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BIH BAGGAGE CLAIM DEPT. CNN Special "Black In America" Feature Story
"BLACK IN AMERICA" ON CNN on July 23-24 "Lift Every Voice & Sing" Video
Posted June 29, 2008
CNN’S BLACK IN AMERICA SHOWS THAT IT IS TIME FOR BLACKS TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITYFOR THEIR OWN FORTUNES
By John Eddie ‘J.J.’ Jones
Special to The Mid-South Tribune ONLINE
And the Black Information Highway
I encourage each African American family to tune into CNN Special BLACK IN AMERICA (airing July 23 and July 24). Further, I engage each African American who wants to take responsibility for his or her own fortune to read and study about the rights we have been granted and accepted and enjoyed the benefits of for a while, but that we as a race has since 1972 stopped fighting in the Federal Courts to receive those economic benefits.
Go figure! Why suddenly has a generation of Blacks stopped using the very laws Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that so many African Americans and fair-minded European Americans marched and fought to have as our Civil Rights Laws in the CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS? See Lyndon Johnson's Fight for Civil Rights http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3087021. Standing behind the President as he signed the historic bill were: Civil Rights Leaders A. Phillip Randolph, International Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters; Whitney Young, National Urban League; Roy Wilkins, NAACP; and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Since 1972, the monetary or economic enforcement provision of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ceased to be filed by the NAACP, after having filed over 100 Title VI lawsuits between 1964 and 1972 but not a single one since 1972. The results of our not fighting or forgetting to fight for our economic rights or 'SILVER RIGHTS' is told in the story of being 'Black in America'!
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Mr. John Eddie ‘J.J.’ Jones, who is now a noted businessman and economist, was one of the NFL’s earlier African American Quarterbacks; thus, he has the distinction of paving the way for today’s African American NFL quarterbacks. Mr. Jones played quarterback with the New York Jets.
For more background, travel to these sites.
National Civil Rights Museum - About the Museum
The Civil Rights Act of 1866: This act granted black citizens equal rights to ... The Civil Rights Act of 1875: This act entitled all persons the 'full and equal ...
www.civilrightsmuseum.org/gallery/ civilrights.asp -
Title VI Statute
T ITLE VI OF THE 1964 CIVIL RIGHTS ACT. 42 U.S.C §§ 2000d - 2000d-7 ... Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is classified generally to this subchapter (Sec. ...
www.usdoj.gov/crt/cor/coord/ titlevistat.htm - Cached
Title IX, Education Amendments of 1972
Text of the Title IX legislation. ... Title IX, Education Amendments of 1972 ... Frequently Asked Questions | Freedom of Information Act | Customer Survey ...
www.dol.gov/oasam/regs/statutes/ titleix.htm
http://www.naacp.org/legal/expertise/index.htm
Fields of Expertise
Legal Department Practice Areas
The Legal Department through the direction of the General Counsel is responsible for the internal or corporate issues concerning the NAACP as well as for civil rights advocacy. The General Counsel serves as the Secretary of the Corporation. The Secretary is the custodian of the seal, charter amendments, By-Laws, standing resolutions and all proceedings of the Board of Directors and its committees. Under the NAACP Constitution, the Secretary is the custodian of all financial reports and the membership register.
The Legal Department is comprised of the General Counsel, a Deputy General Counsel, and several Assistant General Counsels. Each Assistant General Counsel is charged with forging litigation in at least one substantive area of civil rights law.
The Legal Department also counsels the Association in a number of internal practice areas including: internal governance and branch administration; trusts and estates; property; and contracts. The Legal Department's Civil Rights Practice Areas include: