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Shelter Island Reporter calendar of events Art/Rich Poetry Roundtable: Tuesday, 4 p.m., Library. CoreSyn with Trent: Tuesdays and Saturdays, at 8 a.m. at Fiske Field basketball courts. In bad weather, at the Legion Hall. English as a second language: Thursdays, 7 p.m. with Teri Piccozzi, Library. Functional Fitness with Susan on Zoom: Tuesdays and Thursdays, at 9 a.m. Email [email protected]com to sign up and receive zoom link. Intermediate French Conversation: Thursdays, 4 p.m., Library, Zoom. Music Trivia & Light Movement: Mondays, 11-11:45 a.m., Senior Center via Zoom, [email protected]. Out of school fun zone for grades pre-K to 4: Shelter Island Youth Center, from 2:45-5 p.m., Monday-Wednesday, $10 per child, per day. 631-749-0309. ....
Bob Zellner, A Son Of The South 1 Photo Bob Zellner s book The Wrong Side of Murder Creek. Staff Writer on Feb 8, 2021 Bob Zellner was raised in Alabama and is the son and grandson of Ku Klux Klan members. But early in life, he questioned Jim Crow segregation, which was endemic in his community. As a young man, he joined the civil rights movement, becoming the first white field secretary of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. In the course of being beaten, jailed and personally targeted by Alabama’s notorious governor George Wallace, he came to know many of the movement’s icons, including John Lewis, Rosa Parks and Fannie Lou Hamer. ....
I’ve said it at this blog again and again and again: Topics that were once discussed only at “racist websites” now semi-regularly make their way into the mainstream alas, decades too late to matter… She s linking to photoblog IconicPhotos, whose post on the famous picture of a Birmingham cop with a German Shepherd comes with a disclaimer that some opinions which follow may be upsetting to some readers. I have written about both photos before. The reactions to London photo [ about a Hate-Thatcher demo in 1990] are muted; the comments under the Alabama photo were virulent. It touched a nerve: some accused me of ....
Tom Lankford, civil rights reporter secretly in league with police, dies at 85 Matt Schudel Tom Lankford, a journalist who covered the civil rights movement in the troubled city of Birmingham, Ala., while also conducting secret surveillance for his publisher and local police authorities in the 1960s, died Dec. 31 at a hospital in Gadsden, Ala. He was 85. His family announced the death in a notice in the Gadsden Times newspaper. His former newspaper, the Birmingham News, reported that he died of covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. Mr. Lankford began working for the News, then an afternoon newspaper, in 1959, when the civil rights movement was gaining strength, along with White resistance to it. For several years, he seemed to be everywhere in the South, covering major civil rights flash points. ....
Pulitzer-Prize winners Garry Wills, Ron Chernow, Jon Meacham and Stacy Schiff are among hundreds of historians who have signed an open letter calling for ....