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When the Harvard Glee Club performed on television in Birmingham, Ala., as part of their 1961 spring break tour of the South, one Black singer was asked not to sing with the group because of bomb threats...
McDougall spent the summer of 1965 with SNCCregistering Blacks to vote about 30 miles fromTuscaloosa, Ala., then the headquarters of the KuKlux Klan...
Several '67 alumni specifically remembered the1963 Birmingham, Ala. march in which Eugene "Bull"Connor unleashed dogs on Black children. Classmembers say this event, which happened duringtheir first year at the College, illustrated thatdilemma in a startling...
...Democrats, whose re-election depends on combining huge black voting majorities with much smaller shares of the white vote, came down in Thomas' favor after polls showed that large majorities of African Americans supported him. Among them was Lawrence C. Presley, the only black county commissioner of Etowah County, Ala. "I felt that we needed a black to take over that spot on the Supreme Court," says Presley. "We felt here in the Deep South that that was a very vital issue...
...quite guy, not overly vocal. He'll say what needs to be said in a succinct manner," Flomenhoft said. "I think he'll lead by example ala C.J. Young. C.J. went out and performed and everyone else followed...