UVA creates Julian Bond professorship for civil rights education
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The late Julian Bond was one of the most prominent social justice advocates to emerge from the Civil Rights Movement.
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Civil rights complaint challenges discrimination Richmond Public Schools
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Two students and the local branch of the NAACP have filed an anti-discrimination complaint against Richmond Public Schools.
McAuliffe announces process for case-by-case restoration of former-felons’ civil rights
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Governor Terry McAuliffe and his team have begun restoring the civil rights of former Virginia felons in compliance with a court order.
Ken Plum: Two civil rights heroes
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Last week gave me an opportunity to see another of my civil rights heroes, former governor Linwood Holton.
Obenshain comments on governor’s action on civil rights restoration
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Senator Mark Obenshain issued a statement in response to the Governor’s action to restore the civil rights of over 200,000 convicted felons.
McAuliffe restores voting, civil rights to 200,000 Virginians
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Governor Terry McAuliffe today restored the voting and civil rights of more than 200,000 Virginians who were convicted of felonies.
UVA President Teresa Sullivan on U.S. Office for Civil Rights Compliance Review
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As you may be aware, UVA is one of more than 130 institutions under review by the US Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) regarding compliance with Title IX requirements on sexual assault. That review concluded today with the issuance of OCR’s findings regarding UVA and the University’s signing of a resolution agreement.
Civil rights pioneer Julian Bond dies at 75
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Civil rights pioneer and former UVA history professor Julian Bond passed away on Saturday after a brief illness. Bond, 75, was a founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, a key organization in the 1960s civil rights movement, and later was a Georgia state legislator, a founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center and president of the NAACP.
UVA oral history project finding unique vantage point of civil rights era teachers
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Civil rights leader Gardner C. Taylor, a close friend of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., died in March at the age of 96. His death is a poignant reminder to scholars working to preserve the stories of civil rights leaders that time is short.
Civil rights symposium Feb. 19-20 at Washington and Lee
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Hina Shamsi, director of the ACLU’s National Security Project, will be the Friday luncheon keynote speaker at a symposium on the 50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and The Voting Rights Act of 1965: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue on Feb. 19-20.
