Talk:Percy Green

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This page should not be speedy deleted as an unambiguous copyright infringement, because... (your reason here) --Walterjohnson1967 (talk) 00:13, 5 January 2016 (UTC) The original posting relied on text provided by the Peace Economy Project. Since that triggered an automatic window warning of potential copyright problems, the text has been revised to avoid those issues.

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This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because... (your reason here) --Walterjohnson1967 (talk) 01:42, 5 January 2016 (UTC) Percy Green chained himself to the St. Louis arch to protest the exclusion of African Americans from work contracts related to its construction. This public action was one of the most significant Civil Rights protests in St. Louis. He is a key figure in Clarence Lang's scholarly monograph, _Grassroots at the Gateway: Class Politics and Black Freedom Struggle in St. Louis, 1936-1975_ -- which details the history of grassroots Civil Rights activism in St. Louis. He has been the central subject of a scholarly conference at Harvard University, which is what inspired the creation of this website. He was also recently profiled in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Civil Rights activism, including working-class civil rights activism, is historically significant and should be recognized as such by Wikipedia. All of this does not even rely on the fact that Percy Green was the plaintiff in the Supreme Court employment discrimination case that established, for the first time, that prohibiting discrimination "because of" a reason (like race) could be understood in a layperson's sense. Wikipedia calls it "the seminal case in the McDonnell Douglas burden-shifting framework." This is only one example of the results of the work of this individual, who devoted his entire life to fighting for employment justice for African Americans. What is not important enough about that?!?

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