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...first time in its storied history, the University of Alabama's football team will be put on NCAA probation. Three seasons after winning its sixth national championship, the team was given three years of sanctions for displaying "a distressing failure of institutional control" over players. Investigators said the university violated NCAA rules by not reporting that cornerback cornerback Antonio Langham had illegally signed a contract with an agent...
DIED. ONNIE LEE LOGAN, 85, midwife and memoirist; in Mobile, Alabama. For half a century, Logan delivered the babies of impoverished black families. In 1989 she published her reminiscences, Motherwit: An Alabama Midwife's Story, which became a best-selling feminist classic...
...editorial, June 30, 1995) Daniel Altman presents an occasionally passionate, though largely melodramatic and plainly biased attack of the prison work reforms which a number of the Southern states lately have begun to introduce. As regards the most simple errors of this editorial, Altman inaccurately reports the name of Alabama's governor, Feb James, and clumsily insults the entire South with his depracatory recitation of white Southern dialect, African-American dialect, as once presented in the works of white Southern authors, or the broken English of Yiddish-speaking immigrants, as formerly derided in anti-Semitic media, arguably would arouse different...
...Nazi and Soviet death-labor camps--extreme examples of human inhumanity--the idealist editor fails to describe the nature of contemporary chain gang labor. Instead, Altman compares the disease-ridden prison camps of early 20th century America to the most horrible places of extermination know to recorded history. Alabama prisoners who today collect waste from the roadsides, and who suffer through heat, cold and embarrassment, face only the indignity which they brought upon themselves, rather then the certain and horrible death which millions of innocents endured merely because they were born. Mr. Altman, comparisons such as yours do not under...
...begin understand this issue by setting the stage for the debate. Legislative and law enforcement officials in many southern states have undertaken serious discussion of chain gangs for several months. Among the first to publicly endorse chain gangs was Gov. Fob Edwards of Alabama. The recently-elected governor appeared on national news broadcasts to outline his plan, already partly implemented, for reinstatement of chain gangs in the Alabama prison system...