Word: movements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Coahoma, Miss. (pop. 351), which plans to replace the town's entire housing stock. There are 38 college chapters and 68 Habitat affiliates overseas. All told, 4,000 homes have been built since 1976. Boasts Fuller: "It's clear to me that we are seeing the birth of a movement...
Parker dismisses all indictments: "Our film isn't about the civil rights movement. It's about why there was a need for a civil rights movement. And because it's a movie, I felt it had to be fictionalized. The two heroes in the story had to be white. That is a reflection of our society as much as of the film industry. At this point in time, it could not have been made any other...
...buggings, approved by then Attorney General Robert Kennedy, aimed at digging up proof that King was under the influence of suspected Communists. The surveillance yielded plenty about King's extramarital affairs, which Hoover circulated among high government officials and journalists. In his important study of the civil rights movement, Parting the Waters, Taylor Branch writes that by 1963 Hoover was so convinced King was a danger to America that the bureau no longer alerted him to death threats. In late 1964 FBI agents mailed a threatening letter and tape recording of King's sexual escapades to his wife, apparently...
...murders: "The film suits the fantasy of the Ku Klux Klan that the FBI was an invading tyrannical force that imposed its will on the South because it played dirty." It is bad enough that most Americans know next to nothing about the true story of the civil rights movement. It would be even worse for them to embrace the fabrications in Mississippi Burning...
...they can visualize just how the light of the sun on the moon produces different moon phases. They make their own telescopes from cardboard, paper-towel cylinders and plastic lenses. (The result is a telescope more powerful than the one first used by Galileo.) They record in journals the movement of the moon and sun and chart the arrivals and departures of the constellations...