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...screenplay written in the late '60s by James Baldwin and Arnold Perl, Lee splays Malcolm's story across a 40-year panorama of Americana (the film cost $34 million, but it looks twice as expensive and expansive). In the mid-'20s, Malcolm Little's parents are threatened by the Ku , Klux Klan. In the '30s he finds both acceptance and isolation in white foster homes and white schools. In the '40s Malcolm (embodied with potent charm by Denzel Washington) is a rakish dude, running numbers and lording it over his white mistress Sophia. In the '50s he finds Allah...
...longer mad at the good whites who felt Blacks were equal as long as they did not try to live in their neighborhoods, date their children or start running things. All the violent rage that had so frightened them was directed at the racists, the Southerners, the Ku Klux Klan, but not people who "even had some Black friends...
Most of the crowd of Harvard students showed open pity for Stockdale. "I am embarrassed for him," said Katherine H. Ku...
...consternation of some black civil rights leaders, Morris Dees, the white Alabama civil rights lawyer famed for successfully fighting the Ku Klux Klan in court, is also in the nominee's corner, arguing that Carnes is not a racist but just a man who has capably pursued his duty as a prosecutor. The Harvard-trained lawyer has prosecuted two state judges for making racist remarks in court and has defended blacks in civil rights lawsuits...
...fire hose. Eventually the frustrated crowd began to pelt the cops with mud, rocks, bottles and obscenities. The police made eight arrests. For the man whose presence triggered the violence, no outcome could have been better. "Oh, yeah," said Grand Wizard Thom Robb of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. "I couldn't have bought this advertising for a million bucks...