Negro Caucus - 1871: South Carolina House (depicted at the 1h54m00s mark)

Scenes from Birth of A Nation by D.W. Griffith, 1915
view online at: http://www.archive.org/details/dw_griffith_birth_of_a_nation
Birth of a Nation, (1915) movie: 3h23s
scene descriptions source: http://intertitleorama.webs.com/birthofanation.html
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Excerpts from Woodrow Wilson's "History of the American People" 1908, Harper in New York, London: 
(read online at http://ia600500.us.archive.org/17/items/histampeople01wilsrich/histampeople01wilsrich_djvu.txt)
"..... Adventurers swarmed out of the North, as much enemies of the one race as of the other, to cozen, beguile, and use the negroes..... In the villages the negroes were the office holders, men who knew none of the uses of authority, except its insolences."
-- WOODROW WILSON
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".... The policy of the congressional leaders wrought ... a veritable overthrow of civilization in the South ..... in their determination to 'put the white South under the heel of the black South.'"
-- WOODROW WILSON
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"The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation ..... until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country."
-- WOODROW WILSON
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The riot in the Master's Hall. The Negro party in control in the State House of Representatives, 101 blacks against 23 whites, session of 1871. AN HISTORICAL FACSIMILE of the State House of Representatives of South Carolina as it was in 1870. After photograph by "The Columbia State"
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Historic incidents from the first legislative session under Reconstruction.
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The honorable member for Ulster.
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The speaker rules that all members must wear shoes.
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It is moved and carried that all whites must salute negro officers on the streets.
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The helpless white minority.
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White visitors in the gallery.
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Passage of a bill, providing for the intermarriage of blacks and whites.

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o'sign - in Alabama

From: lc Sent: Friday, August 26, 2011 Subject:  New Sign in Alabama

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values - Bloomberg Bans Clergy for 9/11

article source: http://www.conservativeactionalerts.com/2011/08/bloombergs-911-exclusion-spurs-outrage/

From: ConservativeActionAlerts  Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 Subject: AUGUST 24: Bloomberg Bans Clergy for 9/11

Bloomberg's 9/11 Exclusion Spurs Outrage

by admin on August 24, 2011

     Religious leaders are calling on Mayor Michael Bloomberg to reverse course and offer clergy a role in the ceremony commemorating the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.

     Rudy Washington, a deputy mayor in former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's administration, said he's outraged.  Mr. Washington organized an interfaith ceremony at Yankee Stadium shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

     "This is America, and to have a memorial service where there's no prayer, this appears to be insanity to me," said Mr. Washington, who has suffered severe medical problems connected to the time he spent at Ground Zero. "I feel like America has lost its way."

     City Hall officials, who are coordinating the ceremony, confirmed that spiritual leaders will not participate this year - just as has been the case during past events marking the anniversary.  The mayor has said he wants the upcoming event to strike a similar tone as previous ceremonies.

     "There are hundreds of important people that have offered to participate over the last nine years, but the focus remains on the families of the thousands who died on Sept. 11," said Evelyn Erskine, a mayoral spokeswoman.

     But the mayor's plans this year have drawn increased scrutiny and some disapproval, as the event will attract an international audience and President Barack Obama will attend.

     New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has publicly criticized the mayor about the list of speakers, and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has quietly sought to play a larger role.

     But the exclusion of religious leaders has struck some as particularly glaring.

     City Council Member Fernando Cabrera, a pastor at New Life Outreach International, a Bronx church, said he is "utterly disappointed" and "shocked" by the event's absence of clergy.   When the terrorist attacks occurred, people in the city and nationwide turned to spiritual leaders for guidance, he said.

This article was written by MICHAEL HOWARD SAUL; full article at WALL STREET JOURNAL

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