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...strong opponent of racial discrimination, Caploe was involved in activist efforts during the Civil Rights movement, marching with his first wife in various protests from the late 1950s through the 1970s...
Baseball is often held up as a microcosm of or a metaphor for America, and it's rarely true--but in 1978, in the Bronx, it was. A turbulent country was reflected in the tempestuous Yankees locker room, where racial tension crackled, where women sportswriters were allowed for the first time and where the first wave of baseball's free agents--led by two Yankees hurlers, Catfish Hunter, the son of a North Carolina sharecropper, and Andy Messersmith--were pulling down astronomical salaries. At the center of the maelstrom, stirring it for all he was worth, was manager Billy Martin...
Throughout the turbulent 1960s and the early 1970s, as HUPD struggled with accusations of racial discrimination, Tonis worked to integrate the all-white police force...
...March 12, 2002, when the Supreme Court ordered a stay of execution with only a few minutes to spare. That was his 15th scheduled execution date. A black man convicted of murder in 1980 by an all-white jury, Banks appealed his death sentence on the grounds of racial bias, defense incompetence and prosecutorial misconduct. Only these last two claims were accepted for review...
...Supreme Court reviews Banks’s 1980 murder case this fall and as politicians everywhere continue to debate peripheral details of the death penalty process, is that capital punishment has lost any claim to ethical acceptability anywhere else in the Western industrialized world. Flaws such as racial bias are ultimately insignificant (in fact, whites receive the death penalty slightly more often than blacks overall, and the race of the defendant is of much less statistical relevance than that of the victim, according to research by Smith College scholars published in the summer 1994 issue of the The Public Interest...