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RACISM IN THIS COUNTRY IS TALKED about primarily as a problem for its victims. But Bebe Moore Campbell knows better. Her remarkable first novel, YOUR BLUES AIN'T LIKE MINE (Putnam; $22.95), begins with a fictionalized account of the murder of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old black boy who was lynched in 1955 for speaking to a white woman in a rural Mississippi town. As in real life, the murderer is acquitted by an all-white jury, but over the next 30 years the murderer's family, unable to adapt to the new ways brought on by the civil...
Last week Imperial owner Emmett Roe, 65, was sentenced to 19 years 11 months in jail as part of a plea bargain that let his son Brad, the plant's operations manager, get off scot-free. Relatives of the dead were outraged, yet the owner's punishment was unusually strong for fire violations. "I can understand the pain of the community, but this is by far the stiffest sentence that I'm aware of for a worker-safety criminal charge," says Douglas Fuller, a spokesman for the Labor Department. That message will probably spread among plant managers around the country...
Henry's eyes blaze with the memories of the human cost of that victory. Because 14-year-old Emmett Till, down from Chicago to visit relatives, allegedly whistled at a white woman, he was beaten, shot and then thrown into the Tallahatchie River in 1955. An all-white jury acquitted two white men of the killing. In 1963 Henry's N.A.A.C.P. associate, Medgar Evers, was gunned down in the driveway of his home in Jackson. His accused murderer, Byron de la Beckwith, was freed when all-white juries failed to reach a verdict. Now the state, seeking to atone...
...Crimson's lone run came in the top of the sixth inning on errors by Lowell firstbaseman Sharesa Emmett and thirdbaseman Stephanie O'Sullivan. More importantly, Harvard's stellar pitching staff once again came through in the clutch. Carr surrendered only four hits and no walks to Lowell in the 1-0 Crimson victory...
...think I'll be able to do any more studying, because I'm going to be working for peace. I've got a paper that I'm just going to take an incomplete on," said M. Emmett Rosenthal '91-'92, one of a handful of Harvard students who participated in yesterday's protest...