Bookmarks Magazine | Comprehensive Book Reviews and Coverage The Easter massacre of 1873—and the subsequent Supreme Court decision that sabotaged Reconstruction I have a hard time with the fact that, across the United States, so many of these shrines to hate and white supremacy still exist. Colfax, a small town with a population of 1,492, is over 61% African American. Yet, the marker still stands. Recall that the marker was installed in 1950; like so many of these monuments, the intention “was not to honor the … dead but to assert and celebrate white supremacy in the present.” Race Bridges Studio storyteller and teaching artist Zahra Glenda Baker, who was born in Colfax, relates the history of the massacre from her personal perspective. Read the full transcript here. Hi, I’m Zahra Baker. Listening to Baker tell her story reminded me that we all have connections to that thing we call “history” if we dare to dig into the past. I’ve written about the Colfax Massacre before; I am republishing a portion of that story here today. When Christians think of the meaning of Easter Sunday, it symbolizes resurrection and hope. x
Libraries Aotearoa - Libraries Aotearoa Publishers Weekly | Book Reviews, Bestselling Books & Publishing Business News Frequently Asked Questions About Ending Qualified Immunity - Institute for Justice What is qualified immunity? “Qualified immunity” is a special protection for government officials the U.S. Supreme Court created in 1982 as an act of judicial policymaking. By default, all government officials are immune from liability if they violate your rights. Under qualified immunity, government officials can only be held accountable for violating someone’s rights if a court has previously ruled that it was “clearly established” those precise actions were unconstitutional. What does it take to show that a right is “clearly established”? To show that a right is clearly established, a victim must identify an earlier decision by the U.S. Do courts need to decide whether the Constitution was violated before granting qualified immunity? No. For instance, when a police officer shot a 10-year-old child while trying to shoot a nonthreatening family dog, the Eleventh Circuit U.S. Does qualified immunity apply to government officials other than police? Yes. No. Yes. Yes. No. No. No. Yes. Yes.
Library Research Service Public Libraries Online » A Publication of the Public Library Association Virus Of Hate: Plagues And Anti-Asian Racism, Then And Now | WSHU Most people think of the bubonic plague as the disease that killed a third of Europe’s population back in the Middle Ages. “The plague never really went away,” says David Randall, a reporter and author of the history book, "Black Death at the Golden Gate." Randall describes how the plague killed more than 7 million people in Asia and the Pacific Islands in the late 1800s, when modern global shipping began. “It was only a matter of time before it reached San Francisco.” In March of 1900, a Chinese day laborer named Won Chut King was close to death. “In Chinatown at the time there was rampant anti-Asian bigotry,” Randall says. King passed away without comfort from friends or family. “He notices a ‘bubo,’ which is a swollen lymph node on the groin or armpit. The quarantine only covered Chinatown. “There’s a racial aspect to it as well,” Randall says. There is a history of racist myths in the United States that diseases associated with Asia are especially dangerous. Kenyoun was fired. Dr.
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