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...tabloid conspiracies that crowd her persona. The jazz singer Diane Schuur made poignant connections between her own blindness and that of Helen Keller. Rita Dove, America's former poet laureate, produced a tightly woven mini-epic in prose of the moment of Rosa Parks' apotheosis from unprepossessing Montgomery, Ala., matron to unshakable icon of the civil rights movement. Collaborating with staff writer Romesh Ratnesar, Fang explained the symbiotic nature of physics and political dissent that he and Sakharov practiced. Says Ratnesar: "He did so in a methodical, disciplined way, as if he were explaining the proof of a theorem." Ratnesar...
...know the story. One December evening, a woman left work and boarded a bus for home. She was tired; her feet ached. But this was Montgomery, Ala., in 1955, and as the bus became crowded, the woman, a black woman, was ordered to give up her seat to a white passenger. When she remained seated, that simple decision eventually led to the disintegration of institutionalized segregation in the South, ushering in a new era of the civil rights movement...
...years old when I first saw Jackie Robinson. It was the spring of 1948, the year after Jackie changed my life by breaking baseball's color line. His team, the Brooklyn Dodgers, made a stop in my hometown of Mobile, Ala., while barnstorming its way north to start the season, and while he was there, Jackie spoke to a big crowd of black folks over on Davis Avenue. I think he talked about segregation, but I didn't hear a word that came out of his mouth. Jackie Robinson was such a hero to me that I couldn...
When Dr. Jackson made a house call to visit a toddler with whooping cough in segregated Anniston, Ala. the prognosis was not good...
...This is a white man's sport," a 38-year-old landscaper from Auburn, Ala., tells me. "Blacks have taken over all the other sports. Not that I have anything against the blacks...