Word: alabamas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
...Harvard men's tennis team continued to impress yesterday with a 4-0 victory over Davidson College at the National Blue-Gray Classic in Montgomery, Ala. It moves on to face No. 20 Alabama in today's tournament quarterfinals...
...Tennis vs. Alabama...
...store's?" asks the clerk who picked up the phone at an independent Manhattan bookstore specializing in art and photo books. She is responding to my queries about David Hamilton, the photographer whose recent collection of images of nude young girls, The Age of Innocence, prompted an Alabama grand jury to indict Barnes & Noble on charges of selling child pornography. This action came in response to protests by Christian activists, fanned nationwide by the likes of Randall Terry, the antiabortion activist and conservative talk-show host. It won't surprise you to learn that the opinion of Barnes & Noble...
...banal results (New York Times critic described the typical subject of one of Sturges' photos as "just a J. Crew model with no clothes to sell"). Their work, however, has also been the subject of recent protests, and one of Sturges' books, Radiant Identities, is cited in the Alabama indictment...