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...before his bullet-ripped body went to its grave, Malcolm X was being sanctified. Negro leaders called him "brilliant," said he had recently "moderated" his views, blamed his assassination on "the white power structure" or, in the case of Martin Luther King, on a "society sick enough to express dissent with murder." Malcolm's death, they agreed, was a setback to the civil rights movement...
...court voided a West Virginia law compelling school children to salute the flag even though the ritual was contrary to their religious beliefs. In a memorable dissent, arguing that the Constitution permitted West Virginia to enact "a general nondiscriminatory civil regulation," Frankfurter summed up his entire judicial philosophy: "One who belongs to the most vilified and persecuted minority in history is not likely to be insensible to the freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution. Were my purely personal attitude relevant, I should wholeheartedly associate myself with the general libertarian views in the court's opinion, representing as they...
...incorporation theory has yet to prevail, but his libertarian ideas have. In a spate of recent decisions, the court has increasingly "federalized" state criminal-law procedures and raised them to Bill of Rights standards. In 1962, the court also tackled reapportionment, over Frankfurter's last despairing dissent that it was "a massive repudiation of the experience of our whole past...
...organization, it will be worse off than before. But it is unlikely it has. Even after the ratification of the constitution, one faction forced through an amendment that made the membership's veto power a reality. Politics serves a symbolic function in Harvard drama, and that spirit of dissent represents the potential for artistic innovation...
...death was partially rooted in his character, but his life went beyond personal flaws and was even greater because he accepted his own flaws and the dangers which surrounded him. Malcolm's courage was real. Although trapped by his past, he attempted to play a new role of dissent and a halting flexibility. Perhaps these will become his legacy towards a new code and politics for Negroes