<![CDATA[The National Market Exchange - NMEX: Clifford Black's blogs]]> http://nationalmex.com/blog/owner/cbglox? http://nationalmex.com/blog/view/22287/cooper-jones-education-initiative Wed, 30 Mar 2016 10:40:19 -0400 http://nationalmex.com/blog/view/22287/cooper-jones-education-initiative <![CDATA[Cooper-Jones Education initiative]]>

  One more time we have the opportunity to take part in an event that will allow all who attend to give homage to the memory of those who have given their 'everything' to secure the greater good for the people that they love(d).  On April 6th, 2016, let each and every person, come out and participate in the Cooper-Jones Education initiative, as we use this time, to remember and acknowledge and say Thank You, to, Dr. Martin Luther King, State Representative Ulysses Jones (expired), and, State Representative Barbara Cooper for their service to this community.  The event location is:

The Teachers and Learning Academy

Street: 2485 Union Ave.
City/Town: Memphis TN. 38112
5:00pm-7:00pm

WEDNESDAY

APRIL 6, 2016

]]> Clifford Black http://nationalmex.com/blog/view/19287/march-on-washington-movement Thu, 03 Sep 2015 15:18:59 -0400 http://nationalmex.com/blog/view/19287/march-on-washington-movement <![CDATA[March on Washington Movement]]> Although African Americans had been legally freed from bondage, elevated to the status of citizens and the men "given" full voting rights at the end of the American Civil War, many continued to face economic and political repression. A system of legal discrimination, known as Jim Crow laws, were pervasive in the American South, ensuring that Black Americans remained second-class citizens. They experienced discrimination from businesses and governments, and in some places were prevented from voting through intimidation and violence.[12] Twenty-one states prohibited interracial marriage.[13]

The impetus for a march on Washington developed over a long period of time, and earlier efforts to organize such a demonstration included the March on Washington Movement of the 1940s. A. Philip Randolph—the president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, president of the Negro American Labor Council,[6] and vice president of the AFL-CIO—was a key instigator in 1941. With Bayard Rustin, Randolph called for 10,000 black workers to march on Washington, in protest of discriminatory hiring by U.S. military contractors and demanding an Executive Order.[14] Faced with a mass march scheduled for July 1, 1941, President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 8802 on June 25.[15] The order established the Committee on Fair Employment Practice and banning discriminatory hiring in the defense industry.[16] Randolph called off the March.[17]

Randolph and Rustin continued to organize around the idea of a mass march on Washington. They envisioned several large marches during the 1940s, but all were called off (despite criticism from Rustin).[18] Their Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom, held at the Lincoln Memorial on May 17, 1957, featured key leaders including Adam Clayton Powell

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