The House moved Monday to mark 50th anniversary of desegregation: coin

[mom cat]

House Votes for Coin Commemorating Little Rock School Desegregation
The Associated Press
Published: Jun 27, 2005






http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBQDV78HAE.html

WASHINGTON (AP) - The House moved Monday to mark the 50th anniversary of desegregation at Little Rock Central High School with a commemorative silver coin.
Integration at the Arkansas high school in 1957 was the first major test of the Supreme Court's ruling, three years earlier, against racial discrimination in public schools. The landmark civil rights case, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kan., called such segregation unconstitutional.

The House, by voice vote, authorized the U.S. Treasury to mint commemorative $1 coins in 2007, a half-century after nine black students became the first admitted to the high school under escort by U.S. Army troops.

"The 1957 crisis in Little Rock, brought about by the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, was a huge part of the march toward freedom and opportunity in America," said bill sponsor Rep. Vic Snyder, D-Ark.

[DRoseDARs]

1. I wonder how many Senators stood in the way to block this motion... n/t

[meganmonkey]

2. How does moving Monday address desegregation?

And where are they gonna put it? After Wednesday? It'll throw everything off!

(sorry - they headline really messed with me, I had to read a couple times to figure it out)

Seriously - I think this is a nice gesture, FWIW, and this is something that should be commemorated. And it's much better than a Reagan coin!

[mom cat]

4. I hope it's circulates too. I can still remember the 1957 decision and

how it infuriated my racist family! I think I would have a lot of pride in the coin if it comes to be. A lot more still needs to be done, but it would be good to commemorate the fact that something happened back then, something to be proud of.

[Hekate]

3. I hope this means the coins will actually be in circulation

I'm a little confused by their terminology, but would actually like to see this coin circulate -- that way people will actually be reminded of the events and the coins won't all be squirreled away in envelopes. OTOH, we just got Sacajawea and Child on the dollar coin -- what about them? Is the dollar ending up as a format for successive honorees?

Hekate

[Richard Steele]

6. If it's silver, it won't be circulated, just a "collectable".

[Kraklen]

5. I wonder what the design would be.

I dare nominate the little girl from the Rockwell painting...

[Endangered Specie]

7. Speaks volumes right there, doesnt it.

some land of opprotunity eh?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

8. Norman Rockwell? The "Stupidly Smiling Father-Knows-Best Family" painter?

Wow!

[Straight Shooter]

9. You would be amazed at what Rockwell painted.

Somebody help out Commie Pinko Dirtbag ( :7 ) and provide a link to the Mississippi murder painting by Rockwell, cuz I've got to get back to work.

[Kraklen]

11. Don't confuse his Saturday Evening Post cheese...

with the painter. There was a thread on this piece during the Killen trial:



covering the murders themselves.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

12. Holy. Fucking. Shit.

:wow:

[Kraklen]

13. I think Rockwell's fans were his own worst enemies.

They only liked and remember the Saturday Evening Post stuff. So they copied his style, his lines, his forms, his subjects- and they turned it from everyday family stuff into horrible kitsch. It spawned a million Thomas Kinkades. Making Rockwell look like the purveyor of "Jesus Carried Me On The Beach" "Little Boy Kissing Little Girl" diabetes-inducing crap.

[Kraklen]

14. Not that Norman Rockwell was above kitsch.

But he did it well. He did it honestly. It had humanity.

[VegasWolf]

10. Voice vote, this way none of the Southern Republicans are on record.nt