Word: desegregationist
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...would return home from Baton Rouge to contest Nagin. That's bad news for Nagin because the Landrieus-including both Mitch and his sister, U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu-have built a formidable political dynasty in Orleans Parish since the 1970s when Moon Landrieu served as the city's desegregationist mayor. During the aftermath of Katrina, while the mayor was struggling with the woes inside the Superdome, Mitch was acting like a macho man out in a boat saving people. "Nagin just went from almost a sure thing," says pollster Bernie Pinsonat, "to probably an underdog against Landrieu...
...book The Best of Enemies and the film An Unlikely Friendship; in Durham, N.C. The cause of the shift: a 1971 community forum on violence as Durham tried to integrate its schools. Over 10 days of talks, he became so close to his adversary and co-chair, desegregationist Ann Atwater, that he denounced the Klan and joined her efforts...
...city championship. They know, however, that their victory is not complete; Travis is determined to find out how they stack up against Jesuit, the best white team in the city. When the St. Augustine coach leaves suddenly, Father Verrett (Homicide's Andre Braugher) takes over as coach. A determined desegregationist from Baltimore, Verrett seizes on the idea of a game with Jesuit as a way to quicken the pace of reform in New Orleans...
Married. Ralph McGill, 69, courtly, compassionately desegregationist publisher of the Atlanta Constitution, columnist and author (The South and the Southerner); and Dr. Mary Lynn Morgan, 46, a children's dentist; he for the second time (his first wife died in 1962), she for the first; in Atlanta...
...Quiet Desegregationist. Now winds of change are blowing through the A.B.A. Last week's meeting boasted the first woman invited to address the A.B.A. assembly: the Dowager Marchioness of Reading, first (1958) woman to sit in Britain's House of Lords. This year's outgoing president, Arizonan Walter E. Craig, is a federal judge-select who stoutly defends the Supreme Court. His successor is Virginian Lewis F. Powell Jr., the moderate former chairman of the Richmond school board, who quietly desegregated that city's schools in 1959. Powell's exemplary platform: Speed up A.B.A. efforts...