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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John Howe lowered the assessments of Robert and Selma Kopelman by nearly $15,000--from $44,900 to $30,000. The Kopelmans were long-time neighbors of the Howes. Though assessments are generally consistent in a given neighborhood, other property assessments in the area were raised by Howe...

Author: By Mark A. Feldstein, COPYRIGHT 1978, THE HARVARD CRIMSON, INC. | Title: Howe Family May Have Used Taxes For Political Advantage in Somerville | 11/3/1978 | See Source »

...would love some explanation, enlightenment or clarification about this said, sad state that your area is in. Selma Perton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seedy Surroundings | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

...beating of black Freedom Riders at a Birmingham bus depot in 1961. He tipped off agents about a bomb shortly before it went off at a Birmingham church, killing four young black girls in 1963. His testimony sent two Klansmen to prison in connection with the murder near Selma, Ala., of Viola Liuzzo, a white civil rights activist from Detroit, in 1965. Then, to protect Rowe from Klansmen's revenge, the Justice Department gave him a different identity and helped him make a new life at an undisclosed location in the Southeast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: New Furor over an Old Informant | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

Thursday, May 11: Lecture: Women and Capital (with a little help from Marx), by Selma James, feminist, Schneider Mainstage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WELLESLEY | 5/4/1978 | See Source »

...atmosphere was stifling," says Carey. "Women formed cliques, gossiping." The women's movement didn't exist yet, and the civil rights movement and Selma were yet to come. In the dating culture, women without Saturday night dates were even too embarrassed to come to their consolation milk and cookies. Yet, by the '70s, Carey "would definitely have chosen to live at the Quad...

Author: By Emmy Goldknopf, | Title: The Quad: Off the Common Path | 3/7/1978 | See Source »

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