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During a panel discussion called "The Churches and the Movement," Minister Don Muhammad of Roxbury's Muhammad Mosque #11 stressed that the movement brought about protective laws, but the struggle didn't end there. The black community still has a civic duty to make sure these laws are implemented and enforced by elected officials, Muhammad said, noting that we "will never solve this problem unless we realize that everyone is God's children" - and the laws should protect everyone.
"I'm amazed that so many young people in Boston are not aware of where we have come from," said [Michael E. Haynes]. "Many of them don't understand that 35 or 40 years ago, I couldn't walk or ride through South Boston the way you do today. You could not attend the annual Bunker Hill parade in Charlestown 35 or 40 years ago and expect to be safe as they may feel today. We have to help our young people understand ... [because] if not, the less they will understand the role they must play on behalf of the cause of black people in our nation.""All of what we have achieved has come through court action. It's not through fairness," [Leonard Alkins] said. "But until we can start electing our own officials and impacting legislation, we're going to continue having problems. Until we take hold of our own destiny, nothing's going to change much. You may win one here, but you'll lose three over there."See the full content of this document
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Remembering the Civil Rights Movement
When Alan Gartner quipped, "History is a funny thing," not a soul in the room laughed.
In town last Saturday for a symposium on Boston's civil rights legacy held at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Museum and Library, the current chief of staff for New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former executive with the National Congress of Racial Equality broke down perceptions of the past into three categories."There's what really happened, what we rememb...See the full content of this document
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