civil rights

Pastor David Bullock holds up a bottle of Flint water as Michigan State Police hold a barrier to keep protestors out of the Romney Building, where Gov. Rick Snyder’s office resides on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016, in Lansing, Mich. (Jake May/The Flint Journal-MLive.com via AP)
FLINT, Mich. — “Systemic racism” going back decades is at the core of problems that caused a lead-contaminated water crisis in the majority black city of Flint, according to a Michigan Civil Rights Commission report issued Friday.

Chicago Police patrol the neighborhood at Gresham Elementary School on the first day of classes in Chicago.

Focus on the Family Founder and Chairman James Dobson, left, and others, watches near the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Friday, May 2,2008, as President Bush leaves the White Hous. (AP/Ron Edmonds)

The settlement would be among the largest city payouts in history, almost twice what the city paid to the Central Park Five (AP/Mary Altaffer)

Protestors block traffic outside the Ferguson, Mo., police department, Wednesday, March 4, 2015, in Ferguson.

Mississippi Highway Patrolmen shove the Rev. Martin Luther King and members of his marching group off the traffic lane of Highway 51 south of Hernando, Miss., June 7, 1966. (AP Photo)

Civil rights leader Dolores Huerta speaks during the final day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. As the election of Donald Trump sets in, some dispirited black and Latino liberal activists are looking to veterans of the Civil Rights Movements on how to respond to strong disappointment amid uncertainty over voting rights, immigration reform and police shootings. (AP/Paul Sancya)

They had to kill him to prolong the life of apartheid.
— Nelson Mandela

Introduction

As the Inside the Apple "Postcard Thursday" post notes, the original Federal Hall was torn down in 1812, eventually replaced by the building we know as Federal Hall National Memorial, seen below.