Volume 16 , Issue 6

Walking With Sadie

Since last week, we have received over 17 inches of snow here at Vallecito Lake, north end of CR 500, Bayfield, Colorado. We have been reading about the cold, icy conditions that have been passing through Oklahoma and Missouri, also.

This week as this Sadie Pug resigns to the inside of the cabin, with over a foot of snow piled outside, we bring you some history of fifty years ago, when Beatlemania came to the United States and the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Fifty years ago there was the 1964 Civil Rights Act that President Johnson pushed through Congress. It was the Nation's benchmark civil rights legislation and it continues to resonate in America. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

Passage of the Act ended the application of Jim Crow laws, which had been upheld by the Supreme Court in the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson, in which the Court held that racial segregation purported to be "separate but equal" was constitutional. The Civil Rights Act was eventually expanded by Congress to strengthen enforcement of these fundamental civil rights.

Speaking of civil rights, we hear there are those in Enid, Oklahoma that stick their heads in the sand when discrimination of "Civil Rights concerning race, color, religion, sex or national origin" is taking place at a certain restaurant & bar (Gary's Chicaro's).

At the end of the article above there is a link to the Oklahoma Attorney General's office, if you feel that you are the victim of civil rights discrimination. Do not be afraid to speak out! You can contact the your Attorney General's office!

When do citizens in that community take their heads out of the sand and do something about it?

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