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...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...
George Wallace is George Wallace. Selma, and school house doors, and 'Never' tie clips. I looked down to the list of candidates for U.S. senator...
...Scot Sloan, "the fighting young priest who can talk to the young ... Didn't you read about me in Look? Birmingham, Selma, Chicago '68?" He lives with his dog, Unconditional Amnesty, and his cat, Kent State...