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...first black president settles into the Oval Office, it seems an odd time for Georgia to be up in arms over school integration again. In 1961, when a federal court ordered the University of Georgia to admit two black students, 1,000 white rioters hurled firecrackers, bricks and racial epithets through dorm windows. But 1961 this is not: today a white Republican is leading the charge, and black students and lawmakers are fighting for the status...
...working under the CEO. The two were raised one block away from each other in Hyde Park. “He grew up in the unlikely scenario,” says Wilkins, “of a kid from a solid middle class background going across the very real racial lines of Chicago to tutor kids eight blocks from where he lived...
...first of many Mellinger would obey. He started his military career as a clerk in what was then called West Germany, and was looking forward hanging up his uniform after two years of service. "I was dead-set on getting out," he says. "We had a lot of racial problems, drug problems, leadership problems." But his company commander talked him into re-enlisting. The lure: the chance to join the Rangers, the elite warrior corps that Mellinger came to love (his 3,700 parachute jumps add up to more than 33 hours in freefall). Re-enlisting "was the best decision...
...search for weapons. The car contained nothing more than Holder, then a dean's-list undergraduate at Columbia University, and a group of black friends. It impressed on Holder the dangers of using the law as a blunt instrument, a lesson he applied years later in overseeing a racial-profiling settlement with the New Jersey state police. After Columbia Law School, he passed up high-paying jobs for a chance to prosecute corrupt officials as a Justice Department lawyer, piling up the convictions of a Philadelphia judge, a Florida state treasurer and crooked FBI agents. In 1988, Ronald Reagan appointed...
...there was his wife Sharon Malone, a prominent obstetrician whose late sister Vivian Malone Jones faced down George Wallace to integrate the University of Alabama in 1963; his brother Billy, who became a New York Port Authority cop; his three young children, who may never know the indignity of racial profiling; and his mother Miriam, 85, who brought up two sons to revere the law. "We taught them to help where you can and right the wrongs that you see," she says. As in the old days, that's as sound as any advice Eric Holder is likely...