Word: alabama
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...Alabama-Birmingham 82, Jacksonville...
...rejuvenated, till it resembles the early, activist, Christian church. There is a single American precedent-the civil rights movements of the 1960s was born in the Black Christian church, and there found its greatest source of strength. Rev. Martin Luther King, writing in 1963 from a jail in Birmingham, Alabama, expressed the central theme of his wing of the civil rights movement: "Jesus Christ was an extremist for love, truth and goodness and thereby rose above his environment. Perhaps the South, the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists." But the church of Martin Luther King...
...PUSH for Federal sterilization regulations and public awareness of the problem began when the parents of Minnie Lee Relf, age 12 and her sister Mary Alice, just two years older, charged an Alabama clinic with sterilizing their daughters without their consent in 1973. In that year, the HEW implemented regulations stressing the need for consent forms to govern sterilizations performed with Federal funds. Under pressure from activist groups, the department amended its regulations in 1974, and again in 1979. These new laws extended the waiting period between time of consent and the operation from 72 hours to 30 days, prohibited...
Last Friday in St. Louis, representatives of 137 Division 1-A schools, including Alabama, Oklahoma, Texas, and USC, voted by a show of hands to drop the so-called "Ivy Amendment" from division eligibility qualifications...
...easier to say what Bryant has done. At Maryland, Kentucky, Texas A&M and-for the past 23 years-Alabama, he has won more football games than any other college coach. Numbers are simple. To catch Babe Ruth, all Henry Aaron had to do was hit 35 homers a year for more than 20 years. To catch Amos Alonzo Stagg, all Bear Bryant had to do was win ten games a year for more than 30 years...