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...students and staff, of paternalistic attitudes by a hearing world that perpetuates the myth that deaf people cannot function on their own. Comparing today's demands by deaf people with the black civil rights struggle in Alabama 23 years ago, Gallaudet Graduate Student Kathy Karcher declared, "This is the Selma of the deaf...
...hint that his southern campaign will concentrate on urban areas, Dukakis mentioned Miami, Atlanta, Norfolk and Selma in his speech. The governor insists, however, that he will campaign in all parts of the South...
EYES ON THE PRIZE (PBS). A decade of civil rights struggles, from the Brown desegregation case to the Selma march, was chronicled in graceful prose and unforgettable images...
...enrolled at Harvard Law and marched for civil rights in Selma. He devoted summers to social work in Latin America, developing fluency in Spanish and an abiding interest in the region's politics. Following graduation, he worked for the federal antipoverty program in Texas, then Washington. He found both posts exhilarating, but cultivated a healthy skepticism about "efforts to force social change from the top down...
...strength -- the strength, in this case, to walk through mobs to get to school." Those were heroic days in the South, when obscure and unarmed people with names like Rosa Parks and James Meredith and Martin Luther King Jr. fought for black rights on obscure battlefields with names like Selma and Neshoba County. In one of those rare cases of the right man and time and place, Jimmy was there too, organizing, encouraging, marching, helping to "bear witness to the truth...