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...black woman returning to Baltimore from Virginia, refused to cede her seat on a crowded Greyhound bus to a white person. Having kicked the policeman who removed her from the bus, she pleaded guilty to resisting arrest but refused to pay a $10 fine for violating Virginia's Jim Crow laws. Her case, argued by NAACP lawyers Thurgood Marshall and William Hastie, worked its way to the Supreme Court, which in 1946 ruled segregation on interstate buses unconstitutional...
...Causeway Bay, a popular shopping district, union representatives brushed shoulders with nationalists bearing oversized posters of Chinese revolutionary Sun Yat-sen and bright Taiwan flags. Groups of demonstrators broke up to make way for an oversized wooden float piloted by an elderly driver hawking traditional Chinese medicine for crow's feet...
MORE THAN MANY, HE WAS the squinting, ugly face of violent racism in the Jim Crow South. With his billy club, cattle prod and NEVER button--a reference to his view on black-voter registration--the beefy, sadistic former Alabama sheriff Jim Clark ironically galvanized the civil rights movement. After a stunning televised 1965 confrontation in Selma in which Clark joined in beating and teargassing peaceful protesters, public opinion shifted. "Bloody Sunday," which Lyndon Johnson called "an American tragedy," is widely believed to have expedited the President's signing of the Voting Rights Act in August 1965. Clark...
Robert Amen, IFF's CEO, would prefer to keep those relationships quiet. In other industries, execs love to crow about their deals with big, powerful companies. Not here. When you partner one day with, say, Colgate and the next with Crest, you're better off keeping your list of friends to yourself. "We're the ghostwriters," says Nicolas Mirzayantz, 44, head of IFF's smell division...
Rocker Sheryl Crow and An Inconvenient Truth producer Laurie David sparred over climate change with Karl Rove at a D.C. dinner. At one point, they claim, the Bush adviser snapped, "Don't touch me." Shocked at the unthinkable rebuff, the pair wrote on THE HUFFINGTON POST, "How hardened and removed from reality must a person be to refuse to be touched by Sheryl Crow?" SCORE...