Word: selma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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EYES ON THE PRIZE (PBS). A decade of civil rights struggles, from the Brown desegregation case to the Selma march, was chronicled in graceful prose and unforgettable images...
...enrolled at Harvard Law and marched for civil rights in Selma. He devoted summers to social work in Latin America, developing fluency in Spanish and an abiding interest in the region's politics. Following graduation, he worked for the federal antipoverty program in Texas, then Washington. He found both posts exhilarating, but cultivated a healthy skepticism about "efforts to force social change from the top down...
...strength -- the strength, in this case, to walk through mobs to get to school." Those were heroic days in the South, when obscure and unarmed people with names like Rosa Parks and James Meredith and Martin Luther King Jr. fought for black rights on obscure battlefields with names like Selma and Neshoba County. In one of those rare cases of the right man and time and place, Jimmy was there too, organizing, encouraging, marching, helping to "bear witness to the truth...
...signs of doing better. The stories of Anthony, 19, Kemya, 16, and Myndell, the baby, 14, all have a disturbing sameness. None of them are interested in school; all are drawn to the street. They don't read % newspapers or much of anything else. When asked what places like Selma, Birmingham and Greensboro mean to them, they are dumbfounded...
...state troopers of Alabama have turned up at several points in the history of the civil rights movement, usually on the opposing side. In 1963 Governor George Wallace called them out to block school integration in Tuskegee. Two years later they were pummeling black demonstrators on the Selma-to-Montgomery freedom march. So it was less than surprising that when the time came to integrate themselves, they dragged their feet. The force totally excluded blacks as troopers until ordered to hire them in 1972 by a federal court. Then it dawdled in the face of subsequent court orders to promote...