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...heroic American story that ended, officially at least, with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. In The Children (Random House; 783 pages; $29.95), David Halberstam takes up the narrative in early 1960, with the lunch-counter sit-ins in Greensboro, N.C., and Nashville, Tenn., that were the debut of a new civil rights generation, most of whose members were younger by five or 10 years than Martin Luther King Jr. and frustrated by the lack of change in the years after the Brown decision...
...other Division 1 women's soccer quarterfinal matches, Notre Dame massacred UCLA, 8-0, and Santa Clara defeated Clemson, 3-0, on Saturday. Yesterday, William & Mary fell to Connecticut, 4-0. The semifinal matchups of North Carolina vs. Santa Clara and Notre Dame vs. Connecticut will take place at Greensboro, North Carolina this Friday, Dec. 5. Tickets are reportedly sold out for the North Carolina game...
...melodrama was set in Burlington, N.C., a small town about 20 miles from Greensboro, where Dorothy Hutelmyer was twice president of the PTA, her husband Joseph coached baseball and ran Seaboard Underwriters, and Lynne Cox worked as his secretary. The Hutelmyers' was "a storybook marriage," says Dorothy's lawyer Jim Walker. "He wrote poetry to her, love songs...
...recent study of 90,000 law-school applicants by Linda Wightman of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro illustrates both the challenge of recruiting minorities and the payoff. She found that of the 3,485 blacks accepted by law schools in 1991, just 687 would have been admitted only on the basis of board exams and grades. Yet these same minority students had graduation and bar-exam pass rates similar to whites'--and they had an incalculable value to the black community, as both professionals and role models...
Zoeller soon paid a price for saying openly what many others were thinking secretly. K Mart, the discount chain with a big African-American clientele, unceremoniously dumped him as the sponsor of a line of golf clothing and equipment, and he abjectly withdrew from the Greater Greensboro Open tournament. "People who know me know I'm a jokester. I just didn't deliver the line well," Zoeller tearfully explained. But his real crime was not, as he and his defenders seem to think, merely a distasteful breach of racial etiquette or an inept attempt at humor. The real crime...