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...growing up in the shadow of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., Hendricks was as fascinated by the stars over his head as by the insects at his feet. After earning a degree in history, he became a university fund-raising consultant outside Washington, where Discovery is based today. Then in 1985, at a time when the TV documentary had been written off as an idea past its prime, he enlisted the moral support of Walter Cronkite (whom he cold-called) and the financial muscle of media-investment firm Allen & Co. to help him launch the Discovery...
...would it be? It could be the day he stood in front of the Great Emancipator's statue and told more than 250,000 marchers and millions of TV viewers about his dream for America. It might be the day he sat scribbling in a jail cell in Birmingham, Ala., challenging the moderates of white America to stop offering sympathy and start offering real change. Or maybe it's the day a bullet took him down and made the country wonder if it could ever fulfill his promise of a better future...
...mind was simply a different substance from the body. Even as scientists identify the various electronic and chemical signals of the brain, they cannot say with certainty how the signals function. Descartes's theory of the brain could not fully explain how it worked either. RACHEL WALLACE Montgomery, Ala...
...confront legal segregation and becoming a key background figure in encouraging the desegregation of the armed forces. As an advocate of pacifism and nonviolence, Rustin was critical in advising a young and still uncertain Martin Luther King Jr. on how to conduct an effective civil rights protest in Montgomery, Ala. But Rustin's greatest achievement was organizing the 1963 March on Washington, immortalized by King's "I Have a Dream" speech. Thereafter, Rustin never gave up his advocacy for a variety of causes at home and abroad, and was a brave and eloquent voice resisting the Black Power movement that...
...brief to argue for maintaining the tax-exempt status of Bob Jones University, despite its discriminatory policies and its ban on interracial dating. (In his defense, his office offered a list of largely symbolic accomplishments on behalf of minorities: a congressional medal for Rosa Parks, who began the Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott; a task force to recognize the slaves who helped build the Capitol; a day honoring minority World War II veterans...