“Race” and Ethnicity, Archaeological Approaches to from Encyclopedia of Archaeology: History and Discoveries. Race. NAACP | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power: Timothy B. Tyson: 9780807849231: Amazon.com. Union County, North Carolina. Union County is included in the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC Metropolitan Statistical Area. History[edit] The county was formed in 1842 from parts of Anson County and Mecklenburg County. Its name was a compromise between Whigs, who wanted to name the new county for Henry Clay, and Democrats, who wanted to name it for Andrew Jackson. The Helms, Starnes, McRorie, and Belk families took a major part in the Monroe and Charlotte, North Carolina. Most of these families came from Goose Creek Township.
Monroe, the county seat of Union County, also became a focal point during the Civil Rights Movement. In 1958, local NAACP Chapter President Robert F. Law and government[edit] Union County is a member of the regional Centralina Council of Governments. Geography[edit] According to the U.S. Adjacent counties[edit] Major highways[edit] Demographics[edit] Communities[edit] Cities and towns[edit] Map of Union County, North Carolina With Municipal and Township Labels Townships[edit] Ghost towns[edit] Gibraltar.
Monroe, North Carolina. Monroe is a fast-growing city and the county seat in Union County, North Carolina, United States. The population jumped from 26,228 in 2000 to 36,397 in 2010. It is the seat of government of Union County [3] and is also part of the Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, NC-SC Metropolitan area. Monroe uses a council-manager form of government. Geography[edit] Monroe is located at WikiMiniAtlas 34°59′20″N 80°32′59″W / 34.98889°N 80.54972°W / 34.98889; -80.54972 (34.988760, -80.549792)[4]. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 24.9 square miles (64 km2), of which, 24.6 square miles (64 km2) of it is land and 0.3 square miles (0.78 km2) of it (1.13%) is water.
History[edit] In 1843, the first Board of County Commissioners, appointed by the General Assembly selected an area in the center of the county as the county seat and Monroe was incorporated that year. Ludwig drums and timpani are manufactured in Monroe, North Carolina. Demographics[edit] Local media[edit] Robert F. Williams. Robert F. Williams, May 1961 Robert Franklin Williams (February 26, 1925 – October 15, 1996) was a civil rights leader and author, best known for serving as president of the Monroe, North Carolina chapter of the NAACP in the 1950s and early 1960s. At a time when racial tension was high and official abuses were rampant, Williams was a key figure in promoting armed black self-defense in the United States. Williams helped gain gubernatorial pardons for two African-American boys convicted for molestation in the controversial Kissing Case of 1958.
Williams' book Negroes with Guns (1962) details his experience with violent racism and his disagreement with the pacifist wing of the Civil Rights Movement. Early life[edit] Williams was born in Monroe, North Carolina in 1925 to Emma Carter and John L. Marriage and family[edit] In 1947, Williams married Mabel Robinson, a fellow civil rights activist. Civil rights activities[edit] First they worked to integrate the public library. Kissing Case[edit] Independent Lens . NEGROES WITH GUNS: Rob Williams and Black Power . Rob Williams. The first African American civil rights leader to advocate armed resistance to racial oppression and violence, Robert F.
Williams was born on February 26, 1925 in Monroe, North Carolina. The fourth of five children born to Emma Carter Williams and John Williams, Williams quickly learned to navigate the dangers of being black in the Deep South. The Ku Klux Klan was a powerful and feared force in Monroe, and the community where Williams grew up experienced regular brutalization at the hands of whites. Williams’ grandmother, a well-read and proud woman who was born a slave in Union County in 1858, taught Williams to cherish his heritage and to stand up for himself.
After high school Williams joined the Marines in hopes of being assigned to information services, where he could pursue journalism. Williams also filed for a charter from the National Rifle Association (NRA) and formed the Black Guard, an armed group committed to the protection of Monroe’s black population. Supreme Court Weighs Future Of Voting Rights Act. Hide captionThe Supreme Court on Wednesday weighs the future of a key provision of the landmark Voting Rights Act. Carolyn Kaster/AP The Supreme Court on Wednesday weighs the future of a key provision of the landmark Voting Rights Act. Once again, race is front and center at the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday. The provision at issue in Wednesday's case applies only to specific parts of the country where discriminatory voting procedures were once rampant. Congress came up with the formula in 1965 to cover areas of the country that had a history of blatant, even violent discrimination in voting; but the formula has not been changed since 1975, and it still relies on election data from 1972.
Congressional Action The congressional vote in 2006 was overwhelmingly and astonishingly bipartisan, with the Senate voting unanimously to extend the law and the House voting 390-33. Under the law, any jurisdiction with a clean record for 10 years could bail out, and some have done just that. But Rep. History: Voting Rights Act. Despite the fact that African Americans and other racial and ethnic minority Americans are guaranteed the right to vote by the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which was passed just after the Civil War in 1870, states and local municipalities continued to use tactics such as poll taxes, literacy tests and outright intimidation to stop people from casting free and unfettered ballots.
During the Civil Rights activism of the 1960's, just 5 days after Martin Luther King, Jr. led the march on Selma, President Lyndon Johnson announced his intention to pass a federal Voting Rights Act to insure that no federal, state or local government may in any way impede people from registering to vote or voting because of their race or ethnicity. In 1965, President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law. There were 3 enforcement-related provisions of the Voting Rights Act that would have expired in August 2007 unless reauthorized. Melissa Harris-Perry: Dear Scalia: ‘Entitlement’ comment undermines core of our democracy. Now playing Can ‘swagger-challenged’ Dems flip the House? Up next GOP candidate flips the script Can more voters be mobilized for midterms? Key midterm races to keep an eye on Residents look to exit diversifying community A model of success for integrated communities Has America made progress on fair housing?
How race can affect the very air you breathe Immigration hunger strike rolls on Troubling behavior some girls see as ‘normal’ Is sexual harassment a new normal for girls? One woman’s journey to ‘free womanhood’ How do Americans decide who they fear? The ‘double standard’ in labeling terrorism The link between one website and hate crimes The power moms wield to shift gun control MHP: Why changing Redskins’ name makes sense Rooting out racial bias in the justice system Will latest diplomatic deal hold in Ukraine? Should Europe play bigger part in Ukraine? The economic fairness for women workers. Race and ethnicity in the United States Census. Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, defined by the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the United States Census Bureau, are self-identification data items in which residents choose the race or races with which they most closely identify, and indicate whether or not they are of Hispanic or Latino origin (the only categories for ethnicity).[1][2] The racial categories represent a social-political construct for the race or races that respondents consider themselves to be and "generally reflect a social definition of race recognized in this country.
"[3] OMB defines the concept of race as outlined for the US Census as not "scientific or anthropological" and takes into account "social and cultural characteristics as well as ancestry", using "appropriate scientific methodologies" that are not "primarily biological or genetic in reference. "[4] The race categories include both racial and national-origin groups.[5] How data on race and ethnicity are used[edit] a. B. 14. School Closures Pit Race And Poverty Against Budgets. Hide captionJean De Lafayette Elementary School is one of 50 schools slated to be closed in Chicago. Cities across the country are facing similar decisions, and opposition to the closures is growing. Scott Olson/Getty Images Jean De Lafayette Elementary School is one of 50 schools slated to be closed in Chicago. Cities across the country are facing similar decisions, and opposition to the closures is growing. In Chicago, parents are fighting to prevent the city from closing 54 public schools.
The Chicago Teachers Union is planning a rally against the cost-cutting proposal next week. School closings are nothing new, but in a growing number of districts around the country, what was once seen as a local decision to close schools has now morphed into a politically charged campaign. People opposed to school closings have almost never organized beyond their own neighborhoods, let alone marched on Washington, until recently. "I came here to demand. Finding The Trends Minority Communities At Risk.
| The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed. National Association of Colored Women. National Association of Colored Women's Clubs Emblem The National Association of Colored Women Clubs (NACWC) was established in Washington, D.C., USA, by the merger in 1896 of the National Federation of African-American Women, the Women's Era Club of Boston, and the National League of Colored Women of Washington, DC, as well as smaller organizations that had arisen from the African-American women's club movement. Founders of the NACWC included Harriet Tubman, Margaret Murray Washington,[1] Frances E.W.
Harper, Ida Bell Wells-Barnett, and Mary Church Terrell. Its two leading members were Josephine Ruffin and Mary Church Terrell. Their original intention was "to furnish evidence of the moral, mental and material progress made by people of color through the efforts of our women". During the next ten years, the NACWC became involved in campaigns in favor of women's suffrage and against lynching and Jim Crow laws.
Born on August 31, 1842 in Boston, Josephine St. NACWC Objectives[edit] National Association of Colored Women's Clubs (NACWC) Race. Malcolm Gladwell. Gladwell dot com - malcolm gladwell, blink, tipping point and new yorker articles. Outliers: The Story of Success: Malcolm Gladwell: 9780316017930: Amazon.com. Outliers (book) Committee to Combat Racial Injustice [WorldCat Identities] Nina Jablonski | Profile on TED.com. Nina Jablonski breaks the illusion of skin color. Q&A with Nina Jablonski: Society and skin. Before her TEDTalk went up on Friday, anthropologist and skin expert Nina Jablonski took some time out of writing her new book to talk to the the TEDBlog.
Nina had a lot to say about how our skin affects how we are perceived, sometimes in ways we want it to and sometimes in much more pernicious ways. Are you excited that your TEDTalk is being posted? I’m very excited, very happy. I greatly enjoyed being at TED and the atmosphere of the gathering. Also, I think the spread of TEDTalks via the Internet is even more important than being there. So, of all the things you could study, why skin? It started as an accident more than 15 years ago. Then, in 1995 to ’96, new data on UV radiation at the Earth’s surface was released from NASA. Speaking of which, in your book you talk about skin decoration and how humans are unique in decorating our skin by tattoos, make-up and more. We do have an awareness of ourselves that allows us to engage in willful decoration that other animals do not engage in. Racial entitlement? One day, many years ago, I was working in my college bookstore when this guy walks in wearing a T-shirt.
"White Power," it said. I was chatting with a friend, Cathy Duncan, and what happened next was as smooth as if we had rehearsed it. All at once, she's sitting on my lap or I'm sitting on hers -- I can't remember which -- and that white girl gives this black guy a peck on the lips. In a loud voice she asks, "So, what time should I expect you home for dinner, honey? " Mr. Which tells you something about how those of us who came of age in the first post-civil rights generation tended to view racism; we saw it as something we could dissipate with a laugh, a tired old thing that had bedeviled our parents, yes, but which we were beyond. I've spent much of my life since then being disabused of that naivete. So a chill crawled my spine last week as the Supreme Court heard arguments in a case that could result in gutting the Voting Rights Act.
Sit with that a moment. Lord, have mercy. Why? Author Interview: Kenneth Cukier, Co-Author Of 'Big Data' When the streaming video service Netflix decided to begin producing its own TV content, it chose House of Cards as its first big project. Based on a BBC series, the show stars Kevin Spacey and is directed by David Fincher, and it has quickly become the most watched series ever on Netflix. The success of House of Cards is no accident. Netflix executives knew exactly what their millions of customers were watching; they knew precisely how popular the works of Fincher were, and how many of their customers were fans of Kevin Spacey, and how many people were streaming the British House of Cards. Sifting through that mountain of data, Netflix executives were able to predict that House of Cards would be just what Netflix viewers would want to watch.
That kind of decision-making is an example of Big Data: the decade-long explosion of digital information, much of it personal, that has become available to companies and governments. Interview Highlights On how Target identifies pregnant customers. Dealing With 'Root Causes' To Tackle Incarceration Rates. Host Scott Simon talks with Jeffrey Beard, secretary of the California Department of Corrections, about high incarceration rates and the social effects they have on communities. Beard is a member of a National Academy of Science committee studying the high rates of incarceration in the United States.
Copyright © 2013 NPR. For personal, noncommercial use only. See Terms of Use. For other uses, prior permission required. This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News, I'm Scott Simon. It's a trend that's matched all around the country. That job now falls to Jeffrey Beard. JEFFREY BEARD: Sure thing, Scott. SIMON: And why is - as a generalization - why has the prison population grown to large? BEARD: I think it, back in the 1970s, there was a number of things going on. SIMON: What are the consequences of having so many people locked up? BEARD: Well, there's many consequences. About 20 percent of the inmates who we get into the prison system have a mental health problem. BEARD: Well, yes.