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...even before Griswold's conversion, some whites were hearing a different kind of message from ministers like the Sims' Baptist pastor, the Rev. Ralph Jernigan. He often quoted Bible passages about Jesus' breaking down the "middle wall of partition," as code for racial tolerance. "You couldn't convey too much from the pulpit," Jernigan, 72, recalls, "because you could alienate the people you wanted to lead. But Larry Joe Sims and his family were not racist. That's why what happened was so amazing...
...that Sunday afternoon, as if caught on the billows of the church blast, Virgil Ware and Larry Joe Sims were hurtling toward another racial tragedy. Succumbing to peer pressure, Sims had gone along with friends to a segregationist rally that day--and now he was holding a revolver that his classmate, Michael Lee Farley, 16, had handed him as they rode home on Farley's red motorbike, its small Confederate flag whipping in the wind. As they passed Virgil and his brother James, 16, Farley told Sims to fire the gun and "scare 'em." Sims closed his eyes and pulled...
...whom Virgil left behind, they suddenly found themselves involved in a movement that had seemed remote before his death, and they drew strength from its nonviolent philosophy. "You can't hate anyone and call yourself a Christian," says Virgil's brother Melvin, who has since become an avatar of racial harmony in his community...
...suit seeks to lift the veil of secrecy obscuring the true nature of crime at Harvard and other universities. Without access to HUPD records, it is impossible to fully evaluate important issues such as the scope of sexual assault, student suicides and racial profiling on campus...
...need to hold HUPD accountable has been demonstrated repeatedly. Over the past decade, HUPD has been accused of cover-ups of campus rapes, racial harassment by its officers, sexist behavior by its chief, influence peddling by its top lieutenant and abuse of authority by the head of its criminal investigations division. By blocking access to records that should be public, HUPD continues to give the impression that it has something to hide...