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...talk about the Founding Fathers -- but we also have to talk about women's role, African Americans' role. This was not just white Anglo-Saxons who fought in the Revolution; it was Americans of all races, colors and creeds. We're not putting down anybody. Instead of a spotlight on one group, we want a floodlight on many cultures...
Henry has just come out of a fierce redistricting battle in the state legislature, of which he has been a member since 1980. There are daily confrontations over housing, jobs and always the budget. But such battles now go unnoticed outside Mississippi and the Delta. "The spotlight is harder to focus here," he admits, and in that statement he may have defined the movement's great success. Now that the issue of legal equality has been laid to rest, blacks and whites in the Delta often stand together against outside forces, not each other. The war is economic and social...
...weaving of a story that is much longer on atmospherics than plot. Thinking about Julia prompts Fay to begin thinking about herself: "I am a simple woman, and always was." She gave up her singing career to marry; unlike the haughty Julia, who was pushed out of the spotlight by age and changing public tastes in entertainers, Fay has no regrets about her diminished standing in the world. She does wonder why she and her husband were not happier together: "Now I realize that it is marriage which is the great temptation for a woman, and that...
...Harvard, Gallagher was able to gain enough notoriety by tabling for the candidate in front of Widener Library. After having argued with countless students and faculty members while tabling, it was at a Support the Troops rally on Widener steps this winter that Gallagher thrust himself into the spotlight...
Last June, the future seemed bright for student activists at the Law School who held several protests urging the school to diversity its faculty. Besides gaining the attention of the school's community from several well-attended rallies, they also attracted a national spotlight when Weld Professor of Law Derrick A. Bell vowed to take an unpaid leave of absence until the school tenured a Black woman...