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The term race was subsequently employed in the Marchandeau decrees [N 5] of April 21, 1939, [14] [16] which were designed to restrict Nazi propaganda by imposing penalties on defamation in the press against "a group of persons belonging by their origin to a particular race or religion with the intent of inciting hatred among citizens." The ...
[22]: 212–213 BYU's dean of athletics Milton Hartvigsen called the Western Athletic Conference's 1969 criticism of BYU's ban on Black athletes bigotry towards a religious group, and the next month Wilkinson accused Stanford University of bigotry for refusing to schedule athletic events with BYU over its discrimination towards black athletes.
During this time, leaders in Mormonism's largest denomination—the LDS Church—taught that the restriction came from God and many leaders gave several race-based explanations for the ban, including a curse on Cain and his descendants, Ham's marriage to Egyptus, a curse on the descendants of Canaan, and that Black people were less valiant in ...
Part I, consisting of sections 101–106, establishes a six-member Civil Rights Commission in the executive branch to gather information on citizens' deprivation of voting rights based on color, race, religion, or national origin; in addition the legal background, the laws, and the policies of the federal government relating to voting rights.
The Constitution of 1958 guarantees citizens equal treatment despite origin, race or religion. [4] France was relatively early in history to have black people in a national parliament (1793, 1848 then 1891 and all years after) or in a government (1887, 1931, 1932–1933, 1937–1938), or as president of a house of parliament (1947–1968 in the ...
The word "race", interpreted to mean an identifiable group of people who share a common descent, was introduced into English in the 16th century from the Old French rasse (1512), from Italian razza: the Oxford English Dictionary cites the earliest example around the mid-16th century and defines its early meaning as a "group of people belonging to the same family and descended from a common ...
The Catholic Church has long had a troubled relationship with the Jewish faith, with Christians having a negative attitude towards Jews [4] and being extremely opposed to them, so much so that it can be noted that there was an extreme "level of hostility against Jews inculcated by the Church", [1]: 817 dating as far back as the sixteenth century, where “blood purity laws” [1]: 816 ...
Shreena Niketa Gandhi (born 1979) is an American historian of religion, race, and empire at Michigan State University. Gandhi’s research demonstrates how American practices of yoga can be understood within the broader history of structural racism in the United States.