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Published 10:00 AM The National Portrait Gallery in 2010. The building is currently closed to visitors until further notice due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Photo by Wally Gobetz via Flickr. Content warning: mentions of sexual assault, racism “This selection of portraits seeks to inspire learning and inquiry through the celebration of women, whose stories are often unsung or missing from the written record,” the opening blurb to the exhibition. The National Portrait Gallery brought Women’s History Month to a close with a special exhibit arranged by Google Arts and Culture celebrating trailblazing American women. Portraits of women, lined up in a slideshow, come and go with a click of a button, sometimes interspersed with headings designating the theme of smaller collections.
Shelia Washington Dies at 61; Helped Exonerate Scottsboro Boys She fought for decades to get their names cleared from an egregious injustice in the Jim Crow South, and created a museum in their honor. Shelia Washington in an undated photo at the spot where the Scottsboro Boys were arrested. She recognized that their story was an important milestone in the annals of civil rights, and was determined that it be remembered. “The story dies if we don’t tell it,” she said.Credit...William H. Hampton Published Feb. 26, 2021Updated Feb. 27, 2021 Shelia Washington was cleaning her parents’ room at their home in Scottsboro, Ala., in the 1970s when she discovered a paperback book hidden in a pillowcase underneath the bed.
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Jerry Summers: The Bravest Judge In Legal History Monday, December 28, 2020 - by Jerry Summers Jerry Summers Most of the legal decisions that establish new precedents or expansion of civil liberties are usually handed down by appellate judges and not by trial judges. The reasons for this are numerous: 1. Appellate judges are usually removed from the local notoriety of highly sensational cases. They normally hear cases at some distance from the actual trial. The hearings at which attorneys argue the merits of a conviction are usually poorly attended in contrast to the actual trial in the community where the alleged crime took place.
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