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Others interview, Studs Terkel elicits. Under the influence of his discerning eye and disarming tongue, truck drivers and professors, black activists and Klan members, entertainers and executives yield their secret griefs and their private truths. It is appropriate that in his film debut -- in John Sayles' Eight Men Out -- Terkel plays one of the first journalists to scent the World Series...
...quarter-century later, Atlanta, it is said, has finally shaken off the dust of Georgia. What had been Forrest Street -- named for General Nathan Bedford Forrest, Grand Wizard of the original Ku Klux Klan -- is now named in memory of Ralph McGill, the anti-racist newspaperman who was once derided as Rastus McGill by people who now speak reverentially of his contribution to the community. The city's best-known monument is not a statue to the Confederate fallen but the grave of Martin Luther King Jr. The civil rights activists who once used Atlanta's airports to travel...
White supremacists held a rally near the Omni Convention Center which provoked an anti-Klan demonstration that led to a clash with city police. Meanwhile, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan addressed a crowd at a local Baptist church...
...neighborhoods in the Empire State seems not to be subsiding, but exploding into more and more cases of racial violence. This past week, two more attacks on Black were made by white gangs yelling racial slurs. Have we not yet left behind the era of lynchings and the Klan...
...largest barrier to opportunity isn't the Ku Klux Klan, but the White House. Ronald Reagan has been a steadfast opponent of the Civil Rights movement, while Vice President George Bush has shamelessly backed his hostile stance...