeth Eckford, one of the Little Rock Nine, the nine black students who integrated an Alabama high school in 1957, will speak at Weber State University tonight and at Two Rivers High School in Ogden on Thursday. (Courtesy photo)

Little Rock Nine student to speak on investing in yourself

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - 11:18am

OGDEN -- Elizabeth Eckford was 15 when she decided to try for a spot at a better high school, hoping her hard work might earn a college scholarship.

What Eckford, now 70, didn't expect was to be a frontline warrior in the early battle for civil rights.

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Woman who fought to integrate lunch counters dies at 72

Elinor J. Brecher McClatchy Newspapers

Last updated Wednesday, February 8, 2012 - 12:31am

MIAMI — Patricia Stephens Due, a lifelong Florida civil rights crusader who led 1960s-era demonstrations and voter-registration drives, went to jail for trying to integrate a lunch counter, and suffered permanent eye damage from a police assault, died Tuesday. She was 72.

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FILE - In a Monday, Dec. 5, 2011 file photo, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio discusses the latest in the document release on his office's handling of many sexual assault cases over the years in El Mirage, Ariz., during a news conference, in Phoenix. Federal authorities plan to announce their findings Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011 in a civil rights investigation of Arpaio, who has been accused of using discriminatory tactics in its signature immigration patrols. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Feds issue scathing report against AZ sheriff

Jacques Billeaud The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, December 16, 2011 - 6:24pm

PHOENIX -- Sheriff Joe Arpaio says a scathing U.S. Justice Department report about his office's law enforcement tactics marks what he calls "a sad day for America as a whole."

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Participants in Occupy Ogden carry a tent to their protest site in front of the Ogden Federal Building on Monday as they demonstrate against Congress’s proposed expansion of laws regarding the detention and trials of Americans accused of terrorism. Protesters say, if approved, the laws would stifle freedom of speech. (Contributed photo)

Occupy Ogden: Congress infringing on rights

JaNae Francis Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, December 12, 2011 - 11:30pm

OGDEN -- The right of all Americans to a trial by their peers was at the heart of a protest at noon Monday by about 20 members of the Occupy Ogden movement.

Marching and chanting at the Ogden Federal Building, the protesters expressed their concern over the U.S. Senate's National Defense Authorization Act, Senate Bill 1867, passed Dec. 1 by a vote of 93-7.

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Regional NAACP Convention set for Salt Lake City

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, September 23, 2011 - 9:51am

SALT LAKE CITY -- Members of the NAACP from Idaho, Nevada and Utah are gathering for a regional convention in Salt Lake City.

The Salt Lake branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is hosting a three-day conference that begins Friday.

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In Nashville, 3,000 demonstrators protested the bombing of Z. Alexander Looby’s home. “Freedom Riders,” part of the PBS series “American Experience,” recounts how civil-rights activists challenged segregation in the American South in 1961.

'Freedom Riders' a vivid look at civil-rights era

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Rob Owen

Last updated Sunday, May 15, 2011 - 2:02pm

PASADENA, Calif. -- It's easy to get lost among large swaths of American history, especially if you did not live through them. Most Americans, while certainly familiar with the civil-rights movement of the 1960s, may not know the details. And yet it's the details that often give the ground-level view of history that can bring history to life for a new generation.

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Groups file federal lawsuit over Utah's new immigration law

Los Angeles Times, Nicholas Riccardi

Last updated Tuesday, May 3, 2011 - 11:30pm

DENVER -- Utah won national attention earlier this year for promoting a gentler approach to immigration when it passed a law essentially allowing illegal immigrants to remain in the state if they work and don't commit crimes.

Yet on Tuesday, the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Immigration Law Center filed a federal lawsuit to stop the implementation next week of another Utah immigration law, one modeled on a controversial Arizona law that enlists local police to help root out illegal immigrants.

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Court says rights of Jensen's parents not violated

The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, March 30, 2011 - 7:42am

SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Supreme Court has ruled that state doctors and child-protection workers did not violate the constitutional rights of a boy's parents when they pushed to have him undergo chemotherapy.

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Calif. Supreme Court to consider key issue in battle over same-sex marriage

Los Angeles Times

Last updated Wednesday, February 16, 2011 - 12:17am

SAN FRANCISCO -- The California Supreme Court will decide today whether to plunge back into the legal battle over same-sex marriage.

The state high court, meeting in closed session, will review a request by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to determine whether Proposition 8's sponsors have legal authority to defend the ballot measure.

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(Courtesy photo) Martin Luther King Jr. talks with J.D. Williams, a political science professor at the University of Utah.

Civil rights leader Martin Luther King talked at the U of U in Jan. 1961

Charles F. Trentelman Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Sunday, January 16, 2011 - 11:18pm

OGDEN -- It doesn't exactly coincide with the Martin Luther King holiday today, but Utah is marking a 50-year anniversary involving King that Dr. Forrest Crawford is having trouble getting Utahns to realize is worth their attention.

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Church leaders address sheriff's letter on capital punishment

JaNae Francis Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Friday, January 14, 2011 - 12:38am

Several area church leaders disagreed Thursday with Weber County Sheriff Terry Thompson's letter to his staff telling them they were doing God's work and that God approves of capital punishment.

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Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Thursday, January 13, 2011 - 6:02pm

Arts center honors Human Rights Day

BRIGHAM CITY -- The Fine Arts Center hosts a Human Rights Day celebration from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday. Admission is free.

Children age 4 to 11, accompanied by an adult, are invited to the celebration. Stories relating to Human Rights Day, including a brief biography of Martin Luther King Jr., will be told from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; a different story starts every half-hour.

After listening to stories, participants may make their own mixed-media collage.

The Fine Arts Center is at 58 S. 100 West, Brigham City. For more information, call 435-723-0740.

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