by Rich Wandschneider | Jan 20, 2025 | Civil Rights Act of 1964, Civil Rights Movement, martin luther king, Peace Corps, Robert F. Kennedy, Vietnam, Vietnam legacy
In a brief essay in Sunday’s (January 19) Washington Post, Jonathan Eig, author of “King: A Life,” winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for biography, writes: “We can begin by remembering that, until his death in 1968, King had never gained the approval of most White...
by Rich Wandschneider | May 27, 2022 | African Americans, Allotment Act, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Civil War, Code Talker, colonialism, Dawes Act, Supreme Court, white supremacy
Men! And, yes mostly white men of Anglo descent, the ones who took Indian lands away with treaties and wars, lies, legislation, disease, and depleting food stocks, who brought the slaves and wrote the Constitution and engaged in a Civil War over Black men and women as...
by Rich Wandschneider | Mar 15, 2021 | 1855 treaty, Chief Joseph, Civil Rights, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Nez Perce treaty, Nez Perce Tribe, Wallowa, wallowa homeland, women’s rights
Our national founding documents talk about all men being created “equal,” and many see the history of the country as a gradual expansion of “all men” to include black men—14th Amendment, 1868; women—19th Amendment, 1920; and, in 1924, when they were finally given...
by Rich Wandschneider | Nov 7, 2016 | Boldt decision, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Justice Marshall, limited sovereignty, President Johnson
I’ve been voting for 50 years—Johnson was my first Presidential pick in 1964. And yes, I’ve learned much about that strong-arming, deal-making, womanizing, self-agrandizing, Vietnam-failing President over the years. He had all of those negative qualities and more, and...
