Civil Rights Council was a pilot program in the 8th Congressional District of Massachusetts with 1,700 members.
Read more about Civil Rights Council: Background, Call To Action, Mission Statement, Policy Positions, Political Positions, Dissolution
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“What I fear is being in the presence of evil and doing nothing. I fear that more than death.”
—Otilia De Koster, Panamanian civil rights monitor. As quoted in Newsweek magazine, p. 15 (December 19, 1988)
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—Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)
“Parental attitudes have greater correlation with pupil achievement than material home circumstances or variations in school and classroom organization, instructional materials, and particular teaching practices.”
—Children and Their Primary Schools, vol. 1, ch. 3, Central Advisory Council for Education, London (1967)