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...tribute to civil rights leaders Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr., several of their friends and colleagues reflected on the 45th anniversary of the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott at the Kennedy School of Government yesterday...
Fred Gray, the attorney who defended Rosa Parks in the Alabama courts, said it was important not to forget that many unsung actors also contributed to the civil rights movement...
Gray's own experience is a sort of vindication of this philosophy. He said he made a secret commitment to himself to become a lawyer and "destroy every segregated piece of legislature in Alabama...
...mark lottery tickets--by filling in circles or arrow lines on cards that are read on the spot by optical scanners. "You can have a multitude of people marking ballots at the same time, so you get rid of the waiting lines," says Ed Packard, election administrator in Alabama, where all but three of the state's 67 counties use the method. "And you can program the machines to kick overmarked ballots back to the voter to redo." The scanners also claim an optimal accuracy rate of 99%, but the scanning machines are costly...
...came from a prominent Alabama political family--her grandfather and uncle were U.S. Senators; her father, William Brockman Bankhead, served as Speaker of the House. After winning a beauty contest at age 15, Tallulah Bankhead moved to New York City, where she became an actress, as well as an attractive side dish at the Algonquin Round Table. She created some legendary stage roles--Regina in The Little Foxes, Sabina in The Skin of Our Teeth--though Hollywood never really took to her (Hitchcock used her best in Lifeboat...