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#IDedicateThisWeekTo Bob Moses, American educator & civil rights activist,known for his work as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee on voter education &registration in MS during the Civil Rights Movement &his co-founding of the MS Freedom Democratic Party.

Well, I don't think that the Democratic Party to this day has confronted the issue of bringing into its ranks the kind of people that were represented by the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. That is the real underclass of this country.

Bob Moses

When you’re in Mississippi, the rest of America doesn’t seem real and when you’re out in the rest of America, Mississippi doesn’t seem real.
Bob Moses

#IDedicateThisWeekTo Edward Knipling, an American entomologist, who..received the 1992 World Food Prize for ,developing the sterile insect technique for eradicating or suppressing the threat posed by pests to the livestock and crops that contribute to the world's food supply.

Edward Knipling's contributions included the parasitoid augmentation technique, insect control methods involving the medication of the hosts, and various models of total insect population management. Knipling was best known as the inventor of the sterile insect technique (SIT).

The New York Times Magazine proclaimed on January 11, 1970, that Edward “Knipling...has been credited by some scientists as having come up with 'the single most original thought in the 20th century.'"

#IDedicateThisWeekTo Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg,the demure firebrand who in her 80s became a legal,cultural &feminist icon.
The Notorious RBG was architect of the legal fight for women's rights. She served 27 yrs on the nation's highest court,becoming its most prominent member.

The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Fight for the things that you care about. But do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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#IDedicateThisWeekTo Jimmy Breslin, an American Pulitzer Prize winning journalist &author. He wrote a column for the New York Daily News. He wrote numerous novels, and columns of his appeared regularly in various newspapers in his hometown of New York City.

A politician finds anything to do with racial problems far more frightening than a gun.

Jimmy Breslin

If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest.

Jimmy Breslin

#IDedicateThisWeekTo Betty Friedan, a feminist writer &activist. A leading figure in the women's movement, her 1963 book The Feminine Mystique is often credited w/sparking the 2nd wave of feminism in the 20th century. Friedan co-founded the National Organization for Women (NOW).

I was at a meeting two years ago in Beijing, and I passed a bunch of women who were marching in a protest. Their signs were probably saying something I wouldn't have agreed with at all. But I was so glad to see women marching. And it's happening all over the world.

Betty Friedan

The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.

Betty Friedan

#IDedicateThisWeekTo Harold Ickes, US Sec’y of the Interior from 1933 to 1946.
Ickes was responsible for implementing much of President FDR’s "New Deal", in charge of the major relief program, the Public Works Administration &in charge of the fed gov’t’s environmental efforts.

..Harold Ickes was considered a prominent liberal spokesman, a skillful orator &a noted supporter of many African-American causes..Before his nat’l-level political career, in which he did remove segregation in areas of his direct control, he had been president of Chicago NAACP.

An American is one who loves justice and believes in the dignity of man. An American is one who will fight for his freedom and that of his neighbor. An American is one who will sacrifice...

Harold Ickes

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#IDedicateThisWeekTo Ansel Adams,an American landscape photographer &environmentalist known for black-and-white images of the American West.He found Group f/64,an assoc’n of photographers advocating "pure" photography favoring sharp focus &use of full tonal range of a photograph.

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

Ansel Adams

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
Ansel Adams

#IDedicateThisWeekTo Joseph Rainey, the first black person to serve in the US House of Representatives. His service included time as presiding officer of the House. Born into slavery in SC, he &his family were freed in the 1840s when his father purchased their freedom.

Joseph Rainey supported the Enforcement Acts, to suppress the violent activities of the Ku Klux Klan. This helped before white insurgents developed paramilitary groups (the White League &Red Shirts.
He made 3 speeches in support of what was passed as the Civil Rights Act of 1875.

But we do want a law enacted that we may be recognized like other men in the country. Why is it that colored members of Congress cannot enjoy the same immunities that are accorded to white members? Why cannot we stop at hotels here without meeting objection?..

Joseph Rainey

#IDedicateThisWeekTo Beulah Mae Donald, who won a $7 million judgment from the Ku Klux Klan after Klansmen murdered her son.
'She'll forever have a place in history as the woman who beat the Klan,' said Morris Dees.

''I wanted to know who all really killed my child,'' she said. ''I wasn't even thinking about the money. If I hadn't gotten a cent, it wouldn't have mattered. I wanted to know how and why they did it.''

Beulah Mae Donald

From the moment she insisted on an open casket for her battered son—''so the world could know'' - she challenged the silence of the Klan &the recalcitrance of the criminal justice system..All she ever wanted, she says,was to prove that ''Michael did no wrong.''
Beulah Mae Donald

#IDedicateThisWeekTo Martha and Waitstill Sharp, American Unitarian aide workers, who helped thousands of Jews, intellectuals, and children in Prague, Lisbon, and southern France in 1939–1940.
Yad Vashem honored the Sharps as Righteous Among the Nations in 2006.

Waitstill and Martha Sharp, a Unitarian minister and his wife, a social worker, spent six months in Prague in 1939, distributing money and helping intellectuals escape to the United States.

Waitsill and Martha Sharp
After narrowly escaping arrest in Prague &returning home,the couple traveled to Lisbon &southern France to distribute food &to help Jews &intellectuals escape.Martha organized a transport of children to the U.S.,which became a model for later transports.

#IDedicateThisWeekTo Alan Berg, atty &talk radio show host in Denver, CO. Berg was known for his liberal, outspoken viewpoints &confrontational interview style. Berg was fatally shot by members of the white nationalist group The Order, a group planning to kill prominent Jews.

Alan Berg
Berg stepped out of his black VW Beetle &gunfire erupted. He was struck 12 times, by a semi-automatic Ingram MAC-10..traced to..one of The Order's members by FBI.
At the trial for his murder, prosecutors proved he was singled out for assassination because he was a Jew.

I know there are anti-Semitic people out there among you gentiles..I know that you’re listening. I want you to call me and tell me why you don’t like Jews. Let’s not pretend this doesn’t exist. Let’s stir it up. You’re anti-Semitic, and you know it..

Alan Berg

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#IDedicateThisWeekTo Jim Henson, an American artist, cartoonist, puppeteer, inventor and filmmaker who achieved worldwide fame as the creator of The Muppets and Fraggle Rock.
He produced The Muppet Show, won fame for his creations & was involved w/Sesame Street for over 20 years.

Watch out for each other. Love everyone and forgive everyone, including yourself. Forgive your anger. Forgive your guilt. Your shame. Your sadness. Embrace and open up your love, your joy, your truth, and most especially your heart.

Jim Henson

[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

Jim Henson

#IDedicateThisWeekTo A. Phillip Randolph, a trailblazing leader, organizer and social activist who championed equitable labor rights for African-American communities during the 20th century.
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A. Phillip Randolph

He founded the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, which by 1937 would become the first official African-American labor union. In the 1940s, Randolph's abilities as an organizer had grown to such lengths that...
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A. Phillip Randolph

..he became the driving force in ending racial discrim in gov’t defense factories &desegregating the armed forces,both done via presidential decree.Becoming involved in additional civil rights work,he was a principal organizer of the 1963 March on Washington.

#IDedicateThisWeekTo Nathanael West, an American author and screenwriter, best remembered for two darkly satirical novels: Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust, set repectively in the newspaper and Hollywood film industries.
His reputation grew after his death.

Nathanael West

“At college, and perhaps for a year afterwards, they had believed in literature, had believed in Beauty and in personal expression as an absolute end. When they lost this belief, they lost everything.”

— Nathanael West

#IDedicateThisWeekTo George C. Marshall, American statesman and soldier, who rose through the U.S. Army to become Chief of Staff under presidents Roosevelt &Truman, then served as Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense under Truman.

George Marshall
Winston Churchill lauded George Marshall as the "organizer of victory" in World War II.
As Sec’y of State from ‘47-‘49 Marshall advocated rebuilding Europe, a program that became known as the Marshall Plan, leading to award of the 1953 Nobel Peace Prize.

The Marshall Plan revitalized Western Europe following the devastation of WW 2. George Marshall’s vision of a foundation for lasting peace and prosperity became reality, lasting 70 years.
Trump’s Nationalism threatens to deconstruct that institution of Western Liberal Democracy.

#IDedicateThisWeekTo Larry Doby, who broke The American League’s baseball color barrier the same year Jackie Robinson was the first black player in The National League, 1947.
when he signed a contract to play with Bill Veeck's Cleveland Indians.

Larry Doby
A seven-time All-Star center fielder, Doby and teammate Satchel Paige were the first African-American players to win a World Series championship when the Indians took the crown in 1948. He helped the Indians win a franchise-record 111 games and the AL pennant in 1954.

We were barred from organized ball because we were black. We knew it. We didn’t talk about it. We didn’t think about it [while a member of Newark Eagles Of Negro National League].
But then a great man named Bill Veeck bought my contract and made me a Cleveland Indian.

Larry Doby

#IDedicateThisWeekTo Rachel Carson, an American marine biologist, author, and conservationist whose book Silent Spring and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement.

Rachel Carson

Although Silent Spring was met w/ fierce opposition by chemical companies,it spurred a reversal in nat’l pesticide policy,which led to a nationwide ban on DDT and other pesticides. It inspired a grassroots environmental movement that led to the creation of the EPA.

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.

Rachel Carson

#IDedicateThisWeekTo Elliot Richardson, among the greatest American heroes, ever. Famously remembered as The AG who stood up to Nixon & resigned, prompting The Saturday Night Massacre. He held 4 Cabinet positions &was an astonishingly accomplished WW2 hero. (The real Clark Kent.)

Elliot Richardson
To appreciate Elliot Richardson’s remarkable life, I recommend review of two items. Read his obituary and listen to Episode 6 of Rachel Maddow’s Podcast, “Bagman”.
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#IDedicateThisWeekTo Margaret Bourke-White, American photographer &documentary photographer, best known as 1st foreign photographer permitted to take pictures of Soviet 5-year plan, 1st American female war photojournalist, &1st woman allowed to work in combat zones during WW II.

Margaret Bourke-White

To understand another human being you must gain some insight into the conditions which made him what he is.

Margaret Bourke-White

#IDedicateThisWeekTo Dorothy Thompson, American newspaperwoman and writer, one of the most famous journalists of the 20th century.
After World War I she went to Europe as a freelance correspondent and in 1925 she became head of the Berlin bureau of the New York Evening Post..1/

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..she began reporting about the Nazi movement, infuriating Adolf Hitler so much that, by his own personal order in 1934, she became the first American correspondent to be expelled from Germany. In 1936, for the New York Herald Tribune...

Dorothy Thompson3/
..she began her newspaper column “On the Record,”—hugely popular &eventually syndicated to as many as 170 daily papers (1941–58). On network radio &in popular speeches, she warned against Hitler. Time magazine rated her the country’s second most popular woman..

#IDedicateThisWeekTo Ida Tarbell an American writer, investigative journalist, biographer and lecturer. She was one of the leading muckrakers of the progressive era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and pioneered investigative journalism.

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Born in PA at the onset of the oil boom, Tarbell is best known The History of the Standard Oil Company...This one masterpiece of investigative journalism would bring about the dissolution of Standard Oil as a monopoly and lead to the Clayton Antitrust Act.

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“Her book would also lead to the Hepburn Act in 1906 to oversee the railroads, the 1910 Mann-Elkins Act which gave the Interstate Commerce Commission power over oil rates, and the creation of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in 1914.”