Democracy Now : April 15 : Suffrage Statue. Southeast Church Burnings

Democracy Now : April 15 : Suffrage Statue. Southeast Church Burnings / Pacifica Foundaton| Produced by Julie Drizin and Amy Goodman| hosted by Amy Goodman. - CONTENT: pt.1. Political headings (4:00) -- pt.2. Suffrage Statue| After years of pressure, the US congress approved moving a 13 ton statue of three female suffragists from the basement of the Capitol. Discussion on the debate between the Women's Suffrage Statue Campaign and the National Political Congress of Black Women who argue the statue should include Soujouner Truth, a black abolitionist and 19th century feminist| guest Joan Meechem, co-chair of the Women's Suffrage Statue Campaign and Delores Tucker, chair of the National Political Congress of Black Women (16:00) -- pt.3. Southeast Church Burnings| civil rights groups say church burnings are still an ongoing problem (10:00) -- pt.4. Department of Agriculture has come under sharp attack as a bastion of racism. Small black farmers are declining at a rate three times the white farmers, and say the agency discriminates against the minority growers| guest John Boyd, poultry farmer from Southern Virginia and the president of the Black Farmer's Association and Lawrence Lucas, the founding member and first elected president of the USDA Coalition of Minority Employees (17:00) - Broadcast by satellite on April 15, 1997.