Chronicling a Movement for Civil Rights

Chronicling a Movement for Civil Rights

The Promise of Civil Society: a Global Movement for Communication Rights

The essays in this issue are based on a research colloquium that took place on 5±7 May 2003 in the cities of Padova and Venice, Italy. Sponsored by the University of Padova, the colloquium theme was `Information Society Visions and Governance: the World Summit on the Information Society and Beyond'. The event was intended to serve as an opportunity for communication policy researchers to gather...

Sociological Meta-Analysis of Civil Rights

Introduction: Citizenship rights is a set of rules governing society in relation to politics, institutions, governments and civil society. The main purpose of this study is to investigate the factors affecting the awareness of citizenship rights using meta-analysis. Method: The mechanism of conducting research is meta-analysis-quantitative. The purpose of this method is to integrate, systemati...

"The Civil Rights Movement of the 1990s?": The anti-abortion movement and the struggle for racial justice.

In 1964, Claude and Jeanne Nolen, who were white, joined an interracial NAACP team intent on desegregating local restaurants in Austin, Texas as a test of the recently passed Civil Rights ACt. Twenty-five years later, the Nolens pleaded "no contest" in a courtroom for their continued social activism. This time the issue was not racial segregation, but rather criminal trespassing for blockading ...

Toward a New Civil Rights Framework

The problem of racial discrimination has reached a point of equipoise. When one examines closely the lived lives of citizens of color across some of the most pertinent evaluative domains, one clearly finds that citizens of color are not enjoying the full benefits of American citizenship. African Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans lag behind Whites and sometimes Asian Americans on almost a...