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Since the firearms bureau has just 225 inspectors, federal authorities hope that measures like those in the Schumer bill will reduce the number of marginal operators. Some states are moving on their own. In March the Alabama revenue department obtained a list of over 6,500 federally licensed gun dealers in the state. When they did a search of the names, they found that only 2,450 of them were licensed by the state. By May they had tracked down 3,000 of the others and informed them that they would have to pay past license fees and fines. Nearly...
...When Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace, an ardent supporter of segregation, spoke in Sanders Theatre in 1968, he received a less-than-friendly welcome from the Harvard crowd--which surrounded the theater after his speech...
Harvard Film Archive. "Blind" at 7 p.m. This film shows the educational programs and daily life of students from kindergarten through the twelfth grade at the Alabama School for the Blind...
...that have bedeviled many of the Seabees who served with Kay in the Persian Gulf. "These guys have been miserable for the past two years, and they weren't having any of these problems before that," says Charles Jackson, a physician at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Tuskegee, Alabama. Last month, after running many tests on Kay and researching medical journals going as far back as World War I, Jackson determined that the soldier had been exposed to chemical agents. He was the first Gulf War vet to receive that diagnosis, despite similar complaints from thousands of ailing troops...
...parents were onetime Alabama sharecroppers who moved north to Lorain, Ohio, a small steel-mill town just west of Cleveland, in search of a better life. The second of four children, Chloe Anthony Wofford was born in 1931, in the teeth of the Great Depression. Her father took whatever jobs he could find and nurtured, as his daughter once recalled, an angry disbelief in "every word and every gesture of every white man on earth." He apparently had reason. As the daughter grew older, she heard family tales about an incident that occurred when she was only...