By Tom Deignan Constance Curry As the U.S. struggles to reconcile its ideals of equality with a horrific legacy of racial oppression, the lives of John McNamara and Constance Curry - uncompromising Irish Americans, both of whom died this summer - teach us valuable lessons about race, struggle and progress. Constance Curry was born in 1933, in Paterson, New Jersey. Her … [Read more...] about Irish Americans and Civil Rights: Two Uncompromising Lives Remembered