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...spent one year prepping and two years in ju-co purgatory before bursting into the Terps' starting lineup. At Allegany Community College, Francis averaged 25 points per game and was a First-Team Junior College All-American. ESPN's Jay Bilas calls Francis the Roy Hobbs of the 64-team field...
...unused to the ways of the segregated South, the 14-year-old allegedly flirted with a white woman. He may simply have returned her gaze as she stared at a stranger's face, and not looked away as black men were supposed to do. Carolyn Bryant told her husband Roy about it. And Roy Bryant and his brother J.W. Milam seized Emmett from the home of his great-uncle in the middle of the night, drove off and proceeded to bludgeon and, finally, shoot him. Then they threw him into the river...
...Byrd's relatives. One of the dead man's sisters has spoken of reconciliation. And there is cause for relief that a jury of 11 whites and one black in a small Southern town could come to the same moral conclusion, the same definition of justice. In 1955, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam were declared not guilty by an all-white jury in less time than it takes to watch a movie. A month later, at the behest of a journalist who paid for the story, Milam felt enough public approbation to confess to the murder with impunity...
...partners will be Eggrs and Roy. The two could really use Woodward's help--Roy says he has only made $2 to $3 per hour playing in Harvard Square, but says the difference is due to the fact that Woodward may be "cuter...
Other musicians, though, are uncertain that they want to live the life of a starving artist. Roy, who graduated last semester and is currently a teaching fellow of a Harvard electronics course, say, "I could go make a million dollars at Goldman schs...[so] there is a certain degree to which music is always challenged by sparkly opportunities...