Kentucky's role in the Black Civil Rights experience.
Many of you may not have known that many Kentuckians played a role (both positive and negative) in the Civil Rights experience of the Black race. So in a week that gave us the movie Amazing Grace, which chronicled the story of slave abolitionists -- especially the British Commoner, William Wilberforce -- I give you Dyche's ... from Clay to Obama. Love one another, would you. And RESOLVE to judge people by the "contents of their character" and NOT their skin pigmentation.
Labels: Civil rights, Constitutional Rights, Personal Responsibility
posted by KYJurisDoctor at 9:55 AM
2 Comments:
Good piece... thanks for directing me to it.
BTW, he didn't mention him, but my favorite Clay is Cassius Clay of Richmond.
Not only did he believe in abolitionism, he was willing to fight for it and to almost die for the cause.
He was somewhat pompous so Lincoln sent him to Russia where some suggest he played an invaluable role in keeping Russia from siding with the confederates... some even suggest that this somehow impacted the outcome of the war... not a theory I subscribe to, mind you, but interesting.
Clay was also one of the key Republicans who consistently pressed Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
Yes, he missed Cassius Clay and I'm sure many others. But Kentucky's prominence in the African American experience is interesting, to say the least. Abraham Lincoln, Henry Clay, Justice Harlan, the Abolitionists of Berea, KY, etc. . Read about our nation's Capitol's nearly opposite role here.
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