Word: birmingham
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...April, a white applicant from Birmingham, Ala., who was rejected by Harvard, filed a complaint to the Office of Civil Rights charging reverse discrimination. In the complaint, his mother cites the example of a Black classmate who was admitted with allegedly lower standardized test scores and a "less strenuous" course load. [Please see story page...
Mark Stonecypher is a white male and was salutatorian of John Carroll High School in Birmingham, Ala. His classmate Eugenia Kay Harris is a Black female and was valedictorian...
...complaint, a copy of which was obtained by The Crimson under the Freedom of Information Act, was filed in April 1993 by the parent of a white male student from Birmingham, Alabama who was denied admission to Harvard that month...
...complaint describes a reception for prospective Harvard students held at the Civil Rights Museum in Birmingham in early December 1992. "A 'neutral' atmosphere would have been more appropriate for following non-discriminatory rules," the complaint said...
...came to your country. God forgive me." In Salem, Oregon, in September 1992, three members of the American Front group fire bombed the apartment of a black lesbian named Hattie Cohens and her roommate, a gay white man named Brian Mock, killing both. And a few months earlier in Birmingham, Alabama, three young skins awakened a homeless black man named Benny Rembert and knifed him to death. It was the killers' idea of celebration; they had been drinking in honor of Hitler's birthday. Says Sergeant W.D. McAnally of the Birmingham police department, who helped arrest several local skins: "Hell...