Cairo, Illinois: Racism at Floodtide, Volúmenes43-48U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 1973 - 93 páginas |
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Página 10 - A dismal swamp, on which the half-built houses rot away : cleared here and there for the space of a few yards ; and teeming, then, with rank unwholesome vegetation, in whose baleful shade the wretched wanderers who are tempted hither, droop, and die, and lay their bones...
Página 49 - I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.
Página 10 - At the junction of the two rivers, on ground so flat and low and marshy that at certain seasons of the year it is inundated to the house-tops, lies a breeding-place of fever, ague, and death; vaunted in England as a mine of Golden Hope, and speculated in, on the faith of monstrous representations, to many people's ruin.
Página 10 - ... unwholesome vegetation, in whose baleful shade the wretched wanderers who are tempted hither, droop, and die, and lay their bones; the hateful Mississippi circling and eddying before it, and turning off upon its southern course a slimy monster hideous to behold ; a hotbed of disease, an ugly sepulchre, a grave uncheered by any gleam of promise; a place without one single quality, in earth or air or water, to commend it; such is this dismal Cairo.
Página 43 - ... certainly an emergency exists. Strict adherence to the guidelines by management and store owners, with the burden of enforcement, not upon the recipients, but upon the Federal and State agencies. Desegregation of county welfare offices which, as part of these programs, receive Federal money and are in violation of title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The General Board of the National Council of Churches, on December 9, 1960, in a resolution on "Ethical Issue in the International Age of Agriculture,"...
Página 34 - ... officers when a question arose as to the proper use and disposition of the funds. The power of visitation, therefore, pertained to the supervision and regulation of the work and purpose of the charity, while the court of equity, not as a visitor but in its inherent power over trusts, assumed jurisdiction to determine whether the funds were being spent in accordance with the trust and purpose of the charity.
Página 12 - Advisory Committee to the US Commission on Civil Rights held an open meeting in...
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Página 8 - Early in the morning of the 20th of March (1833) we approached the mouth of the Ohio, where it falls into the Mississippi, 959 miles from Pittsburgh, and 129% miles from St. Louis. The tongue of land on the right, which separates the two rivers, was, like the whole of the country, covered with rich woods, which were partly cleared, and a few houses erected, with an inn and a store, and the dwelling of a planter, where we took in wood . . . the settlement, at which we now were, has no other name than...
Página 8 - ... colour, and a race of large long-legged sheep were grazing on it. We lay to for the night. Early in the morning of the 2oth of March we approached the mouth of the Ohio, where it falls into the Mississippi, 959 miles from Pittsburg, and 129! miles from St. Louis. The tongue of land on the right, which separates the two rivers, was, like the whole of the country, covered with rich woods, which were partly cleared, and a few houses erected, with an inn and store, and the dwelling of a planter,...