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...until the last week of her life in the service of others—in the service of justice,” Motley wrote. “She encountered such ugliness in her life—from the slums of New Haven where she grew up to the Jim Crow South where she fought for freedom—and it was her mission to impart beauty and goodness to this world...

Author: By Vivek Viswanathan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Civil Rights Attorney Dies | 10/5/2005 | See Source »

...letter on display, from the President of Baylor University in Waco, Texas, informs Othello’s artistic company that the audience of the play would have to be segregated according to Texas’s Jim Crow laws. The production’s artistic company refused to perform before segregated audiences, and so Othello did not tour Baylor University, or, in fact, any Southern city. Even in Northern cities, segregation was such a fact of life that Robeson, although a national star, had trouble finding hotel accommodations in some cities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fall Arts Preview: Art Listings | 9/30/2005 | See Source »

...trials finally ended when a Catholic priest was implicated as the brains behind the fires. Justice Horsmanden could crow, “the Old proverb has herein … been verified That there is Scarce a plot but a priest is at the Bottom of it.” Burton suddenly “remembered” the presence of a priest at Hughson’s, and other witnesses were mustered who agreed. The priest was hanged. When Burton started remembering that “People in Ruffles”–influential men who were held...

Author: By David Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BOOKENDS: Harvard Scholar Faces the Ghosts of Old New York | 9/23/2005 | See Source »

They call him the man who killed Jim Crow, the beacon of the NAACP’s revolutionary crusade against segregation, and the architect of the historic Brown v. Board of Education ruling. And now, 55 years after his death, Harvard Law School (HLS) leaders hope they can finish what Charles Hamilton Houston set out to complete...

Author: By Javier C. Hernandez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Institute Aims To Continue Houston’s Work | 9/16/2005 | See Source »

Mexico rekindled a cross-border controversy last week with a new series of postage stamps of Memn Pingun, a 1940s cartoon boy that resembles the Jim Crow-era caricatures of African Americans. The White House objected to the philatelic stereotyping, which follows President Vicente Fox's gaffe in May that Mexicans do jobs in the U.S. that "not even blacks want." The Rev. Jesse Jackson demanded a recall of the "Sambo-type" images. But a rep at the Mexican embassy insisted the stamps are misunderstood: "Speedy Gonzlez has never been interpreted in a racial manner" in Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stamps of Disapproval | 7/5/2005 | See Source »

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