Word: medgar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been the greatest day of my life," she told friends later. "Everywhere I went, I heard his voice on tapes." But after her husband's death, Shabazz didn't exactly linger in the past. She got a doctorate in education administration, eventually became director of public relations at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, N.Y., and raised the six daughters he left behind. Sometimes she also helped raise the grandson named after her slain husband, because life so often proved too much for his mother. Life was never too much for Betty...
...away from a tough crowd he was associating with in his neighborhood. Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan expressed his sympathies for Betty Shabazz, with whom he had had a 32-year rift over the assassination of her husband Malcolm X. Mrs. Shabazz, an administrator at Medgar Evers College, believed Farrakhan was partly responsible for the fatal shooting of her husband...
...racist entitled to as fair a trial as a pornographer? The good people of Mississippi--all right, the bad white people--gave Byron De La Beckwith every benefit of the doubt in his 1964 trials for the murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. Two hung juries and a quarter- century later, a Jackson prosecutor (Alec Baldwin, who's good in a tough role) reopens the case, goaded by Evers' widow Myrlie (Whoopi Goldberg). He has a chance: this time the gabby, unrepentant Beckwith (James Woods) is facing a jury that is largely black...
...icon who changes her mind. The I.R.A.? No problem: Some Mother's Son has flinty Helen Mirren playing the mother of a Belfast hunger striker. And American racism? Take your pick. Rob Reiner's Ghosts of Mississippi re-enacts the trial of Byron De La Beckwith, the murderer of Medgar Evers; John Singleton's Rosewood is about the attempt to dislodge an affluent black community...
Three events in recent days, however, have breathed hope into a nation that has lived long under the baby boom's army of occupation. If you look, you know that the '60s had a core of nobility and tragedy. It breaks the heart still to think of Medgar Evers or Martin Luther King Jr., or the night Bobby Kennedy was shot. But so much of the time turned to meretricious junk, an idealism gone clueless and narcissistic. We saw traces of the pattern again in the case of the Unabomber, for example--Rasputin with a chemistry set. Or we felt...