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...June to make it on to the ballot—but many delegates are expected to commit to candidates by the party’s caucus in just over three weeks. Reich joins a crowded field of six Democratic candidates, including likely frontrunners state Senate President Thomas F. Birmingham ’72 and former national party chair Steve Grossman...
...activist, follower of Gandhi's principles of nonviolent resistance, King had emerged as the champion of American blacks' crusade for civil rights. A veteran of the Montgomery, Ala., bus protests of the 1950s and the Southern sit-ins of the '60s, King came to the fore in the 1963 Birmingham, Ala., demonstrations for desegregation. In the same year he led 200,000 in the March on Washington and gave the galvanizing "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial. "He articulates the longings, the hopes, the aspirations of his people," said his colleague the Rev. Ralph Abernathy. King went...
...CARRY ME HOME A white native of Birmingham, Ala., Diane McWhorter was 10 in 1963, roughly the same age as the four black girls killed in her hometown's notorious church bombing. Her adult questions about her father's hostility toward the civil rights movement has led to a comprehensive, fast-paced history of that era and its tangled racial animosities...
Carry Me Home A white native of Birmingham, Ala., Diane McWhorter was 10 in 1963, roughly the same age as the four black girls killed in her hometown's notorious church bombing. Her adult questions about her father's hostility toward the civil rights movement has led to a comprehensive, fast-paced history of that era and its tangled racial animosities...
...another year, the Massachusetts legislature has been unable to approve a budget on time. By finishing five months late, the huge cuts in human services programs made necessary by the economic decline will be concentrated in a shorter period of time. Senate President Thomas F. Birmingham ’72 and House Speaker Thomas M. Finneran bear responsibility for the undemocratic, closed-door negotiations that resulted in this flawed budget...