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Send us a textGUEST: JUSTIN PETERS, Evangelist and Speaker on the Word of Faith MovementIn just a short time in office, President Trump has made many right policy decisions that align with the Bible's call for government and leaders to promote what is good and punish evil (Romans 13), such as ending governmental imposition of the sin of partiality with Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) or the depraved transgender lie, along with a host of other policies that improve fiscal responsibility and national sovereignty over globalism.Christians can cheer that a U-turn has been made away from godless Marxism. But the President's choice of false teacher Paula White to head the White House Faith Office is another story.Paula White is one of the prominent leaders in the Word of Faith movement, also known as the health, wealth, and prosperity gospel. This is a heretical movement that misrepresents God and His Word and leads millions of people away from the one and only saving gospel of Jesus Christ.Justin Peters leads a ministry that has particular focus on exposing the false teaching and false teachers of the Word of Faith movement. His column in the soon-to-be-delivered March issue of The Christian Worldview Journal focuses on Trump's pick of Paula White. He joins us this weekend on the radio program.In the final segment of the program, Twila Brase of Citizens Council for Health Freedom, will inform us about the government's push for a national ID card called “Real ID” that she is urging listeners to avoid and contact their legislators about.> Refuse Real ID: https://www.votervoice.net/SFHF/Campaigns/122494/Respond

Marc Cox takes on the ongoing controversy surrounding the Real ID system with special guest Twila Brase, co-founder and president of the Citizens Council for Health Freedom. Twila explains the dangers of a national ID card, the government's plans to digitize IDs, and how this could lead to surveillance and a social credit system. Twila also breaks down how 44% of IDs are still non-compliant and why it's critical for Americans to reject Real ID. She stresses the importance of raising awareness before it's too late. Twila warns that the federal government is seizing state powers with this initiative, violating personal freedoms in the process. She also sheds light on how the new rules could expand, potentially affecting access to health care and other essential services. If you haven't thought about the impact of Real ID yet, this episode will open your eyes to the massive consequences.

In the third hour of the Marc Cox Morning Show, Marc and Kim dive into the St. Louis comptroller race, discussing Donna Behringer's victory over incumbent Darlene Green and the critical role of the comptroller in city financial decisions. They also cover the Missouri Senate crime bill that reinstates state control over the SLMPD, the upcoming mayoral election, and the challenges facing Missouri's political system. In the second segment, Marc and Kim analyze Al Green's dramatic walkout during a joint session as a calculated move to push the Democrat agenda, along with the ongoing debate over Medicaid cuts and the need for reform. They also discuss clashes in Congress between James Comer and Ayanna Pressley. Special guest Twila Brase, co-founder of the Citizens Council for Health Freedom, highlights the dangers of the Real ID system, warning that it could lead to a national ID card, government surveillance, and a potential social credit system. Twila stresses the importance of raising awareness before it's too late as 44% of IDs remain non-compliant.

Guest Twila Brase, Citizens Council for Health Freedom, joins to discuss the difference in agenda for the healthcare industry of potential Kamala vs Trump administration. Will we see an expansion of Obamacare, or a reform in the healthcare industry?  Trump joins the National Association of Black Journalists, and calls out the "nasty" attacks from the "journalists" at the event. Discussion of identity politics from Democrats, and the crumbling control over minority voters.  Kamala pushes from "white women for Kamala". 

It's Iowa Caucus time! Guest Twila Brase, Citizens Council for Health Freedom, joins to discuss the healthcare industry. Has healthcare been on the downward trend? Discussion of doctors and nurses leaving industry, insurance industry, and cash based insurance.   

GUESTS: TWILA BRASE, president, Citizens Council for Health Freedom JESSE JOHNSON, pastor and author, City of Man, Kingdom of GodGovernment mandates during the Covid pandemic—“wear a mask, get vaccinated, shut down your church or be fined and arrested”—caused Christians to consider the Biblical line between submission to governing authorities and resisting when the commands go beyond the sphere of their authority.Over the last several months, we have heard from guests such as pastor Travis Allen and journalist Alex Newman on the increasing authoritarianism in our nation and how Christians should respond.This weekend in the opening segment, we will be joined by Twila Brase, president of Citizens Council for Health Freedom (CCHF), to discuss rumblings of Covid mandates being instituted this fall and what was behind the mechanisms governing authorities put in place during the pandemic.Then, Jesse Johnson, pastor of Immanuel Bible Church in Springfield, VA and author of City of Man, Kingdom of God: Why Christians Respect, Obey, and Resist Government, joins us for the remaining two segments to explain how Christians need to clearly understand the differing spheres of authority for government and the church.This will get you thinking Biblically in advance of our upcoming listener event, The Christian Worldview Movie Night on Saturday, September 9 at Fourth Baptist Church in Plymouth, MN where we will show The Essential Church documentary film, which chronicles how the pastors of Grace Community Church in Los Angeles and two churches in Canada were fined and/or arrested for gathering their churches to worship during Covid.The film also shows how Christians throughout history have understood the spheres of authority between the church and the state, and when there was a conflict, they concluded, “We must obey God rather than men” (Acts 5:29).--------------------------------------RELATED LINK: Twin Cities area listeners may be interested in attending Citizens Council for Health Freedom annual gala on Thu, Sept. 7 in St. Paul, MN.REGISTER  for The Essential Church Movie NightWe are excited to offer a viewing of this compelling 2-hour documentary for our listening audience on Sat. Sept 9 starting at 6:30 PM at Fourth Baptist Church in Plymouth.  A live panel discussion will immediately follow the film.Learn more: https://overcomerfoundation.kindful.com/e/movienightOrder DVD: https://store.thechristianworldview.org/collections/dvds/products/newoffer

In this episode I discuss the parallels between the White Citizens Council and Mom's For Liberty. I also give book and podcast recommendations. #treystable #podcasts #blackpodcasts #race #criticalracetheory #blackhistory #blackculture #hamptonuniversity #blacktiktok #fyp #blackbookstoreweekend #resisthttps://instagram.com/offtopik...

Twila Brase, RN, (President of the Citizens Council for Health Freedom), has been a bright light in the past two years of darkness. She's been a voice of reason about the uselessness of masks and lockdowns, and is even more concerned about a National Patient ID database that would include ALL medical records. “Why not […] The post Heidi Harris Show Podcast #319: Guest: Twila Brase, RN (Citizens Council for Health Freedom) appeared first on Heidi Harris Show.

Rep. Jeremy Munson and Walter Hudson interview Twila Brase, founder of the Citizens Council for Health Freedom to discuss the various vaccine options, efficacy, and the media's role in reporting on the public health crisis. The Governor's resistance to being vaccinated and canceling the State of the State. 

The Community Planning Advisory Councils were created in the unincorporated County to facilitate and encourage direct citizen participation early in the planning process when it is easier for project proponents and decision-makers to respond to public concerns. The primary purpose of the CPAC is to gather community response to proposed projects. The projects reviewed range from broad policy questions that apply countywide, to small development projects of local interest. Entitlements reviewed include General Plan and Zoning Code amendments to plans, zoning matters and use permits.

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Katherine Wagner is the CEO of the Business Council for the Arts. Her mission is to connect business with the arts and connect the arts with business. She does this by creating primary connections that train and place business leaders on nonprofit boards and through programs that foster synergy businesses with the arts. Business Council for the Arts (BCA) was founded by Raymond D. Nasher in 1988 as an outgrowth of a 1987 Dallas Citizens Council initiative. Nasher—a Dallas real estate developer, leading philanthropist and global art collector—as well as other key business leaders and Citizens Council members determined that Dallas would have the best opportunity for becoming a prominent business city with parallel growth in the North Texas region’s cultural community.Using the model developed by David Rockefeller in 1967, Nasher created a new agency. BCA opened in June 1988 as Dallas Business Committee for the Arts, an affiliate of National Business Committee for the Arts. One of BCA’s roles is to collect data about cultural institutions and programs that have informed and shaped the Dallas cultural policy for decades. Their partnership with Americans for the Arts led to the 2017 Arts and Economic Impact Study, which showed that the arts are not a charity but an industry and that in North Texas nonprofit organizations had a $1.5B impact on North Texas and employs 52,000 people. Their Leadership Arts Institute program, one of their many programs, has been responsible for training and placing board members in all cultural sectors across the DFW area. Tune in to learn more about the BCA’s work to align business and the arts. Happy listening!Learn more about BCA on the web: https://ntbca.org/ @bcatexas on Instagram

The Mississippi Moments Decades Series continues counting down to the Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage 50th Anniversary Celebration in 2021. Another controversial Mississippian takes the spotlight in this week’s episode. Few public figures did more to hinder the cause of civil rights in our state than Judge Thomas P. Brady of Brookhaven. 1972 - In 1948 President Harry S. Truman ordered the desegregation of the US Military. He also supported progressive civil rights legislation that threatened long-established Jim Crow laws of the day. In this interview recorded on March 4, 1972, Judge Brady recalls helping form the State’s Right Democratic Party or “Dixiecrats” in response. In the 1950s, a series of progressive Supreme Court decisions angered conservative whites across the South. Brady states his reasons for wanting Justices to be elected and not appointed. After school segregation was ruled unconstitutional in Brown versus the Board of Education, Brady railed against that decision in a speech entitled “Black Monday.” He explains how the speech became a book and inspired the formation of Citizens’ Councils across the country. While overtly rejecting the violent tactics of the KKK, the Citizens’ Council covertly worked to destroy the lives and livelihoods of all who openly supported integration and equal rights of black Mississippians. Judge Brady was appointed to the Mississippi Supreme Court in July of 1963. Despite his record on racial matters, in several cases that came before the court, he demonstrated a fealty to the Constitution beyond his personal beliefs. He discusses his decision to integrate a “whites only” park in Greenwood despite being a segregationist. PHOTO: actual Citizens Council membership card from private collection.

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Twila Brase is President and Co-Founder of Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom (CCHF), anational patient-centered nonprofit established 25 years ago in Minnesota to support health care choices, individualized patient care and medical and genetic privacy. She is author of the eight-time award-winning book Big Brother in the Exam Room: The Dangerous Truth About Electronic Health Records, which was published in July 2018.Modern Healthcare named her #75 on their 2009 “100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare”list. Last year, Twila Brase was selected as one of 18 leaders to participate in the U.S.Department of Health and Human Services Quality Summit, which met three times at the end of 2019. Their discussions will be used to provide the President of the United States with a roadmap for restructuring federal quality measurement programs.John Marchica, CEO, Darwin Research GroupJohn Marchica is a veteran health care strategist and CEO of Darwin Research Group, a health care market intelligence firm specializing in health care delivery systems. He’s a two-time health care entrepreneur, and his first company, FaxWatch, was listed twice on the Inc. 500 list of fastest-growing American companies. John is the author of The Accountable Organization and has advised senior management on strategy and organizational change for more than a decade.John did his undergraduate work in economics at Knox College, has an MBA and M.A. in public policy from the University of Chicago, and completed his Ph.D. coursework at The Dartmouth Institute. He is a faculty associate in the W.P. Carey School of Business and the College of Health Solutions at Arizona State University and is an active member of the American College of Healthcare Executives.About Darwin Research GroupDarwin Research Group Inc. provides advanced market intelligence and in-depth customer insights to health care executives, with a strategic focus on health care delivery systems and the global shift toward value-based care. Darwin’s client list includes forward-thinking biopharmaceutical and medical device companies, as well as health care providers, private equity, and venture capital firms. The company was founded in 2010 as Darwin Advisory Partners, LLC and is headquartered in Scottsdale, Ariz. with a satellite office in Princeton, N.J.

We will discuss a surprisingly easy remedy for a whole lot of issues such as headaches, constipation and dry skin. This remedy is even a factor in many serious diseases. Integrative physician, Dana Cohen, MD, is the author of Quench: Beat Fatigue, Drop Weight, and Heal Your Body Through the New Science of Optimum Hydration. We will talk about the best sources of hydration, when to get it and how to keep it in your body longer. Tell the IRS not to regulate Health Sharing Ministries and Direct Primary Care (DPC) clinics as insurance because it would likely put many out of business and limit consumer access to these affordable options.Learn more and TAKE ACTION AT THIS LINK to Citizens Council for Health Freedom.  

We will discuss a surprisingly easy remedy for a whole lot of issues such as headaches, constipation and dry skin. This remedy is even a factor in many serious diseases. Integrative physician, Dana Cohen, MD, is the author of Quench: Beat Fatigue, Drop Weight, and Heal Your Body Through the New Science of Optimum Hydration. We will talk about the best sources of hydration, when to get it and how to keep it in your body longer. Tell the IRS not to regulate Health Sharing Ministries and Direct Primary Care (DPC) clinics as insurance because it would likely put many out of business and limit consumer access to these affordable options.Learn more and TAKE ACTION AT THIS LINK to Citizens Council for Health Freedom.  

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HIPAA Privacy Rights aren't really about privacy. It’s more of a road map to grab your private health information. Just how much can they access? Settle in and pay close attention to America’s foremost health privacy expert, Twila Brase, RN, PHN, as she shares the overall landscape. Gird your loins for a dive to ground level where a patient tells a doctor everything. What happens after that, is of deep concern for every American, regardless of a political party. It’s especially important for future generations and for people with health histories they’d not like published on the Internet. But, there’s a little-known secret to solve the current mess we are in. One stroke of a pen is all that’s needed. Come November 2020, the question we all must ask is who will most likely do it? Twila Brase is the President and Co-Founder of the Citizens Council for Health Freedom: https://www.cchfreedom.org/ She is the author of the bestselling book, Big Brother in the Exam Room: The Dangerous Truth about Electronic Health Records. Available here from Amazon: https://amzn.to/32EAswE or http://bigbrotherintheexamroom.com More of the links to topics mentioned on the show: Get out of the system: https://jointhewedge.com/ Admiral Michael Rogers at the Cleveland Clinic. Compare what NSA must do to read an American citizen's email or listen to a phone call. (22:39 mark medical privacy and the threat): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU5UCCVT4D0&t=1428s Q & A Session (with a good question at the 20:13 mark about government databases): https://youtu.be/GsHAZ1-uW2c Visit Winning Healthcare Food Fights at: https://winhff.com Copyright 2020 – Winning Health Care Food Fights --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/winhff/message

Rep. Jeremy Munson is in for Sue, and is joined by Twila Brase from the Citizens Council for Health Freedom to talk healthcare. Prescription costs, routine care, and choices in healthcare are discussed.

Rep. Jeremy Munson is in for Sue, and is joined by Twila Brase from the Citizens Council for Health Freedom to talk healthcare. Prescription costs, routine care, and choices in healthcare are discussed.

Sue is joined by Twila Brase from the Citizens Council for Health Freedom. They discuss the issues in Medicare and why government should not be in charge of our health.

Sue is joined by Twila Brase from the Citizens Council for Health Freedom. They discuss the issues in Medicare and why government should not be in charge of our health.

Sue rants on the ignorance of the mandatory minimum wage. Will Trump carry MN in 2020? Matt Flanders from the Citizens Council for Health Freedom offers up some wins in healthcare.

Sue rants on the ignorance of the mandatory minimum wage. Will Trump carry MN in 2020? Matt Flanders from the Citizens Council for Health Freedom offers up some wins in healthcare.

Sue is joined by Twila Brase from Citizens Council for Health Freedom. She covers opting out for seniors on Medicare and keeping their SS Benefits.

Sue is joined by Twila Brase from Citizens Council for Health Freedom. She covers opting out for seniors on Medicare and keeping their SS Benefits.

Twila Brase, R.N., is president and co-founder of the Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom and is a certified public health nurse. She provides commentary for the one-of-a-kind Health Freedom Minute, provides testimony at the state legislature, meets with members of Congress, and speaks around the country. She has been interviewed on CNN, Fox News, NBC Today Show, among others, and her quotes appear in publications of the Associated Press, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and others. Please leave a comment:  go https://www.cchfreedom.org/cchf.php/1499 Watch my Celebrity interviews on my YouTube Channel! Go here> https://goo.gl/EA9x6D Connect with Bert Martinez on Facebook. Connect with Bert Martinez on Twitter.

Sue chats with Matt Flanders from Citizens Council for Health Freedom. They discuss the latest in healthcare options and failures brought on by the left.

Sue chats with Matt Flanders from Citizens Council for Health Freedom. They discuss the latest in healthcare options and failures brought on by the left.

Matt Flanders from the Citizens Council for Health Freedom joins Sue to discuss the latest in healtcare.

Matt Flanders from the Citizens Council for Health Freedom joins Sue to discuss the latest in healtcare.

Sue is joined by Twila Brase from the Citizens Council on Health Freedom.

Sue is joined by Twila Brase from the Citizens Council on Health Freedom.

Why not fill out the HIPAA form when you go to the doctor? Have you had enough of Obamacare yet? There’s plenty of talk about what a mess it is, why hasn’t it been repealed? On today’s show we interview Twila Brase, Founder of the Citizens Council for Health Freedom (www.cchfreedom.org). In the interview, our guest reveals some of the dirty little secrets about obamacare’s origins, starting with the HIPAA laws from the Republican majority Congress. You’ll learn not only how we got into this mess, but what options are available to get us out of it. The post Healthcare, Obamacare and HIPAA appeared first on Home Front with Cynthia Davis.

Welcome back to robinlofton.com.  Actually, I should welcome to the new rememberinghistory.com podcast. This month, April 2015, I launched the new and improved website and podcast called rememberinghistory.com where we are still remembering history and we’re still making history, too!  Yes, it’s a new and improved website and community where you can still find the Wiki History podcasts, my bodacious blog and a great community of fun and friendly people who love history!  You will also find some new things at rememberinghistory.com. I have opened a store called Books & Stuff where you can find, well, books. But you can also find DVDs, videos, and lots of other “stuff” to enhance your history experience.    While I’m glad that you are listening to my podcasts, I think that it’s also important to read, read and read some more.  I remember that John Adams (2nd president of the United States) said when after finishing his studies at Harvard and before writing the Massachusetts constitution was asking himself, “How can I judge? How can any man judge unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading?!”  That’s why I have opened a books and stuff store.  And I’ve made it easy because I have also added my personal reading recommendations for the month and for just general knowledge and interest. Everything that I recommend in the store, I have personally read and highly recommend. So, what if you’re not the reading type? That’s okay too. Some people are more visual. Some people are more audio-oriented. Everyone is learns differently.  (John Adams and his contemporaries didn’t have that option!) But we do so I also recommend DVDs and audiobooks. Again, each one has been personally vetted by me—I have read, watched or listened to all of them.  I would also like your opinions about these supplementary items and I definitely want your recommendations too. So, that is one of the new things that you will find at rememberinghistory.com.   There will be another new addition to the website too, which will launch on June 1st.  I will give you more information and ways to win prizes and other freebies as the date gets closer but for now…just know that something big is coming soon. Stay tuned.  Finally, before getting to our first Wiki History Podcast about Less Famous Heroes, I just want to remind you that you can still go to robinlofton.com but you will be redirected automatically to rememberinghistory.com.      Please remember to sign up so that you can receive the podcasts, blogs, news and updates directly to you by email.  (Don’t worry, you won’t get an avalanche of email messages but you will stay informed and updated about the goings on at rememberinghistory.com. Enough said about that.   In the Spring, I like to take a moment to remember the people who have fought and died in the struggle for civil rights, the fight for human rights.  Yes, I know that Spring is upon us, the days are longer, the birds are singing again and the flower buds are just returning. It is a time for renewal. But for me it is also a time for remembrance.  Why? Two reasons. In the midst of all the wonderful feelings of happiness, joy and freedom, it just feels right to me to remember those people who fought for us to have the right to enjoy those freedoms.  The second reason is that April 4th is the day that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated.  April 4, 1968 to be exact.  He was certainly a fallen—and definitely not forgotten—hero.   Dr. King needs no introduction. But he definitely deserves our remembrance this month. He was a (or the) leader in the civil rights movement.  Many people do not realize, though, that he was also a philosopher and prolific writer.  His speeches are legendary but his books take the issues to a new level of deep.  One of his best, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?  should be on everyone’s short list to read. Written in 1967, Dr. King discusses, in this book, the advances made in civil rights in the 1950s and 60s. But then he continues on to question what African Americans can and should do with these hard-won freedoms. He concludes that Blacks and whites—or actually, everyone—should unite to fight poverty and demand equality of opportunity. This is a powerful book, and very ahead of its time.       For a shorter and very moving summary of his philosophy, read Dr. King’s Letter from a Birmingham jail (written on April 16, 1963).  It is a condensed version of his philosophy and thoughts about discrimination, equality and how people will have to unite for the common good.  I saw another side to Dr. King as well in his Letter from a Birmingham Jail. He sounded angry and frustrated about the difficulties that he was facing in the cause of equality, especially from his clergy brethren.  You will see a very human side to Dr. King, which is compelling and provides a fuller picture of this brilliant man. Dr. King was the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1964. Yes, he was a leader of the African American community but his vision and work led him to become a world leader.  Dr. King was killed on April 4, 1968.  He will always be remembered and honored for his dedication and service.  And now is a great time to remember other people who though not so prominent or famous as Dr. King made important and courageous contributions in the field of human rights too.  Some made big contributions. Others made strong individual stands. All were important and deserve to be remembered. That’s what I’m doing today.   By the way, you can find Where Do We Go From Here? Chaos or Community? and Letter from a Birmingham Jail as well as DVDs and audiobooks in the bookstore at rememberinghistory.com. You don’t have to remember the names—you will find them in the Special Section called Less Famous Heroes in the bookstore at rememberinghistory.com.   Have you heard of Corporal Roman Ducksworth, Jr.?   Corporal Ducksworth was a military officer with leave to go home to see his wife and five children. On April 9, 1962, he was taking a bus through Mississippi when a police officer, William Kelly, awoke Corporal Ducksworth by punching him in the face. The officer then ordered Corporal Ducksworth off the bus. He refused.  The officer dragged then dragged him off the bus at gunpoint and shot him through the heart. Let’s back up a moment.  Why did this happen, why was Corporal Ducksworth killed?  Different accounts but probably because he refused to move when the bus entered Mississippi, where segregation was still enforced.  The Supreme Court had already declared segregation on buses to be illegal.  And Corporal Ducksworth stood up for his right to sit in any available seat on the bus. For that stand, he was punished, killed. In standing up for his right, he also stood up for our rights.  This was a courageous move for anyone to make in Mississippi in 1962. Unfortunately, Corporal Ducksworth was killed and Officer Kelly’s actions were ruled as justifiable homicide; no federal charges were filed.   However, Corporal Ducksworth received full military honors and a 16-gun salute. For his bravery in standing up for his rights, we salute Corporal Ducksworth and honor his courage.  Thank you, Corporal Ducksworth!     Rev. George Washington Lee   We move on now to another brave man in the fight for civil rights. Rev. George Washington Lee. What a great name. In fact, many African Americans were named (or named themselves) after the founders of the United States.  People like George Washington Carver and Booker T. Washington are other examples.  Some were so named during slavery but many others received their names after slavery ended.  Back to George Washington Lee.   Reverend Lee was the first black person to register to vote in Humphreys County, Mississippi since Reconstruction. Rev. Lee often used his pulpit and his printing press to urge other Blacks to vote. White officials offered him protection on the condition he end his voter registration efforts. And Rev. Lee received many death threats for his efforts to register himself and other Blacks to vote. But he would not be deterred.   Reverend Lee was a member of the NAACP and had worked for years to pay poll taxes so that he could vote and was finally allowed to sign the register after the county sheriff feared federal prosecution.   On the night of May 7, 1955, Reverend Lee drove his car along Belzoni’s Church Street, returning from an NAACP meeting when people said “two gun blasts shattered the night stillness, and his Buick sedan swerved over the curb and rammed into a frame house.  Several witnesses saw a car drive by with white men inside but the local sheriff ruled that Rev. Lee had argued with a woman and lost control of his car. He died on his way to the Humphreys County Memorial Hospital.”     As it turned out, the FBI did investigate Rev Lee’s murder and records show the agency built a circumstantial murder case against two men, but a local prosecutor refused to take the case to a grand jury. Peck Ray and Joe David Watson Sr., the suspects, were members of the Citizens Council. Both died in the 1970s and never served any time for the killing.   Some of Lee’s friends believe the murder was part of a larger conspiracy involving influential members of the community who wanted to silence Rev. Lee for encouraging blacks to register to vote.   For his courage and determination to vote and encouraging other Blacks to vote, we honor the memory of Rev. George Washington Lee. And we thank him for his service.  (Applause)   I will end this first podcast about Less famous heroes with a discussion of Harry and Harriet Moore. They were both black educators in Florida and formed the first office of the N AACP in the southern state.  The Moores focused on the sharp disparity or difference between the salaries and benefits received by white teachers and black teachers in the public schools. In fact, they filed the first lawsuit teacher salary disparities.  They also fought against segregation particularly in education. Later, Mr. Moore began to focus on the problem of police brutality and lynching—both very controversial and dangerous subjects. Harry Moore documented and personally investigated more than a hundred cases of lynching in the state of Florida.  Because of their work against violence and discrimination, they received numerous death threats and were later fired from their jobs.         On Christmas Day in 1951, a firebomb was placed directly under their bedroom in the house where they with their two daughters. The bomb exploded while they slept. Its explosion was called the “blast heard around the world” and sent the bed flying through the ceiling. Harry Moore was killed instantly. Nine days later, Harriett Moore died. Their daughters survived. Rallies were held. Letters were sent to the Governor and President Eisenhower but to no avail. No one was ever arrested or charged. They are the only known couple to be killed in the fight for civil rights.     A recent investigation into the bombing—and by recent, I mean 2005 (more than 50 years ago their murders)—by the Florida State Attorney General discovered that the bombing had been done by four Klansmen who were known to be especially violent and used explosives in other killings. One of the klansmen actually had a diagram of the Moore’s home. Two of the klansmen died in 1956 (the year after the bombing), one klansman committed suicide and the remaining killer died in 1978. Before his death from cancer, he admitted to being at the scene of the bombing of the Moore’s home in 1951.   The Moore’s have received many posthumous awards and honors, including have a post office and state high way named after them. They were also inducted into the Florida Civil Rights Hall of Fame. Langston Hughes wrote and read a poem at their funeral. It is short so I want to take a moment to read it.   Florida means land of flowers It was on a Christmas night. In the state named for the flowers Men came bearing dynamite... It could not be in Jesus’ name Beneath the bedroom floor On Christmas night the killers Hid the bomb for Harry Moore   A book was written about Harry Moore called Before His Time: The Untold Story of Harry T. Moore, America’s First Civil Rights Martyr. It was written in 1999 by investigative journalist Ben Green. You can find this book (which is also about Harriett too) in the bookstore at rememberinghistory.com.  I hope that you read it but be prepared for an emotional ride—anger, sadness, frustration or all of the above. You decide. And let me know your thoughts and feelings about the book; I look forward to your comments.   For their work in education and courage to fight segregation and violence against African Americans, we remember and honor Harry and Harriett Moore. And we thank them for their service. (Applause!)   So, this brings the first podcast about Less Famous heroes to an end.  Corporal Ducksworth. Reverend George Washington Lee. Harry and Harriett Moore. While it is important to note the violence that ended their lives, it is more important (I believe) to remember how they lived, what they fought for and their courage under fire.  And they can give us the courage to stand up for what is right and fair for all people.   In the next podcast, I will make a special focus still on Less Famous heroes. But the next podcast will focus on heroes who were white and were killed during the civil rights movement, fighting for civil rights. I think that many times we forget that many whites participated in the rallies and marches and were also opposed to segregation and the other evils of discrimination. (Their work and activities also caused them to lose friends, be rejected by family members and face violence.) So, I’m going to remember them in the next podcast.  Their stories are also interesting and inspirational and remind us to stand up not only for our own rights, but also for the rights of others.   I am reminded of one of my favorite philosophers, Edmund Burke, who said “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” (repeat)  Well these people refused to “do nothing” even though things might have been easier and safer for them if they did. So they are an inspiration to us all and I am happy to remember and honor them in the next podcast.   I hope that you will join me for the next podcast and that you enjoyed this session.  Yes, the stories can be sad. They can be frustrating, perhaps even make you angry.  But they are a part of history—all these people made history and we are here to remember history and to make history, too!   If you want more information—and I hope that you do—please visit rememberinghistory.com and look at the blog and the bookstore where you will find the books that I mentioned at the beginning called Where do we go from here: Chaos or Community and the Letter from a Birmingham Jail. And the book about Harry Moore. You will also find other books, DVDs and resources that I personally recommend.  Also, please leave your questions, comments, stories or just whatever is on your mind. We are a welcoming community of historians and we want you to be a part of it.  So, see you next time at rememberinghistory.com (formerly robinlofton.com) where we are remembering history and we’re making history!   Bye for now!  

William J. Simmons, M.W. Hamilton, and Erle Johnston recall both the influence and organizational faults of the White Citizens Council in Mississippi.  (photo of White Citizens Council operative on right with camera at voting site)