Word: selma
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...acting. He raised black people's aspirations and changed white folks' opinions." Winfield co-stars with Cicely Tyson (as Coretta) and Ossie Davis (as Martin Luther King Sr.) in NBC'S two-part special on King scheduled to air Nov. 6 and 7. Although the 1965 Selma civil rights march, led by King, took place in Alabama, the cast and 300 extras were restaging it in southern Georgia last week. Earlier, to get more insight into the man whose role he was playing, Winfield had sought the advice of Martin Luther King Sr. Recalls Winfield wryly: "Daddy...
Many gay leaders claimed that Bryant had united them for the first time-the battle, they said, was "the Selma" of the movement.* Sergeant Matlovich, however, warned that "stormy times are ahead. I fear repression. Some gays are going to have to be prepared to make sacrifices-even...
...blacklisted performers in the '50s. Terkel's range as a historian is determined by the range of what he saw and heard -a limitation in other reporters, perhaps, but a vast license in Terkel's case. He was in Chicago when Dillinger was shot and in Selma in 1965. He has also elicited conversation from just about every notable from Bertrand Russell to Mahalia Jackson-and he is still at his listening post at Chicago's WFMT...
Harvard Sociologist Thomas Pettigrew compared Roots to the aftermath of John Kennedy's assassination as a major television event. Some black leaders viewed Roots as the most important civil rights event since the 1965 march on Selma, an overstatement perhaps, but an indication of the depths of their feelings...
Simone Weil was born in 1909 in Paris, to Dr. Bernard Weil and his wife, Selma. By Petrement's account Simone's were model parents--cultured yet unaffected, proud of their children's successes but not pushy, fun-loving and emotionally honest. Simone and her brother Andre, a precocious methematician who currently works at the Center for Advanced Study at Princeton, enjoyed a materially privileged and psychologically peaceful childhood--spending early years and summers in the country and benefitting from the best of Parisian schooling during their teens and early twenties...