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...violent clash with state troopers outside Selma, Ala. The confrontation climaxed a remarkable decade of civil rights activity that followed the 1954 Supreme Court decision outlawing segregation. Eyes on the Prize II, an eight-week continuation of that story, plunges us into a much different world. Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael and other firebrands have emerged to challenge the movement's old guard and question its tactics. If Eyes on the Prize recounted the inspiring opening act of the civil rights struggle, the follow-up series presents a more complex and disturbing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: When The Pot Overflowed | 1/15/1990 | See Source »

...movement goes north; the emergence of black pride) and a dramatic arc that builds toward climactic episodes marking key milestones. What makes the series most satisfying, however, are the interviews with onetime partisans who look back with surprising insight and clearheadedness. It's the sight of a graying Carmichael smiling as he recalls a phone conversation with King just before King came out publicly against the Viet Nam War. Or Ron Scott, whose apartment was raided by National Guardsmen during the Detroit riots, explaining, "Inside of most black people there was a time bomb . . . a pot that was about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: When The Pot Overflowed | 1/15/1990 | See Source »

Central Connecticut (80): Linda Lee 2-0--4; Michelle Grifford 4-0--8; Angie Suffridge 4-4--13; Charlene Shephard 5-3--13; Michelle Crimmins 10-2--22; Sunny Hill 1-0--2; Ruthie Smith 3-0--6; Denise Como 4-0--8; Keisha Carmichael...

Author: By Peter I. Rosenthal, | Title: W. Cagers Turned Back By Blue Devils, 80-74 | 12/14/1989 | See Source »

...would someone from Carmichael, Cal., come to Harvard to play water polo? One wonders why this same water polo player from Carmichael, Cal, did not swim a lap when he was in Germany for two years...

Author: By Kevin Toh, | Title: 'That Adventuresome Spirit' | 11/3/1989 | See Source »

...nice to know that four years after he came to Harvard, Griffin hasn't lost the adventuresome spirit which brought him here from Carmichael in the first place. New England Championships...

Author: By Kevin Toh, | Title: 'That Adventuresome Spirit' | 11/3/1989 | See Source »

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