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...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...
...rape and treason cannot be regarded as possessing good judgement. The Confederate flag embodies indignities from the plantation to segregated schools. It represents White Citizens' Councils and the Ku Klux Klan, cross burnings and castrations. It is stained with the blood of innocents and heroes from Emmitt Till to Medgar Evers...
Three days after she was elected chairwoman of the N.A.A.C.P., Myrlie Evers-Williams, widow of civil rights activist Medgar Evers, rushed home from Washington to be with her critically ill husband Walter Williams, a retired longshoreman. He died the next day of cancer...
Last week it came to a crossroads. Despite rumors that Gibson controlled most of the votes on the N.A.A.C.P. board, Myrlie Evers-Williams, the widow of civil rights martyr Medgar Evers, pulled off a stunning 30-to-29 victory to become the group's head. ``I am here because I love the N.A.A.C.P.,'' she said last week. ``I believe it must survive. I believe it must thrive.'' The former executive at Atlantic Richfield, who now serves as a commissioner on the Los Angeles Board of Public Works, has always perceived the N.A.A.C.P. in terms of life and death...