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...Nine years before Rosa Parks' defiance set off the Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott, Irene Morgan Kirkaldy, a black woman returning to Baltimore from Virginia, refused to cede her seat on a crowded Greyhound bus to a white person. Having kicked the policeman who removed her from the bus, she pleaded guilty to resisting arrest but refused to pay a $10 fine for violating Virginia's Jim Crow laws. Her case, argued by NAACP lawyers Thurgood Marshall and William Hastie, worked its way to the Supreme Court, which in 1946 ruled segregation on interstate buses unconstitutional...
...petition, which sparked widespread media coverage in Britain, may actually be drawing audiences to the show. Producers say the musical has filled its 160-seat theater to capacity during every performance thus far. A video clip of "I Wanna Be Like Osama" has also been viewed more than 125,000 times on YouTube...
...next to me in the front seat of the car, pulling his seat belt across his chest and flipping the radio to his favorite station. “You like that?” he asked. I nodded silently, nervous for what was going to happen next. He settled into his seat. “Alright,” he said. “Let?...
Seven-term City Councillor Michael A. Sullivan announced two weeks ago that he would not run for reelection this fall and would instead focus on his position as clerk of the Middlesex County courts. And fellow seven-termer Anthony D. Galluccio, the frontrunner for the state senate seat being vacated by Jarrett T. Barrios ’90, has said that he will leave the council if he is elected to the senate...
Sullivan is the scion of a local political dynasty that has continuously occupied a city council seat since 1936. His uncle, Edward J. Sullivan, held the clerk of the courts job from 1958 to 2006, when he was replaced by his nephew. The elder Sullivan died two weeks...