Council on American Islamic Relations Reports Rise in Civil Rights Complaints
Before the Civil Rights Movement in the United States in and around the 1960’s, much of the prejudice that was being addressed by activism groups, and consequently by the government, was the injustices that African-Americans were facing in the US in that era.
However, with the diversifying population of the country, and increasing immigration numbers, in a post-9/11-America, there is on the the rise other groups towards whom discrimination is being aimed. Today, the Council on American Islamic Relations announced through their statistics that from 2006-2008, they saw an 11% rise in civil rights complaints against these said citizens.
The full report, the US Muslim Civil rights report, documents civil rights discriminatory instances, anti-Muslim violence, and harassment.
While the journey that students embark on through Sojourn to the Past highlights the key benchmarks of the Civil Rights Movement that happened long before any of these students were born, it’s important to note the goals and mission of our organization. It is our aim that through teaching students about past wrongs and injustices that were allowed to carry on far too long in our great nation of freedom, that they can become active members of their communities to proactively and nonviolently confront injustices off all kinds – be they rooted in race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, or any identifying characteristic that should not only be accepted in our society, but embraced as uniquely American.
Tags: civil rights, civil rights education, sojourn to the past
