A.G. GancarskiDecember 30, 2023
3min0
'I know there's not everyone that is willing to admit that anymore, but that's just the reality.'
Tag: Dred Scott
A.G. GancarskiDecember 30, 2023
Jac VerSteegJune 28, 20157min243
It’s hard to be a straight-down-the-line Catholic and maintain logical consistency. It’s easier to be a cafeteria Catholic, picking and choosing which church positions to embrace. It’s even easier to be – as I am – a cafeteria non-Catholic; we don’t have to feel guilty about diverging from the Vatican’s official line. The Most Rev. […]
Mitch PerryJune 26, 2015
6min221
Rick Santorum isn’t the only social conservative Republican comparing the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision Friday effectively legalizing same-sex marriage to the Dred Scott decision. The 1857 ruling by the high court that found that blacks were not American citizens. “Regardless of how it appears, today’s decision is not the final word on marriage,” John Stemberger […]
Darryl PaulsonSeptember 5, 20135min183
For 35 years I taught courses about Florida and Southern Politics. A great portion of those courses dealt with the issues of race and segregation. The struggle to end segregation and provide civil rights for all Americans was long and bitter. The Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s and the passage of the […]