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January 10,2007
2007 sp e c ia l edition
T I f we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the
right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war. |
In Memphis, after violence breaks out for the first time in a march led by King, sanitation workers maintain a
picket line alongside National Guard armored vehicles.
Activist Advances
Local, Political Causes
continued
Institutional
racism is our
biggest problem.
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One of her first jobs in Or
egon was working for Bev Stein,
who was the chairof Multnomah
Board of Commissioners at the
time, which was the largest in
fluence on her next decision.
“I saw her and 1 thought I can
do this!”
Bowman ran for State Rep
resentative in northeast Port
land after that, “And I won!”
She remembers elective of
fice as one of the most reward
ing jobs she has ever had.
“The hours were terrible, the
pay was awful, but I came home
- Portland activist Jo Ann Bowman
knowing that I had impacted to me,” Bowman says.
“Institutional racism is our
other people’s lives,” she says.
U ltim ate ly , in flu e n cin g biggest problem. Our country
people’s lives and uniting the isn't a huge melting pot of dif
community is what Bowman ferent ethnicities or a tossed
salad of immigrants, unless we
lives for.
“Even though we are fighting address racism as a country, as
a different war today, Martin an issue, inequality will continue
Luther King’s words come back to be created.”
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- Rev. Or. Martin Luther King Jr.
Soldiers in Detroit are deployed to suppress one o f several large ghetto race
hots in the summer o f 1967.
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