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Bowers was apparently in Afghanistan on a privately organized humanitarian mission when a local Afghan warlord captured him and his interpreter and held them for ransom, according to the story his wife relayed to her local newspaper in Birmingham, Ala...
Bowers was apparently in Afghanistan on a privately organized humanitarian mission when a local Afghan warlord captured him and his interpreter and held them for ransom, according to the story his wife relayed to her local newspaper in Birmingham, Ala...
DIED. KATHRYN KING, 30, ex-wife of the late CIA officer Johnny ("Mike") Spann, who was killed in November during a prison uprising in Afghanistan; of cancer; in Birmingham, Ala. Spann's parents plan to raise their two young daughters...
Preacher, activist, follower of Gandhi's principles of nonviolent resistance, King had emerged as the champion of American blacks' crusade for civil rights. A veteran of the Montgomery, Ala., bus protests of the 1950s and the Southern sit-ins of the '60s, King came to the fore in the 1963 Birmingham, Ala., demonstrations for desegregation. In the same year he led 200,000 in the March on Washington and gave the galvanizing "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial. "He articulates the longings, the hopes, the aspirations of his people," said his colleague the Rev. Ralph Abernathy. King...
Carry Me Home A white native of Birmingham, Ala., Diane McWhorter was 10 in 1963, roughly the same age as the four black girls killed in her hometown's notorious church bombing. Her adult questions about her father's hostility toward the civil rights movement has led to a comprehensive, fast-paced history of that era and its tangled racial animosities...