<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Civil Rights</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/specials/civilrights?nav=rss_politics/specials/civilrights</link><description>Civil Rights</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Powells Honored for Exemplifying King Legacy]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16371-2005Jan17.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/civilrights</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16371-2005Jan17.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/civilrights</guid><pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2005 4:33:57 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[President Bush paid tribute Monday to two of America's most recognizable and politically influential black leaders of the past half-century -- the late Martin Luther King Jr. and retiring Secretary of State Colin L. Powell -- at a Kennedy Center event honoring the life and legacy of the civil rights leader.]]></description><author> Jim VandeHei</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reopened  Cases Evoke A Painful Past]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61795-2005Jan9.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/civilrights</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61795-2005Jan9.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/civilrights</guid><pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2005 4:33:57 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The case of Edgar Ray Killen embodies an archetype on the verge of extinction. It will likely be one of the last of its kind: the blockbuster southern murder trial looking back to the civil rights era.]]></description><author> Manuel Roig-Franzia</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cosby Reignites Debate]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24594-2004Jul2.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/civilrights</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24594-2004Jul2.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/civilrights</guid><pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2005 4:33:57 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[For the second time in six weeks, comedy legend Bill Cosby attracted wide media attention with public criticism of black youngsters in a speech Thursday before a group of African American activists in Chicago.]]></description><author> Hamil R. Harris  and Paul Farhi</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maynard H. Jackson Dies;  Atlanta's 1st Black Mayor]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22513-2003Jun23.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/civilrights</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22513-2003Jun23.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/civilrights</guid><pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2005 4:33:57 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Maynard H. Jackson Jr., 65, whose election as mayor of Atlanta in 1973 helped signal a shift of urban U.S. political power to black leaders, collapsed at Reagan National Airport on June 23 and died of a heart attack soon after at Virginia Hospital Center-Arlington.]]></description><author> Claudia Levy</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[King's Widow, Bush Apply Rights Leader's Legacy to Today]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17627-2003Jan20.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/civilrights</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17627-2003Jan20.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/civilrights</guid><pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2005 4:33:57 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[As the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.s widow called on world leaders to settle their differences peacefully, especially to avoid a painful war in Iraq, President Bush reflected on Kings spiritual side.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vermont's Abenaki Fight for Recognition]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23896-2002Dec7.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/civilrights</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23896-2002Dec7.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/civilrights</guid><pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2005 4:33:57 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Four centuries after the European settlers washed over their ancestral lands in northern Vermont, the Abenakis -- a Native American tribe nearly lost to assimilation and intermarriage -- are seeking official recognition from the federal government.]]></description><author> Michael Powell</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Harvard Secretly Expelled Gays in 1920]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57942-2002Nov30.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/civilrights</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57942-2002Nov30.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/civilrights</guid><pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2005 4:33:57 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In 1920, Harvard University convened a secret court that expelled seven college students from Cambridge for being "guilty" of homosexuality.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA['America's Largest Problem' Is Hate, President Tells Gay Group]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12915-1999Oct3.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/civilrights</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12915-1999Oct3.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/civilrights</guid><pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2005 4:33:57 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Preaching the cause of tolerance, President Clinton tonight told hundreds of gay and lesbian supporters gathered here that it is time for the nation to rise up more vigorously against all forms of hate, which he called "America's largest problem."]]></description><author> Rene Sanchez</author></item></channel></rss>