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Date: February 16, 2007 1:07:32 AM PST
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Subject: Will There Still Be a "United States" in 2061?
During the Centennial of the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865):
1961 Freedom Riders begin from Washington, D.C: Groups of black
and white people ride buses through the South to challenge
segregation.
1962 Two killed, many injured in riots as James Meredith is
enrolled as the first black at the University of Mississippi.
1963 Police arrest King and other ministers demonstrating in
Birmingham, Ala., then turn fire hoses and police dogs on the
marchers. Medgar Evers, NAACP leader, is murdered June 12 as he
enters his home in Jackson, Miss. 250,000 people attend the March
on Washington, D.C. urging support for pending civil-rights
legislation. The event was highlighted by King's "I have a dream"
speech. Four girls killed Sept. 15 in bombing of a Baptist Church
in Birmingham, Ala.
1964 Three civil-rights workers murdered in Mississippi.
President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act.
According to the latest US Census, 20% of all Virginians
are African-American (the national average is 12%), and nearly 60%
of the population in Richmond, Virginia, is African-American.
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=local&id=5036347
Virginia House panel sets aside
bicentennial tribute to Lincoln
Lawmakers: State doesn't need to form panel
for president's 200th birthday
BY PAMELA STALLSMITH
Richmond Times-Dispatch, February 15, 2007
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On the same grounds that once served as the Capitol of the
Confederacy, the past seeped into the present yesterday as a House
panel discussed Abraham Lincoln and slavery.
The House Rules Committee tabled a measure pushed by state Sen.
Henry L. Marsh III, D-Richmond, that sought to establish a
commission to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the 16th
president's birth, which will occur Feb. 12, 2009.
"Lincoln is regarded by many as the most outstanding president of
all time," Marsh told the committee, pointing out that the slain
leader's parents were born in Virginia.
A Richmond resident spoke against the commission, charging it
represents "historical myopia and amnesia at its worse" and
"kowtowing to the leader of Virginia's enemies."
Robert Lamb, a lawyer and member of Sons of Confederate Veterans**
who said he was speaking as an individual, said Lincoln as U.S.
president during the Civil War sent armies into Virginia who "laid
waste to the land," among other grievances.
If anyone's 200th birthday should be honored, it should be that of
Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederate States of
America, who was born on June 3, 1808, said Lamb, who was wearing a
tie with a pattern of Confederate flags.
Congress created a federal commission seven years ago, and 10
states have established their own commissions to mark the
bicentennial of Lincoln's birth, said spokesman David Early. Most
states - including Virginia - have appointed liaisons to the
federal panel to help coordinate their own celebrations.
The state Senate unanimously approved the measure [earlier] this
month.
House Majority Leader H. Morgan Griffith, R-Salem, said he didn't
favor the resolution, but not because of Lamb's comments, which he
later called "just awful." The state should celebrate Lincoln's
birth along with the rest of the nation, he said.
"I don't know if we need a commission" since he wasn't a native
Virginian, he said of the Kentucky-born Lincoln, who launched his
political career in Illinois.
House Speaker William J. Howell, R-Stafford, said the three-year,
15-member commission "is perhaps a bit more than we need to do."
House Minority Leader Franklin P. Hall, D-Richmond, said the
commission's cost was minimal and reminded the GOP-controlled
committee that Lincoln "also happened to be a Republican."
SLAVERY APOLOGY
Also yesterday, one of two versions of what started as a slavery
apology moved forward.
The rules committee agreed to amend a bill of Marsh's that called
for the assembly to "acknowledge with contrition" the state's role
in slavery. The committee changed that measure to match a revised
and broader House version that calls for the legislature to express
"profound regret" for slavery and for "historic wrongs visited upon
native peoples."
Marsh said the broader version "dilutes the effects" of his
original proposal and said it likely will end up in a conference
committee.
JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION BACKED
Also yesterday, the rules committees endorsed a proposal that would
designate the third Saturday of every June as "Juneteenth Freedom
Day in Virginia" to celebrate the end of slavery.
Contact staff writer Pamela Stallsmith at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] or (804) 649-6746.
"The citizen-soldiers who fought for the Confederacy personified
the best qualities of America. The preservation of liberty and
freedom was the motivating factor in the South's decision to fight
the Second American Revolution. The tenacity with which
Confederate soldiers fought underscored their belief in the rights
guaranteed by the Constitution. These attributes are the
underpinning of our democratic society and the foundation on which
this nation was built."
http://www.scv.org/ [**Sons of Confederate Veterans website]
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