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...usually vote Democratic, may be inclined to give the Republican ticket a second look if they see someone on the ballot who personally understands their struggle as black women. Rice is intimately familiar with black issues. She was actually there in 1963 when the Ku Klux Klan bombed Birmingham??€™s sixteenth Street Baptist Church killing four young girls. In an interview with 60 Minutes Rice remembered, “Well, we knew those little girls. Denise McNair was my little friend from kindergarten. And she was a playmate and I just couldn't believe that she was dead...
...little after 5 p.m. on a Tuesday, Matt and Andrew stood in Birmingham??€™s Kelly Ingram Park, staring at a statue of a hose. They had just left Birmingham??€™s civil rights museum, so they knew exactly what the statue represented: in May 1963, acting on the orders of police commissioner Bull Connor, Birmingham police sprayed high-pressure hoses at hundreds of marching children, knocking them to the ground. Matt and Andrew were fingering the brass reconstruction when from behind them a voice called...
...King’s nonviolence methods, Vietnam radicalized Perkins. Just as he was about to join Black Power, Perkins said, he had a change of heart and got married instead. The marriage lasted 30 pleasant years; when it ended, he said, he turned to alcoholism. Now he lived among Birmingham??€™s vast homeless population, at that moment some of the only people outdoors...
Shannon P. O’Brien—state treasurer and a former state legislator—leads current polls. She is followed closely by Warren E. Tolman, a former state legislator, Robert B. Reich, a Brandeis University professor and former secretary of labor and Thomas F. Birmingham??€™72, president of the state senate. (Steven Grossman is also listed, though he withdrew from the race in July...
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