Changing Charlotte

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard A. Rosen ◽  
Joseph Mosnier
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
School System ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Major Step ◽  
The Public ◽  
Racial Conflict ◽  
Mecklenburg County ◽  
National Media ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Time Position

Chapter 5 focuses on Chambers's impact on his new hometown, Charlotte. Chambers worked easily and well with the city's two leading civil rights figures, state NAACP director Kelly Alexander, Sr., and Rev. Dr. Reginald Hawkins, who was both younger and more convinced of the usefulness of protest and direct confrontation. In a major step, Chambers renewed litigation to desegregate the Charlotte-Mecklenburg County school system. He meanwhile led a successful effort to force desegregation of a popular high school all-star football game held annually in Charlotte. Although Chambers and Charlotte's handful of additional black attorneys were mostly shunned by the city's white lawyers, U.S. District Judge J. Braxton Craven Jr., impressed by Chambers's talent, appointed Chambers to the part-time position of U.S. Commissioner. Press coverage brought Chambers increasingly into the public eye. In November of 1965, Chambers was again the target of racist violence when his home, and those of Alexander, Alexander's brother, and Hawkins, were attacked with dynamite. National media coverage of the bombings threatened the image of Charlotte crafted by white elites as a moderate, business-friendly city largely free of racial conflict.

scholarly journals Overview of physical therapy graduation courses in Brazil: current scenario

2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 661-669 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Baroni de Góes ◽  
Francisca Rêgo Oliveira de Araújo ◽  
Amélia Pasqual Marques ◽  
Ana Carolina Basso Schmitt
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Physical Therapy ◽  
School System ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
The Public ◽  
Brazil Current ◽  
Current Scenario ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Academic Organization ◽  
Consequent Increase

Abstract Introduction: After the regulation of Physical Therapy (PT) in 1969, there were only six undergraduate courses in Brazil. In the 90s, higher education underwent major expansion in all professions and the same occurred to PT, with consequent increase in the number of professionals in the labor market and privatization of education. Objective: To describe the current situation of PT courses in Brazil offered by Higher Education Institutions (IES). Methods: The data for the region, academic organization, situation, period, school system, administrative category, vacancies, course hours and duration were obtained from the website of the Ministry of Education (MEC) and refer to the year of 2013. The descriptive analyzes of central tendency, dispersion and percentage were performed in Stata 9®. Results: From the total of 550 IES registered in the MEC, 281 (51%) were in the Southeast. Regarding the academic organization, 341 (62%) corresponded to universities and 483 (87.9%) of the IES were private. Of the courses, 521 (94.7%) are active, the predominant school system was the semiannual (91.5%) and 438 were part-time. The average vacancies authorized by the IES were 129 ± 102, with at least 44,900 vacancies available in the country. Of the courses, 75% had 4,000 hours of duration with the minimum of seven semesters and a maximum of fourteen. Conclusion: The data show a higher offer of PT courses in the private sector compared to the public. There was a progressive concentration of courses and vacancies in the Southeast, especially in São Paulo.

scholarly journals Under The Spotlight: The Impact of Media Attention on Protest Policing

1999 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominique Wisler ◽  
Marco Giugni
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Blind Spot ◽  
The Public ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
Protest Policing ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Impact

Explanations of protest policing have neglected the "spotlight of the media." Based on data on repression and its media coverage in four Swiss cities from 1965 to 1994, our findings suggest that the mass media do have an impact on levels and forms of repression, along with political opportunity dimensions and levels of disruption. We identify two mechanisms. First, we show that the symbolic battles waged by protest groups and their outcomes affect the level of repression these groups face. More specifically, depending on whether the civil-rights or the law-and-order scenario wins in the public sphere, the police adopt different postures when facing disorders. Second, the police are also shown to be vulnerable to an increase of media attention during a protest campaign. When protest becomes a blind spot in the public sphere, repression increases.

Censorship?

1977 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 55-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart Hampshire ◽  
Louis Blom-Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Third World ◽  
Controversial Subject ◽  
The Public ◽  
Racial Conflict ◽  
Private Citizen ◽  
Stuart Hampshire ◽  
Government Secrecy ◽  
Privacy And Confidentiality

What is censorship? Who is qualified to act as a censor and what right has he to prevent his fellow-citizens from receiving information, reading certain books or seeing certain films? What is wrong with the Official Secrets Act, and what are the limits of justified government secrecy? On the other hand, has the public a right to be protected against' offensive' matter which might otherwise be thrust upon it; and if so, should it be the private citizen who has to take legal action, as opposed to official intervention? The problems of privacy and confidentiality … the rights of the citizen in a democratic society … what are the rights of citizens in Third World countries with grave problems of poverty, political instability, racial conflict, and corruption … These and similar questions on a highly controversial subject are dealt with here by two members of our Editorial Board. Asked by Index to discuss censorship and to put their often divergent views, Stuart Hampshire, philosopher, critic, and Warden of Wadham College, Oxford, and the distinguished lawyer, Louis Blom-Cooper, QC, well known for his involvement in civil rights cases and his interest in South Africa, met in the peaceful atmosphere of the College to record a discussion, of which this is an edited version which we hope will provide food for thought and argument.

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