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...world now calls human-rights offenses were both law and custom in much of America. Before King and his movement, a tired and thoroughly respectable Negro seamstress like Rosa Parks could be thrown into jail and fined simply because she refused to give up her seat on an Alabama bus so a white man could sit down. A six-year-old black girl like Ruby Bridges could be hectored and spit on by a white New Orleans mob simply because she wanted to go to the same school as white children. A 14-year-old black boy like Emmett Till...
...also discussed a victory in a voting rights case in Selma, Alabama in 1985, as an example of how she had learned from those she was representing...
...that moment, rejoicing on the steps of the federal courthouse in Selma, Alabama, I realized how central Derrick Bell's advice to me had been four years earlier to go south, to mix it up, to become a civil rights advocate, not just a civil rights technician, "she read from her book...
Their work was appallingly dangerous; blacks and their white allies were brutally beaten and sometimes murdered. In the early days of the civil rights movement, the law was no protection--rather the reverse. But as young John Lewis, son of poor Alabama farmers, said, "If not us, then who? If not now, then when?" Lewis, who led the marchers at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., on March 7, 1965, and went on to become a U.S. Congressman years later, emerges as a kind of saint, the best of the best...
...Tennis vs. Alabama...