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- From: shore@dinah.tc.cornell.edu (Melinda Shore)
- Subject: Re: Colorado Memory Systems & Non-Discrimination
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.190428.8578@tc.cornell.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 19:04:28 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.173637.19358@spdcc.com> rdonahue@spdcc.com (Bob Donahue) writes:
- > Now the other question is - it is poosible to start
- >court battles at the Federal level for something occuring at the state
- >level if the battle isn't allowed to be fought? If so then we
- >have a way out that might make it easier to overturn CO:2.
-
- I *strongly* recommend the television show "I'll Fly Away,"
- especially to youngsters and Yankees. It's set around 1960
- in North Carolina and deals with the civil rights movement
- in considerable detail and subtlety. A number of the
- issues raised around how the movement was conducted translate
- very well to the contemporary GLB rights movement.
-
- The reason that I bring it up here is that a current thread
- has the protagonist, who used to be the District Attorney
- in his town and now works in the same town for the Justice
- Department, is dealing with a case where a group of white
- men was acquitted of the murder of a black Army officer in
- what was clearly an unfair trial. Murder is not a federal
- crime, so Bedford [Forrest Bedford, his son's name is
- Nathan - is that cute, or what?] decides to prosecute the
- men for denying the murdered officer his civil rights.
- Again, I strongly recommend the show.
- --
- Hate is not a family value. Boycott Colorado
-
- Melinda Shore - Cornell Theory Center - shore@tc.cornell.edu
-