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• Wilmington Revisits a Bloody 1898 Day: June 4, 2006;John DeSantis;NYT;Wilmington, N.C., Revisits a Bloody 1898 Day and Reflects By JOHN DeSANTIS WILMINGTON, N.C., June 3 — Nobody will ever be certain how many people died the night of Nov....
• General Tubman: February 15, 2004;Drew Gilpin Faust;NYT;if (document.layers) {document.write(" ");}else {document.write(" ");} var google_hints = "Books+and+Literature,Slavery,Blacks,Civil+War+(US)+(1861-65)";...
• Religion led to civil rights victory: January 17, 2004;Historian: By Richard N....
• A Special Bond Between Champions: May 25, 2003;Donald Mcrae;NYT;By DONALD McRAE ''They took away my father's career. They took away his life. Today it would be the same as some administrator telling Tiger Woods his career is over....
• A Problem From Hell, Genocide in the 20th Century: February 5, 2003;Celestine Bohlen (Nyt) 1879 Words;NYT;By CELESTINE BOHLEN () 1879 words By her own definition Samantha Power is a child of Bosnia. Not literally: born in Ireland in 1970, she came to the United States when she was 9....
• Zen At War: January 11, 2003;Allan M. Jalon;NYT;Meditating on War and Guilt, Zen Says It's Sorry By ALLAN M. JALON o many Americans, Zen Buddhists primarily devote themselves to discovering inner serenity and social peace....
• Desegregated Nixon Shultz: January 8, 2003;George P. Shultz;NYT;How a Republican Desegregated the South's Schools By GEORGE P. SHULTZ ALO ALTO, Calif....
• Shaolin Monks: January 6, 2003;Clifford Pugh;SS;Shaolin monks bring true kung fu to South Florida By Clifford Pugh Houston Chronicle They break iron bars over their heads, balance on spear points and w...
• HLMencken: December 18, 2002;Richard Bernstein;NYT;Hating the Booboisie, and M...
• Paul Aicher: August 19, 2002;News Obituary, Civic Innovator and Philanthropist, Dies at 76 Paul J....
• A Classic that Jolted America: February 6, 2002;NYT;From a Classic That Jolted America ollowing are passages from Claude Brown's "Manchild in the Promised Land" (Macmillan, 1965). I was learning to shoot pool real good....
• Manchild in the Promised Land: February 6, 2002;Robert F. Worth;NYT;Claude Brown, Manchild of the Promised Land, Dies at 64 By ROBERT F....
• 'Bloody Sunday' of '72: Digging Anew for the Truth: January 30, 2002;Warren Hoge;NYT;ONDONDERRY, Northern Ireland, Jan. 25 — On Jan. 30, 1972, the day known since as Bloody Sunday, British paratroopers fatally shot 14 unarmed Roman Catholic civil rights marchers in the streets of this city....
• Exploited in Life and Death, South African to Go Home: January 30, 2002;Suzanne Daley;NYT;January 30, 2002 Exploited in Life and Death, South African to Go Home By SUZANNE DALEY ARIS, Jan. 29 —...
• 'Martin Luther King, Jr.': King for Beginners: January 27, 2002;Scott Malcomson;NYT;'Martin Luther King, Jr....
• Digging up Roots: January 17, 2002;Don Aucoin;SS;The Boston Globe January 17, 2002 There had never been anything on television like it before, and there hasn't been anything quite like it since....
• Cuban-American activist Bello dies: December 26, 2001;Bill Douthat;PBP;, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Wednesday, WEST PALM BEACH -- Jose Bello, Palm Beach County's patriarch of Cuban-American social and political organizations, died Saturday. He was 94....
• Bystanders to Genocide: August 31, 2001;Samantha Power;The Atlantic Monthly;, September 2001,, by The author's exclusive interviews with scores of the participants in the decision-making, together with her analysis of newly declassified documents, yield a chilling narrative of self-...
• U. of Georgia Cannot Use Race in Admission Policy, Court Rules: August 28, 2001;David Firestone;NYT;TLANTA, Aug....
• Minorities' Care for Mental Ills Is Called Inferior: August 27, 2001;Erica Goode;NYT;he nation's ethnic and racial minorities face large and troubling disparities in mental health care, the surgeon general said yesterday in a broad and c...
• In Crown Heights, a Decade of Healing After Riots, but Scars Remain: August 19, 2001;John Kifner And Felicia R. Lee;NYT;, published in the New York Times In Crown Heights, a Decade of Healing After Riots, but Scars Remain By JOHN KIFNER and FELICIA R....
• Racism Talks Are Stumbling On Language About Israel: August 12, 2001;Elizabeth Olson;NYT;, Sunday By ELIZABETH OLSON Negotiations to prepare for a United Nations conference on racism ended Friday mired in disagreement over whether language critical of Israel should be included on the agenda, and w...
• Administration Backs Affirmative Action Plan: August 11, 2001;Neil A. Lewis;NYT;, Saturday By NEIL A....
• President of Urban League Calls for Review of Inequity: July 30, 2001;Robin Toner;NYT;, Monday By ROBIN TONER The head of the National Urban League called on the Bush administration today to conduct a comprehensive review of the ''pervasive racism'' in the criminal justice system, from racial profi...
• Live by the Pen, Die by the Sword: July 17, 2001;John Noble Wilford;NYT;July 17, 2001 By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD Drawing by Jarrod Burks Scenes in the palaces at Palenque, top, and Bonampak in the Mexican state of Chiapas document stages of ceremony after the capture of scribes....
• Martin Luther King's Letter from a Birmingham Jail: April 16, 1963;Martin Luther King, Jr.;MY DEAR FELLOW CLERGYMEN: While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities "unwise and untimely....
• The Poverty of Affluence: Paul L. Wachtel;Creating Livable Alternatives to Wage Slavery Book Review : A Psychological Portrait of the American Way of Life by Paul L....
• Sacajawea ... Sakakawea ... Sacagawea ...

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