Word: alabama
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...black students at a newly desegregated Alabama high school in 1965, Delores Boyd gave a lot of thought to the civil rights movement and her place in it: "I had a sense that the law had a very significant role in whether the movement would fail or succeed." The daughter of a subsistence farmer whose eight children all went to college, she was no star at the University of Virginia Law School. "But I survived and I learned," says Boyd...
...white voters have elected their first Black to Congress--a Black school teacher from a 75 percent white congressional district--so Afro-American voters showed a new political maturity in the 1982 elections which is crucial to the successful evolution of inclusive-pluralistic values in American democracy. In Alabama, the customary political patterns were modified when George Wallace, seeking a political comeback, gained a crucial 30 percent of the Black primary vote which assured him a run-off where he then garnered a whopping 90 percent of the Black vote (against the advice of civil rights leaders like Coretta Scott...
...regarding the pluralistic norms that define American democracy to assist Washington's electoral victory. As Blacks consolidate their status of political parity with whites in Chicago, they can be expected to diversify their bloc-voting in the direction of trans-ethnic and issue-oriented choices. That Black voters in Alabama displayed such diversification of their voting profile, enabling ex-racist George Wallace to return to the governorship, ought to be evidence enough that Afro-Americans are as mature as--and perhaps even more mature than--whites in respecting the inclusive pluralistic ideals of American democracy...
...Alabama executes a murderer...
...internal variations of the year begin to have a merely recreational or sentimental interest. They tend to be, at best, decorative and, at worst, inconvenient. It is true that in Minnesota, winter remains a convicted killer. It is also true that things occur in a Southern spring, in north Alabama or Tennessee or the Shenandoah Valley, that go beyond the merely picturesque: a time-lapse film of blossoms opening, that sweet, rich awakening, a sensuous slow motion of nature...