Antique brass buttons

We seek not just freedom but opportunity. We seek not just legal equity but human ability, not just equality as a right and a theory but equality as a fact and equality as a result.
That day, Johnson expressed long-term goals for the civil rights movement:
to help the American Negro fulfill the rights which, after the long time of injustice, he is finally about to secure. To move beyond opportunity to achievement. To shatter forever not only the barriers of law and public practice, but the walls which bound the condition of many by the color of his skin. To dissolve, as best we can, the antique enmities of the heart which diminish the holder, divide the great democracy, and do wrong--great wrong--to the children of God.
As I replay Obamas victory moment in my head, it occurs to me how well Johnsons phrase captures the ultimate significance of Barack Obamas election: to fullfill these rights. Shattering forever the racial barriers and walls around the highest office in the land.
An African-American couple was directly in front of me, arms around each other as they watched Obama take the podium

Johns Catholic Church.
Russellville La Leche League, 10:30 a.m., All Saints Episcopal Church, 501 S. Phoenix Ave.
Lions Club, noon, Western Sizzlin.
Transitions Bereavement Support Group, noon to1 p.m., Arkansas Hospice, 2405 E. Parkway Drive, Suite 3; 498-2050 or (888) 498-2050.
Russellville Civitan Club, 5:30 p.m., Western Sizzlin; 886-1297.
Stroke and Diabetes Support Group, 5:30 p.m., Saint Marys Regional Medical Center, Cafeteria 3.
Mental Illness Support Group, 5:30-7 p.m., Counseling Associates, 110 Skyline Drive; 890-3045, extension 30 or 967-1397.
Parkinson Disease Support Group, 6-7:30 p.m., Saint Marys Regional Medical Center, Cafeteria 2; 890-5039.
American Legion and auxiliary, 6 p.m., Legion Hut, 215 N. Denver Ave.
River Valley Remote Control Club, 6 p.m., Russellville Airport Lounge.
TOPS, Chapter 374, 6-7 p.m., Community Room of Dover Housing Authority, South Elizabeth Street; 967-8523 or 331-3194.
Retreads, 6 p.m., Dewaynes Diner, Dover; 968-7246.
Bingo, 6 p.m., Disabled American Veterans building, 1506 E. Second St., Suite B. Non-smoking facility.
Reception for the Frogmans Print program by Cindy Chaffin.
Valley Antique Automobile Club, 7 p.m., Western Sizzlin; dinner at 6.
Russellville Music Club, 7 p.m., home of Tim and Kristen Smith.
Professional Artists and Craftsmen of Arkansas, 7 p.m., Pope County Senior Activity Center, 1010 N. Rochester Ave.
Hector Lions Club, 7 p.m., Hector City Hall; 284-5471 or 284-3255.
Joe Wheeler Chapter 247 of United Daughters of Confederacy, 7 p.m., Arkansas River Valley Regional Library, Dardanelle.
Pottsville Historical Association, 7:30 p.m., Dog Alley Kitchen; 967-7632.
Military Order of the Cooties, 7:30 p.m., Rogers-Rye Post 2283 of Veterans of Foreign Wars, State Highway 7 North.
River Valley Cloggers, 7:30 p.m., 2640 Landers Loop, Dover; 331-2564

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