Word: birmingham
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...Court tended to cast rights in terms of one heroic litigant taking on a corrupt system and winning respect for an essentially negative liberty. The right not to be discriminated against, or not to be kept from speaking, were at the root of such great cases as Walker v. Birmingham or New York Times v. Sullivan...
...Politically he's perceived as one of the soldiers of the leadership," Koocher acknowledges, adding that Thompson has been loyal to the city's most powerful representatives, including House Speaker Charles F. Flaherty (D-Cambridge), Sen. Thomas F. Birmingham '72 (D-Chelsea) and Senate President William M. Bulger (D-South Boston...
...Angry white males burned down the church in Birmingham. An angry white male killed Dr. King," Jackson added...
...Supreme Court refused to hear two heatedaffirmative-action cases, leaving intact a pair of reverse-discrimination decisions that favored whites. In the first case, white Birmingham, Ala., firefighters successfully objected to 14 city promotions of blacks, complaining that they had been "passed over" despite scoring higher on the promotion exams. A U.S. appeals court had struck down Birmingham's quota plan as unconstitutional. In the second case, the justices let a white man collect $425,000 from a Pittsburgh company he accused of denying him a promotion because of his race. Though many Court-watchers are looking for signs...
...signed by the Chicago White Sox (whose owner, not coincidentally, also happens to own the Chicago Bulls) to a minor league contract and sent to the Double A Birmingham Barons to work on his basic skills...