Word: selma
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What about those police officers in Selma, Ala., who in 1965 sent attack dogs after civil rights demonstrators? The South African security guards who enforce apartheid? And the Iraqi Republican Guard, or even the ordinary Iraqi soldiers, who invaded Kuwait? Weren't they all just following orders...
...need for a change of attitudes arises from some experiences common to the current generation, the first to come of age after the civil rights battles of the '60s and '70s. Most parents of today's undergraduates remember Freedom Summer and the Selma march, but somehow they have failed to impart the lessons to their children. When confronted with the name of Malcolm X, the Black Muslim leader, for example, one white student at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst innocently asked her professor, "Who is this Malcolm the Tenth?" Says Daniel Levitas, executive director of the Atlanta-based Center...
Professor Bell cast his die last week, but the river he crossed was not the Rubicon, it was the Alabama. Last week Derrick Bell crossed over the Edmund J. Pettus bridge, and he crossed if heading back to Selma. He crossed it into Selma because he denied Blacks full freedom of intellectual development and because he accepted racial and gender divisions as the natural order of things...
...indifference to another. ! Says University of Wisconsin chancellor Donna Shalala: "My grandparents came from Lebanon. I don't identify with the Pilgrims on a personal level." Christopher Jencks, professor of sociology at Northwestern, asks, "Is anything more basic about turkeys and Pilgrims than about Martin Luther King and Selma? To me, it's six of one and half a dozen of the other, if children understand what it's like to be a dissident minority. Because the civil rights struggle is closer chronologically, it's likelier to be taught by someone who really cares...
...rain poured down in 48 hours. In Elba, Ala. (pop. 4,355), the torrent breached the levee holding off the Pea River. No one was killed, but 3,000 had to evacuate the area. Elsewhere, bridges washed away, and caskets floated up from the rain-loosened soil of a Selma cemetery...