Word: alabamas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Federal authorities arrested Christopher Johnson on arson charges, accusing him of having set fire last August to Alabama's Randolph County High School, the school beset with racial discord after its principal, Hulond Humphries, threatened to cancel a prom over interracial dating. Emmett Johnson, the suspect's father and founder of a local protest group called the Black Panther Militia, asserted that the arrest was a frame...
...losing continued on the team's California spring break trip; the Crimson lost five straight matches. But the losing streak was constructive: the losses--to highly acclaimed programs such as UCLA, Southern California and South Alabama--served as a mid-season wake-up call...
Aaron was born in Mobile, Alabama, on February 5, 1934, the third oldest of eight children...
...threat began in the 1930s, when the aggressive red fire ants came to Mobile, Alabama, perhaps on shiploads of lumber imported from the insects' home territory in South America (the milder-mannered black fire ant had arrived, also from the Southern Hemisphere, in 1918). In the 1950s and early '60s concerned government officials tried to eradicate the insects with such powerful chemicals as heptachlor and mirex. The program was later dubbed "the Vietnam of entomology" for both its destructiveness and its futility. The poisons killed not only their targets but also most other wildlife in the treated areas...
...differences like gender, religion, and region could be represented within the ranks of the college faculty, why couldn't qualified minorities add to the faculty's diversity? I find more than a little irony in the fact that I had more minority teachers in my Montgomery, Alabama high school than I have during my entire time at Harvard. My time here has proven that the Deep South is not the only part of America where racial inclusion is a challenge...