Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hollywood, slavery and its infamous legacy have begun to serve as outlets for ambitious filmmaking, whether through wrenching visual impact or intense emotional experience. In recent memory, Edward Zwick delved into the psyche of the black soldier for his sweeping Civil War epic Glory, while Steven Spielberg intertwined visually jarring images of slavery with courtroom drama in Amistad...
Latham said the organization is different from ethnic organizations on campus simply because "it is not an ethnic organization. It is just the hub of a bicycle wheel. It is for anyone who's interested in the advancement of society and civil rights...
Roberta D. Edwards, a KSG student who also ranfor chapter president, told the group in herspeech that she was fired from her job at theMetropolitan Boston Transit Association foractively advocating civil rights. She also pointedto hearings held by the Boston City Councilyesterday to reconsider existing affirmativeaction employment programs in the city's fire andpolice departments...
Williams, the author of Eyes on the Prize, a history of the civil rights movement, recounts the now familiar saga of Marshall's step-by-step assault on Jim Crow as chief counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. But Williams also provides fresh insights into Marshall's ruthless role in the organization's tortured internal politics. Marshall had a hand in ousting not only W.E.B. DuBois, one of the N.A.A.C.P.'s founders, for his ties to communists, but also executive secretary Walter White, for committing the cardinal sin of marrying a white woman...
...battle lines are drawn. William Donohue, head of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights and the play's most vocal critic, disavows violence but denounces the play (which he hasn't seen or read) as anti-Catholic and a "contribution to hate-speech." The League and several free-speech groups plan to demonstrate on opening night. Meanwhile, those who excoriated the theater for its timidity are now praising it. "I think it's a brave thing they're doing," says Craig Lucas (Prelude to a Kiss). Braver still would be for everyone to cool off and just watch...