Civil Rights

This is what it takes to bring me back

August 5, 2010
By Robert Rouse
This is what it takes to bring me back

To begin, here is the gist of the story as reported by Time.com. Anthony Graber, a Maryland Air National Guard staff sergeant, faces up to 16 years in prison. His crime? He videotaped his March encounter with a state trooper who pulled him over for speeding on a motorcycle. Then Graber put the video...
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Civil disobedience

January 18, 2010
By Robert Rouse
Civil disobedience

On  April 12, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested in Birmingham, AL for contempt of court and parading without a permit.  At the time, King was representing the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.  Dr. King had started the SCLC with Rev. Joseph Lowery. While I never had the pleasure of meeting Dr. King...
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