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Washington Journal: Democracy Summer 2001
A challenge to the Asian American community
By Phil Tajtisu Nash
In 1963, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. reminded us that there is an important distinction between a “negative peace,” which is an absence of tension, and a “positive peace,” which is the presence of justice.
King’s words, and the actions of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), helped to galvanize hundreds of students and young adults of all backgrounds to go to Mississippi in what has been called the Freedom Summer of 1964. Young idealists confronted the institutions of segregation by registering African Americans to vote, setting up Freedom Schools, and organizing the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) to challenge the segregated Mississippi Democratic Party.
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Businesswoman made illegal contributions to Democrats.
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DNC Chairman Terry McAuliffe meets with API leaders at a Democratic party convention.
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Asian values under fire. |
