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CIVIL RIGHTS SUMMIT
Clinton blasts ‘restrictive’ voter ID laws By Julia Brouillette & Amanda Voeller @thedailytexan
Civil rights icons relate dangers of social shifts By Alyssa Mahoney
Former President Bill Clinton emphasized the issue of voter ID laws during his speech Wednesday at the Civil Rights Summit, saying they disenfranchise voters and do not align with the goals of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Clinton also said students should be able to use their student IDs to vote. “Here in Texas, the concealed carry permit counts, but there’s one photo ID that doesn’t count: one from a Texas institution of higher education,” Clinton said at the Lady Bird Johnson Auditorium. “This is a way of restricting the franchise after 50 years of expanding it.” Clinton, who was the second president to appear at the summit after former President Jimmy Carter spoke on Tuesday evening, said the U.S.’s voting laws impair some people’s
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On May 4, 1961, a few months before President Barack Obama was born, John Lewis and the rest of Freedom Riders were prepared to die as they rode public buses through the deep South to protest segregation. “Some of us signed notes and wills that, if it took our death — as Dr. King said — to redeem the soul of America, I think that some of us were prepared,” Lewis, who is now a Democratic U.S. representative from Georgia, said at a Civil Rights Summit panel on Wednesday. “I thought I was going to die on that bridge [during the march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., in 1965]. I thought I saw death, but I was not afraid.”
Guests of the Public Affairs Alliance for Communities of Color watch a live stream of former President Bill Clinton’s speech on Wednesday evening at a watch party at Scholz Garten.
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Athletes link childhood to drive for change By Stefan Scrafield @StefanScrafield
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Joseph Califano Jr., special assistant to former President Lyndon Johnson, speaks at a panel at the Civil Rights Summit on Wednesday.
LBJ, MLK relationship unfazed by civil rights By Alyssa Mahoney @TheAlyssaM
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and former President Lyndon B. Johnson had an amicable relationship, even as King and others pressured Johnson to introduce new civil rights legislation, according to Andrew Young, former United Nations ambassador. The second day of the Civil Rights Summit began with the “LBJ and MLK: Fulfilling a Promise, Realizing a Dream”
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panel, a discussion that featured Young, as well as LBJ’s special assistant Joseph Califano Jr. and historians Taylor Branch and Doris Kearns Goodwin. “[Johnson originally] said,
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Bill Russell and Jim Brown were already utilizing their status as high profile athletes to strengthen the civil rights movement in their early 20s — the same age as many of today’s college students. At the Civil Rights Summit on Wednesday, Russell, Brown and Harry Edwards, sociology professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, noted that the two athletes’ opportunity to contribute to the movement at such a young age came as a result of their strong upbringings. “I was very fortunate to have a great mother, a great coach, Ed Walsh, and a great mentor, Kenny Molloy,” Brown said. “They were impeccable from the standpoint of advocating education and self-determination. Because I was helped at a young age, I knew my life’s work would be to help others.” The two influential African-American athletes continually cited parental leadership throughout their
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From left: Jim Brown and Bill Russell, high profile athletes during the civil rights movement, spoke in a panel alongside Harry Edwards, sociology professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, during the Civil Rights Summit on Wednesday afternoon.
childhood as the source of their confidence and desire to advocate change. “The first thing I knew about life was my mother and father loved me,” Russell said. “My mother, in her first conversation with me, said, ‘There’s nobody on this planet better than you. Also, there’s nobody that you’re
better than them.’” Brown, a three-time NFL MVP, said there had never been a time in his life when he was unaware of the civil rights movement. He said he has long supported the notion that the key to the movement’s success was economic development in the African-
American community. “I was always a person that advocated economic development because America is a capitalist society,” Brown said. “That was the way I felt we could gain equality quicker than doing anything else.”
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Students rally against immigrant deportation By Adam Hamze @adamhamz
The University Leadership Initiative held a rally Wednesday in front of the Martin Luther King Jr. statue on the East Mall to show support for immigrants who have been deported. Rally representatives said the ideals of the Civil Rights Summit do not align with current U.S. policy toward undocumented immigrants.
Students involved in the rally held a number of signs, one of which said “we have a dream 2,” and chained themselves to the statue. Rhetoric and writing sophomore Maria Reza said the group gathered because it believes the discussions at the summit need to better acknowledge the rights of undocumented immigrants. “As we talk right now, families are being separated — deportations are happening,”
Reza said In 2012, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the investigative arm of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security commonly known as ICE, announced the U.S. had deported a total of 409,849 immigrants — the largest number in the agency’s history. Engineering sophomore Juan Belman, who said his father is at risk of deportation, said Austin needs to show support for families who have
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to deal with deportation. “If we are a progressive community here in Austin, we need to show that,” Belman said. “We need to show Texas how to move forward.” According to ICE, 2,614
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Patrick Frerro sits chained around a statue of Martin Luther King Jr. as part of a rally held by the University Leadership Initiative on Wednesday afternoon.
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