On Jun 19, 2013, at 3:18 PM, Yoav Nir <ynir(_at_)checkpoint(_dot_)com> wrote:
Yeah, and "act" is what Americans call statutes, and Selma is a city in
Alabama where there was some controversy about voting rights. You sure need
to know a lot of Americana to participate meaningfully in some of these
discussions.
Sorry. That was directed largely at Melinda who is, to the best of my
understanding, an American. The point was that in fact the civil rights
movement started with individuals, not the government.