Word: medgar
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Director of the Harvard Foundation S. Allen Counter Jr. will meet with the chancellor of City University of New York (CUNY) and other officials later this week to discuss whether he will agree to assume the presidency of Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, a CUNY source said yesterday...
...Civil War a century earlier had not bestowed. The civil rights movement from Montgomery to Memphis was an American epic, with a thousand evocations of place and name: the lunch counters of Greensboro in 1960; the "Freedom Riders" of 1961; SNCC; CORE; the March on Washington; James Meredith; Medgar Evers; Bull Connor in Birmingham; Philadelphia, Miss.; Schwerner, Goodman and Chaney . . . But race and slavery, America's original sin, came back always, and had begun to break into sporadic warfare in the Northern ghettos...
...that long ago that the all-white powers that be in the South refused to penalize the murderers of Blacks or the KKK. The killers of Mississippi's NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers were never brought to justice. This time, however, justice was done. After Donald's murderers were sentenced to life imprisonment, a civil suit was brought against the UKA for inciting its members to kill him. Racial hatred was put on trial. It lost...
...followed the 1954 Supreme Court decision outlawing school segregation. Names and episodes parade by like battles in a familiar military campaign: Rosa Parks' refusing to relinquish her seat on a Montgomery bus, nine black students' trying to attend high school in Little Rock, the murder of Civil Rights Leader Medgar Evers and the 1963 march on Washington...
JOHN KENNEDY, his brother Robert, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, Medgar Evers, George Wallace, now Ronald Reagan. For the last two decades, American history has been pockmarked, redirected, twisted by bullets. It is cause for jubilation that the president survived Monday's attempted assassination; the bloody scene outside a Washington hotel, though, is also cause for despair. Despite all the lessons, all the grief, we have failed to end the reign of violence that is our shame...