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...former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young points out, Connerly and his ilk quote King on a highly selective basis. They tout the passage from the "I have a dream" speech about judging his children not "by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." But they ignore an earlier passage in which King angrily declared, "When the architects of our Republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was the promise that all men, yes, black...
There were other careers he might have pursued. At George School, the Quaker prep school Ennis attended in Pennsylvania, he was a good singer and actor. In Atlanta he appeared in a local ad for Fila sportswear. Just before his death, he promised Michelle Hood, a fashion-photographer friend in New York City, that he would pose for her. But she says he never thought of modeling as a serious career, only as a way to make a little extra money for school. Apart from sports cars, he did not have his father's passion for the appurtenances of celebrity...
...regular person" and that, perhaps, he didn't need to go to college, since he wanted to start a business instead. His father remembers watching in frustration as his son studied and studied but got nowhere with his grades. Ennis managed to enter Morehouse College in Atlanta, but he continued to struggle with his schoolwork. His mother Camille told Jet magazine in 1992, "We didn't know that Ennis was dyslexic until he went to college...
...graduation from Morehouse. He headed for graduate school in New York City to become a teacher of children with learning disabilities. Says Jasper: "This was not something his parents or his father forced on him. We both got sent to Dean Rusk School, a lower-income-housing school in Atlanta. And when he was there, he was always talking about how he loved working with the kids. He really loved it." He seemed to thrive on social work. Wearing oversize tennis shoes that made his feet seem gigantic, Ennis would cheerfully come to work at the Covenant Shelter...
SPOKANE, Wash.: The circumstantial evidence linking three prisoners in Spokane to the Olympic Park bombing may be growing. Telephone records reportedly show that someone in the Atlanta area phoned one of the suspects at his Idaho home at approximately the time the bomb exploded six months ago today. The Spokesman-Review of Spokane reports that the Justice Department and the FBI are investigating three men accused of bombing a bank, an abortion clinic and a newspaper office in the Pacific Northwest. The men, also charged with robbing two banks in the Spokane area, are currently in jail awaiting trial...