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Harvard's influence may be more keenly felt in the executive branch--particularly under the administration of Gov. Michael S. Dukakis. Dukakis, a Law School graduate, is a former lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government, and some state politicoes have identified a "revolving door" between Harvard and the Dukakis administration...
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963 by Taylor Branch (1988). What lifted this biography to new heights was Branch's researches into the origins of the Southern black churches and their influence in inspiring and organizing Martin Luther King Jr.'s civil rights revolution. Volume II is in the works...
...Klux Klansmen involved in a bloody 1979 confrontation with blacks in Decatur, Ala. In September Vance wrote a bluntly worded reversal of a lower-court ruling that had lifted an 18-year-old desegregation order from the Duval County, Fla., schools. The plaintiff in that case was the Jacksonville branch of the N.A.A.C.P. Robinson had played a part in a failed N.A.A.C.P. challenge to a school desegregation plan for Savannah...