Nov. 22 1991 After two years of debates, vetoes, and threatened vetoes, President Bush reverses himself and signs the Civil Rights Act of 1991, strengthening existing civil rights laws and providing for damages in cases of intentional employment discrimination.By Thomas Jackson
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Oct. 1 1962 James Meredith becomes the first black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi. Violence and riots surrounding the incident cause President Kennedy to send 5,000 federal troops.By Thomas Jackson
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Sept. 24, 1965Asserting that civil rights laws alone are not enough to remedy discrimination, President Johnson issues Executive Order 11246, which enforces affirmative action for the first time. It requires government contractors to "take affirmative action" toward prospective minority employees in all aspects of hiring and employment.By Thomas Jackson
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Sept. 15 1963 (Birmingham, Ala.) Four young girls (Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, and Addie Mae Collins) attending Sunday school are killed when a bomb explodes at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, a popular location for civil rights meetings. Riots erupt in Birmingham, leading to the deaths [...]
Sept. 1957 (Little Rock, Ark.) Formerly all-white Central High School learns that integration is easier said than done. Nine black students are blocked from entering the school on the orders of Governor Orval Faubus. President Eisenhower sends federal troops and the National Guard to intervene on [...]
Aug. 28 1963 (Washington, D.C.) About 200,000 people join the March on Washington. Congregating at the Lincoln Memorial, participants listen as Martin Luther King delivers his famous "I Have a Dream" speech.By Thomas Jackson
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Aug. 10 1965 Congress passes the Voting Rights Act of 1965, making it easier for Southern blacks to register to vote. Literacy tests, poll taxes, and other such requirements that were used to restrict black voting are made illegal. By Thomas Jackson
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Aug. 4 1964 (Neshoba Country, Miss.) The bodies of three civil-rights workers—two white, one black—are found in an earthen dam, six weeks into a federal investigation backed by President Johnson. James E. Chaney, 21; Andrew Goodman, 21; and Michael Schwerner, 24, had been working to register black voters [...]
Aug 1955.Fourteen-year-old Chicagoan Emmett Till is visiting family in Mississippi when he is kidnapped, brutally beaten, shot, and dumped in the Tallahatchie River for allegedly whistling at a white woman. Two white men, J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant, are arrested for the murder and acquitted by an all-white [...]
I read this with interest on iCommandant. The post from Adm. A talks about the importance of the Maori culture. Coast Guard Report published a follow-up to the Admiral's statement. USCG: Commandant's Corner - Journal: "It is also important to note the extensive effort New Zealand" [...]
July 2 1964 President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The most sweeping civil rights legislation since Reconstruction, the Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination of all kinds based on race, color, religion, or national origin. The law also provides the federal government with the powers to [...]
June 23 2003 In the most important affirmative action decision since the 1978 Bakke case, the Supreme Court (5–4) upholds the University of Michigan Law School's policy, ruling that race can be one of many factors considered by colleges when selecting their students because it furthers "a compelling'" [...]
June 12 1963 (Jackson, Miss.) Mississippi's NAACP field secretary, 37-year-old Medgar Evers, is murdered outside his home. Byron De La Beckwith is tried twice in 1964, both trials resulting in hung juries. Thirty years later he is convicted for murdering Evers.By Thomas Jackson
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May 17, 1954 The Supreme Court rules on the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans., unanimously agreeing that segregation in public schools is unconstitutional. The ruling paves the way for large-scale desegregation. The decision overturns the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson [...]
May 4 1961 Over the spring and summer, student volunteers begin taking bus trips through the South to test out new laws that prohibit segregation in interstate travel facilities, which includes bus and railway stations. Several of the groups of "freedom riders," as they are [...]
May 1963 During civil rights protests in Birmingham, Ala., Commissioner of Public Safety Eugene "Bull" Connor uses fire hoses and police dogs on black demonstrators. These images of brutality, which are televised and published widely, are instrumental in gaining sympathy for the civil rights movement around [...]
April 29 1992 (Los Angeles, Calif.) The first race riots in decades erupt in south-central Los Angeles after a jury acquits four white police officers for the videotaped beating of African American Rodney King. By Thomas Jackson
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April 19 1967 Stokely Carmichael, a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), coins the phrase "black power" in a speech in Seattle. He defines it as an assertion of black pride and "the coming together of black people to fight for their" [...]
April 16 1963 Martin Luther King is arrested and jailed during anti-segregation protests in Birmingham, Ala.; he writes his seminal "Letter from Birmingham Jail," arguing that individuals have the moral duty to disobey unjust laws.By Thomas Jackson
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April 4 1968 (Memphis, Tenn.) Martin Luther King, at age 39, is shot as he stands on the balcony outside his hotel room. Escaped convict and committed racist James Earl Ray is convicted of the crime. By Thomas Jackson
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March 7 1965 (Selma, Ala.) Blacks begin a march to Montgomery in support of voting rights but are stopped at the Pettus Bridge by a police blockade. Fifty marchers are hospitalized after police use tear gas, whips, and clubs against them. The incident is dubbed [...]
Greetings and Happy Holiday’s, Over the past week some of you may have noticed some subtle changes on the Coast Guard Report website. The first and possibly most noticeable were the postings by “staff,” followed by the change in the disclaimer at the bottom of the site, and lastly the [...]
Several readers have voiced concern that we didn't give full attribution to District 13 PAO for their Holiday Greeting video messages.
Christmas Trees for Coasties is a D8 PAO Video and the other four we posted were from D13 PAO. Our readers who clicked on the headline were taken [...]
New facilities for our Coast Guard are essential to Commandant Thad Allen's modernization effort.
Rear Adm. Paul Zukunft, District 11 commander, and Senior Chief Petty Officer Brian Kastner, officer in charge of Station San Francisco, cut the ribbon on [...]
If you didn't think our men and women who serve in your Coast Guard were harms way - think again. Coasties serve all over the globe protecting American interest at home and abroad.
The Coast Guard has general ledger structural and IT system functionality deficiencies that make the financial reporting process more complex and difficult. The financial reporting process is overly complex, labor intensive, and requires a significant number of topside [...]
In FY 2007, KPMG reported that the Coast Guard had several internal control weaknesses that led to a material weakness in financial reporting. In FY 2008, the Coast Guard revised its Financial Strategy for Transformation and Audit Readiness [...]
The Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General contracted with the independent public accounting firm KPMG LLP (KPMG) to perform the audits. The contract required that KPMG perform its audits according to generally accepted government auditing [...]
Our recent column about forbidden interview questions asked readers to send in some examples, and send you did! This week we'll share your horror stories and in a future issue, the "good" questions [...]
It is very rare in the United States Federal Government for SES or GS15's to get disciplined. Having two GS15s in the same office disciplined in a six month period ... two reprimands and a proposed suspension ... could be indicative of abuse [...]
Remarks by Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff at the 2008 End of the Year Address hit the internet yesterday. Here is what he had to say about Coast Guard:
We needed to get together the Coast Guard, the TSA, the customs function and the immigration function so that we could [...]
Terri Dickerson's clean sweep of her office is nearing completion. Since arriving at Coast Guard in 2006 the office has seen a near complete turnover in senior staff. Known throughout the Coast Guard as the Dickerson 15 (the actual number is 17), [...]
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Under President George W. Bush’s leadership, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has achieved considerable success in protecting the nation from dangerous people and goods, securing the nation’s critical infrastructure, strengthening emergency preparedness and response [...]
I have been following the comments on Adm. Allen's post Updated ---Why modernize? An historical perspective since first being notified by one our regular contributors from a comment perspective about the dialogue occurring on the Commandant's blog. I received the following e-mail last night from SCPO (deleted) about the [...]
The Coast Guard Office of Civil Rights led by Terri A. Dickerson and reporting directly to Coast Guard Commandant Thad Allen has apparently missed several requirements of MD-715 and 29 C.F.R. 1614. We reported last night that Coast Guard submitted their December MD-715 report to DHS absent receipt of [...]
Sources at DHS confirm they have Coast Guards MD-715 report, and our sources inside Terri Dickerson's office confirm they submitted the report to DHS without having actually receiving all of the field reports.
On the one hand, we can surmise that Dickerson's staff took call in or e-mail [...]
ROSSLYN, Va., Dec 17, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Lockheed Martin (LMT:Lockheed Martin Corporation (Holding Company)received a $147.5 million contract to provide the U.S. Coast Guard three HC-144A Ocean Sentry aircraft and five Mission System Pallets (MSPs). Once delivered, the new aircraft will [...]
Charity, that is to say, LOVE, begins at home and spreads abroad. Mr. Sulmasy would do well to start at home before he tries to export his recipe for regaining the moral high ground. If a man cannot be trusted to manage his own [...]
Coast Guard Commandant, Admiral Thad Allen has not provided the moral leadership the Coast Guard has needed at one of its darkest hours. As the supreme leader of the Nation's only humanitarian service, he has abandoned the moral high ground. In retrospect his [...]
The Baltimore Examiner is reporting that Congressional members will be asked next week to push more minorities candidates toward the U.S. Naval Academy in hopes of increasing the military institution’s diversity.
“We want to let Congress know that we can work with them, and tell [...]
We missed this story but the Judge didn't. From a report at "CG Chase Hall"
Lt. Kerry D. McKeever, CO CGC Monomoy, a 110-foot patrol boat, stationed in the Persian Gulf has been “temporarily relieved for cause,” the Coast Guard announced in February [...]
Master Chief Skip Bowen left this comment on Admiral Allen's Blog regarding modernization and the Chief's Mess. The CPO Mess is critical to the success of modernization and apparently more than one Chief has expressed concern about the fragmentation of the Chief's Mess as some [...]
Commission Chair Naomi Earp and Gov. Ruth Ann Minner Sign Universal Mediation Agreement
DOVER, Del. – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the State of Delaware today announced the signing of a Universal Agreement to Mediate (UAM) to informally resolve workplace disputes through [...]
On the CGBlog I am participating in a thread where I am being challenged to prove specific allegations. As the proof involves documents I cannot copy text from I decided to try and post the scans here. As the blogger I am volleying with has yet to send me an [...]
Representative James L. Oberstar, Chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, has sent a letter to Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Thad Allen regarding the Coast Guard’s failure to enforce an important vessel safety law.
The law, enacted in 2006, requires the Coast Guard to inspect all vessels carrying [...]
Discrimination, harassment, and retaliation are illegal under the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Below is an important reprint of examples of workplace situations that may indicate a race-based issue at work.
Dec 10th is Human Rights Day, and the week beginning Dec 10th is Human Rights Week. The United States was founded on the principle that government must respect people's rights to speak freely, worship as they choose, and pursue their dreams in liberty. During Human Rights Week, Americans are asked [...]
Today we're taking a look at a sample of Officers from both the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Coast Guard who have been fired over roughly the past 4 years or so. What you'll see is the types of issues that have resulted in the early retirements for these officers. [...]
Governor Janet Napolitano is in line to head the Nations most demanding cabinet post at Homeland Security. Tom Ridge and Michael Chertoff have both contributed to building DHS, but DHS has much room grow and improve.
Possibly Napolitano will bring a new and fresh [...]
At the end of this video the Commandant states that his reforms would be doing much better if they weren't slowed down by the hundreds of hearings and hundreds of data items the congress and others were asked for.
Was this a slip up? Did the Commandant's frustration [...]
According to the EEOC, an oral warning or reprimand is appropriate only if misconduct (e.g., harassment) was isolated and minor. If an employer relies on oral warnings or reprimands to correct harassment, it will have difficulty proving that it [...]
We're not shy around CGR on our suggestion that Adm. Thad Allen should turn over the Coast Guard to a new Commandant. The reasons are myriad and his recent answer to a reader on why he should remain Commandant doesn't hold much water with many, including some on the [...]
In an article published at FederalTimes.com, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has some advice for his successor: Don’t tinker with the Homeland Security Department. At least not right away.
“I would stop reorganizing,” he said in an interview last week. “Every time there’s a reorganization, it sets [...]
The Office of Civil Rights remains a divided camp as we enter the new week. On the heels of the first ever Functional Review of Terri A. Dickerson's Office by the Department of Homeland Security, many on the staff still feel threatened. Booz Allen Hamilton was contracted [...]
Dec. 1 1955 (Montgomery, Ala.) NAACP member Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat at the front of the "colored section" of a bus to a white passenger, defying a southern custom of the time. In response to [...]
Coast Guard: Deepwater Program Acquisition Schedule Update Needed
GAO-04-695 June 14, 2004
The Secretary of Homeland Security should direct the Commandant of the Coast Guard to update the original 2002 Deepwater acquisition schedule in time to support the fiscal year 2006 Deepwater budget submission to DHS and Congress [...]
"Sources say Napolitano also has a good working relationship with Eric Holder, Obama’s likely pick for attorney general, dating back to her days as Arizona’s U.S. attorney. That would be an important connection for the head of a [...]
The Coast Guard's Deepwater Program, under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), has experienced serious performance and management problems. Deepwater is intended to replace or modernize Coast Guard vessels, [...]
Coast Guard: Strategies for Mitigating the Loss of Patrol Boats Are Achieving Results in the Near Term, but They Come at a Cost and Longer Term Sustainability Is Unknown GAO-08-660 June 23, 2008
The removal from service of eight 123-foot patrol boats in November 2006 created operational [...]
Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Thad Allen said he is pressing the international community, as well as boating communities in the United States, on the need to have small boats — those under 300 gross tons — carry identifying transponders so security forces can better monitor those that may be [...]
NEWPORT, R.I. -- Police said a member of the Coast Guard is facing charges of beating his 8-month-old son. State police allege 26-year-old Brandon Holley, of Middletown, stepped on the boy's midsection and kicked and smacked the child last Wednesday and early Thanksgiving morning. Read more...By Thomas Jackson
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United States General Accounting Office (GAO) Report to Congressional Requesters May 2001
COAST GUARD: Progress Being Made on Deepwater Project, but Risks Remain GAO-01-564 The Coast Guard is in the final stages of planning the largest procurement project in its history—the modernization and/or replacement of over 90 cutters [...]
Testimony Before the Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard, Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, U.S. Senate United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) Wednesday, February 14, 2007 COAST GUARD: Coast Guard Efforts to Improve Management and Address Operational Challenges in the Deepwater Program Statement of Stephen [...]
Where else have we seen major cabling issues by Northrop?
How many issues can the Navy and Coast Guard tolerate or cover for until the straw breaks the camel's back? By Thomas Jackson
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I expect to see more in the coming days. It will be interesting to see how the Navy and Northrop handle this. By Thomas Jackson
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Testimony Before the Subcommittee on Homeland Security, Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives by the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) Thursday, February 15, 2007 COAST GUARD: Preliminary Observations on Deepwater Program Assets and Management Challenges Statement of John P. Hutton, Acting Director Acquisition and Sourcing Management [...]
We're publishing a multi-part series on the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports on Coast Guard during Adm. Thad Allen's tenure as Commandant of the Coast Guard and Chief of Staff of the Coast Guard. To kick off this series, I thought it best to make all [...]
The closing paragraph of David Axe' article Sunk Costs Why, after $24 billion in upgrades, the Coast Guard still deploys a fleet of rust buckets sums Adm. Thad Allen's tour as Commandant of the Coast Guard up in one tidy package. I've posted it below, but encourage you to [...]
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Terri A. Dickerson: Breaking Ground in Coast Guard Transparency or so we thought. Back in October of this year, after months of what Coast Guard would call our relentless complaints here at CGR that Dickerson had failed to carry out an essential function of her [...] 
Excerpts from the DHS Annual Financial Report
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The Baltimore Examiner is reporting that Congressional members will be asked next week to push more minorities candidates toward the U.S. Naval Academy in hopes of increasing the military institution’s diversity. 
Master Chief Skip Bowen left this comment on Admiral Allen's Blog regarding modernization and the Chief's Mess. The CPO Mess is critical to the success of modernization and apparently more than one Chief has expressed concern about the fragmentation of the Chief's Mess as some [...] 
Commission Chair Naomi Earp and Gov. Ruth Ann Minner Sign Universal Mediation Agreement 
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