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...Lakers gambled because Rodman was, and might still be at age 37, a great player whose specialties--rebounding and defense--are their weaknesses. And he has won five championship rings, a trick the Lakers hope he can teach young stars Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant. Plus there's always a chance Rodman's ex-squeeze Madonna will become a Laker girl...
...Visiting from Chicago and unused to the ways of the segregated South, the 14-year-old allegedly flirted with a white woman. He may simply have returned her gaze as she stared at a stranger's face, and not looked away as black men were supposed to do. Carolyn Bryant told her husband Roy about it. And Roy Bryant and his brother J.W. Milam seized Emmett from the home of his great-uncle in the middle of the night, drove off and proceeded to bludgeon and, finally, shoot him. Then they threw him into the river...
What happened next was revolutionary, even though the verdict was not surprising for the apartheid South. Emmett's great-uncle Mose Wright testified against Bryant and Milam, a black man pointing out white men as the murderers of a black child. After his testimony, Wright fled Mississippi for his life. Bryant and Milam went on with theirs, acquitted of any crime. But the rest of the country looked at Mississippi justice and shuddered. America had seen a mother's sorrow. Mamie Till Mobley had shipped her son's battered body back to Chicago and allowed his open coffin...
...Byrd's relatives. One of the dead man's sisters has spoken of reconciliation. And there is cause for relief that a jury of 11 whites and one black in a small Southern town could come to the same moral conclusion, the same definition of justice. In 1955, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam were declared not guilty by an all-white jury in less time than it takes to watch a movie. A month later, at the behest of a journalist who paid for the story, Milam felt enough public approbation to confess to the murder with impunity...
...Hillel was able to begin renovationstotalling $600,000 late in 1978 after trading itshouses on Bryant St. to Harvard for the right tolease the building for 99 years, according toRabbi Sally Finestone of the Hillel...