Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such concerns, though understandable, prevent the divestment movement from becoming just that--a movement. The civil rights protesters did not confine their concerns to specific states. If Bull Connor hosed protesters in Alabama, protesters in Mississippi did not keep quiet. Fighting for a cause meant supporting others involved in the same struggle. Each protester knew that he had more than justice on his side--in a real sense he had an entire movement of dedicated protesters prepared to support him and he would do anything to help any of them if that became necessary...
...this point I'd like it to be a look at the South, the history, where it is today, and where it's going," said founder Victoria J. Franklin '87, a native of Sulligent, Alabama...
...Space Camp is part of the Alabama Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, a showcase with museum, theater and "rocket park" that Wernher Von Braun developed in 1970 in connection with NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center nearby. The camp has been open for several summers to young people ages ten to 16. Now for the first time, it is open to adults. They can come to the camp, at a cost of $350 each, to spend three days hearing lectures on space flight, getting a sampling of astronaut training and flying missions in the camp's simulated space shuttle...
...Lobjois was given the job of communications officer. As the crew and mission control listened on the headphones, Lobjois' creamy French accent came over the air, offering commentary on the flight, caressing the NASA jargon. Maurice Chevalier as Chuck Yeager. The more characteristic accent of the weekend belonged to Alabama, one camp official lecturing earnestly on space "mah- jools...
...Troop, a coon dog of towering integrity, breathed his last. Key Underwood, who owned Troop and loved him like a son, put the dog in a 6-ft.-long cotton-picker's sack and brought him out here to the piney woods in the northwestern corner of Alabama and buried him in a hole 3 ft. deep. Then he got a rock, and with a hammer and a screwdriver and cold chisel he etched out a cross and Troop's name and the date of his birth and the date of his death. Now 48 years later, 160 coon dogs...