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This work is the most recent in a series of projects for Bond which have tackled a number of sensitive issues—including his previous work developing the Birmingham Civil Rights Museum and the crypt for Martin Luther King, Jr. in Atlanta...
Some of his other projects include the Birmingham Civil Rights Museum and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change...
...letter that would become famous. He was not attacking Southern mobs or Northern politicians. The targets of King’s letter were the liberal ministers and rabbis who had previously been some of his most powerful supporters. When King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference had moved into Birmingham to stage a civil disobedience campaign, the liberal clergy objected to King’s tactics. At the time, the civil rights movement was focused on the courts. King’s direct action was considered radical, dangerous, and possibly harmful to the cause. The more conservative leaders...
PLED GUILTY. ERIC RUDOLPH, 38, to the 1996 bombing at the Atlanta Olympics and attacks on abortion clinics and a gay club in Atlanta and Birmingham, Alabama, which in total killed two people and injured 150; as part of a deal to serve four life sentences instead of face execution; in Atlanta and Birmingham. Rudolph, who was caught in May 2003 after having spent five years hiding in the North Carolinian woods, also disclosed the location of more than 110 kilos of dynamite he had hidden there. His primary motivation, he wrote in a rambling and unrepentant manifesto released after...
...savvy financier. He is now a member of a partnership that includes eight current and former basketball players. Among Abdul-Jabbar's investor mates are Ralph Sampson of the Houston Rockets and Terry Cummings of the Milwaukee Bucks. Their first investment was the $1 million Redmont Hotel in Birmingham, which they are spending nearly $5 million to remodel. A $22 million Los Angeles health club is under construction. The group is also negotiating to buy the Inn of Laguna in Laguna Beach, Calif. Asking price: $4 million...