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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.
from B13
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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