Word: alabamas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Vaughn says there are "not many Blackapplicants" from Alabama and estimates about 10percent of interviewees each year are Black. Thereare efforts by visiting undergraduates andadmissions officers to recruit the few Blackstudents in the area, but that minority status hasno bearing on a candidate's evaluation, Vaughnsays...
...complaint, a copy of which was obtained by The Crimson under the Freedom of Information Act, was filed in April 1993 by the parent of a white male student from Birmingham, Alabama who was denied admission to Harvard that month...
...This is racism, not merit," the complaining parent alleges. She writes that the same week that her son was rejected, he was writing a paper on first Black woman to be admitted to University of Alabama...
...your country. God forgive me." In Salem, Oregon, in September 1992, three members of the American Front group fire bombed the apartment of a black lesbian named Hattie Cohens and her roommate, a gay white man named Brian Mock, killing both. And a few months earlier in Birmingham, Alabama, three young skins awakened a homeless black man named Benny Rembert and knifed him to death. It was the killers' idea of celebration; they had been drinking in honor of Hitler's birthday. Says Sergeant W.D. McAnally of the Birmingham police department, who helped arrest several local skins: "Hell, the Klan...
...recruited successfully among skinhead groups in the West and Midwest. Too successfully, perhaps. On the last night of a visit by a WAR lieutenant, three Portland, Oregon, skins beat an Ethiopian student named Mulugeta Seraw to death. The case drew national attention, and the Southern Poverty Law Center in Alabama successfully sued Metzger, winning $12.5 million in damages for Seraw's family...