{"product_id":"2940149019427","title":"Civil Rights Issues in West Virginia","description":"Since the late 1980s, the West Virginia Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil \u003cbr\u003eRights has been concerned that statewide leadership in protecting civil rights has diminished. \u003cbr\u003eFrom 1988 through 1993, as detailed in the next \u003cbr\u003esection, the Advisory Committee sponsored several community forums and fact-finding meetings at which panelists documented worsening \u003cbr\u003ecivil rights problems in the state. The Advisory \u003cbr\u003eCommittee followed up on these events by presenting a series of recommendations in its reports to state officials on actions to improve the \u003cbr\u003eclimate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis heightened attention to civil \u003cbr\u003erights issues resulted in some steps forward; \u003cbr\u003enonetheless, experts and community members \u003cbr\u003etestifying at subsequent planning meetings in \u003cbr\u003e1996 and 1997 emphasized to the Committee \u003cbr\u003ethat race relations had continued to deteriorate \u003cbr\u003eand that state agencies had failed to address \u003cbr\u003ethis problem adequately. \u003cbr\u003eTo explore these issues in greater depth and \u003cbr\u003espur stronger efforts for change, the Committee \u003cbr\u003eheld three community forums across the state, \u003cbr\u003ein Logan in November 1998, Morgantown in \u003cbr\u003eJune 1999, and Charleston in April 2000. The \u003cbr\u003epresent report provides an overview of current \u003cbr\u003ecivil rights issues in West Virginia based on testimony at these three forums and limited additional research, presents key findings of the Advisory Committee based on the information \u003cbr\u003egathered, and sets forth recommendations of the \u003cbr\u003eCommittee for actions to address the problems \u003cbr\u003eand improve the situation of civil rights in West \u003cbr\u003eVirginia.","brand":"ReadCycle","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47072810369264,"sku":"2940149019427","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940149019427_p0.jpg?v=1763710890","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940149019427","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}