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DIED. ART HANES, 80, die-hard segregationist Southern mayor; in the city he ruled for a single, notorious term, Birmingham, Ala. In 1962 Hanes shut down Birmingham's parks rather than open them to blacks; in 1968 he became James Earl Ray's first lawyer...
...team was introduced by Massachusetts Speaker of the House Thomas M. Finneran, while the English team was introduced by Massachusetts Senate President Thomas F. Birmingham...
Greenough proctor Sara E. Birmingham said of hosting, "I think it's a civic duty. If you want to have an interesting and excellent class coming in and being your colleagues next year, you need to take the initiative and show the pre-frosh that this is really a wonderful school...
Because pre-frosh weekend draws so many students, proctors are required to stay on campus all weekend, Birmingham said...
Robinson had the guts to speak out against racial injustice after he retired from baseball. In 1963 he traveled to Birmingham to be with Martin Luther King Jr. after four little black girls were blown to bits in the bombing of a church. "The answer for the Negro is to be found, not in segregation or separation, but by his insistence upon moving into his rightful place, the same place as that of any other American within our society," he argued. He didn't back down from his integrationist stance even when more militant blacks called him an Uncle...