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...Ceuta have offered would-be immigrants a one-way ticket to mainland Spain; people who got through were typically released in Spain after 40 days, since no repatriation agreements exist with their native countries. While Melilla and Ceuta have attracted African migrants since the mid-1990s, the Spanish Civil Guard estimates that 13,000 people have tried to breach the border this year in Melilla alone, spurred by famine. Last Wednesday, at least 65 men and boys out of more than 500 made it to Melilla. When others tried again in greater numbers on Thursday, only one got through...
...Tens of thousands of people have died in a civil war between Indian security forces and Muslim insurgents demanding either independence from India or union with Pakistan. But the earthquake managed to instill new levels of fear. "I'm 86," said Gul Muhammad Butt. "Never in my life have I experienced anything like...
Motley argued many of the most significant civil rights cases, including those involving James Meredith’s admission to the University of Mississippi and the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School. Motley successfully argued nine of the 10 cases that she presented before the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1960s...
...young lawyer, she also represented Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., visiting the civil rights leader in jail and arguing for his freedom to protest...
Born in New Haven, Conn. in 1921, she rose from humble beginnings. Her family did not have the money to send her to college. However, after she gave a speech on civil rights at a local meeting when she was 18 years old—“You know how 18-year-olds can sound off,” she would later recall in the New York Times—a white businessman in the audience was so impressed that he decided to finance her education...