Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reared in Birmingham during the Depression, Fitzgerald became thrift-conscious early. Despite his family's modest circumstances, he managed to graduate from the University of Alabama with an industrial engineering degree. Later he formed his own management-consultant firm called Performance Technology Corp. After doing some military contract work, he was hired by the Pentagon in 1965 and given the title of Deputy to the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Financial Affairs. Fitzgerald says that he took the $28,000-a-year job in hope of making reforms from within. "I had hoped," he recalls, "that once...
...concern with the rights of the individual-even though many critics complained that in some instances it had already gone too far. Just minutes before Burger's swearing-in, it handed down three decisions that further protect the rights of criminal defendants: > In a pair of cases from Alabama and North Carolina, the court ruled that a man who gets a criminal conviction set aside but is convicted a second time on the same charge, may not be given a longer sentence without any justification. Bad conduct after the first trial may be sufficient reason for a harsher sentence...
...Good Enough. Under intensifying attack in recent years, the Warren court continued, nevertheless, to enlarge, clarify and insist upon its previous rulings. To hasten school desegregation in one Alabama county this year, the court found it necessary to uphold a racial quota requiring each school to have at least one black for every five white teachers and staff members. The court also proclaimed during the recent session that approximate equality in voting districts was not good enough, and that the states must strive to achieve absolute equality in the population of each district...
...before, John Kennedy was shot dead in the middle of a Biology test. A girl came running into class hysterical to tell us. A few of us stayed to finish up our mollusca; then they let us out early. The summer before, I was a civil rights worker in Alabama. In those days, we believed that the government could solve all of our problems, and that we were the good guys and the government was on our side fighting the forces of evil...
...Southern Courier, an Alabama-based civil rights newspaper founded by Harvard graduates, put out its last issue. The paper's editor, Michael Lottman '62, said that chronic debt and dwindling effectiveness convinced him to shut down the Courier...