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  1. Jackson -- Peter Jackson
    "Peter Jackson is the ideal producer for a remake of 'DAMBUSTERS,'" said Sir David Frost. "Not only because of his film-making genius, but ... because of his aeronautical expertise and his unique understanding of the human pressures wrought by war."
  2. Irene Cara -- Movies
    In 1982, Irene earned the Image Award for Best Actress when she co-starred with Diahann Carroll and Rosalind Cash in the NBC Movie of the Week, Maya Angelou's Sister, Sister. Irene portrayed Myrlie Evers-Williams in the PBS TV movie about civil rights leader Medgar Evers, For Us the Living: The Medgar Evers Story; and earned an NAACP Image Award Best Actress nomination. She ... appeared in 1982's Killing 'em Softly.
  3. Civil Rights Movement -- Voting
    The 1964 convention disillusioned many within the MFDP and the Civil Rights Movement, but it did not destroy the MFDP itself. The MFDP became more radical after Atlantic City, inviting Malcolm X to speak at its founding convention and opposing the war in Vietnam.
  4. Alec Baldwin -- Obie Award
    Returning to the big screen, Baldwin gave a forceful performance in "Ghosts of Mississippi" (1996), starring as a crusading district attorney attempting to bring the murderer of Medgar Evers to justice. Baldwin’s strong dramatic background was ... apparent in Al Pacino’s Shakespearean examination, “Looking for Richard” (1996). While promoting the films, Baldwin worked hard to repair his tarnished image and stood by his wife proudly as she reaped various awards for her role of hooker-with-a-heart-of-gold in “L.A. Confidential” (1997). Baldwin ended 1997 by leading three busloads of volunteers on a tour of Massachusetts to gather signatures for a campaign reform initiative.
  5. Simone Signoret -- Free French
    Worth seeing just for French actress Simone Signoret’s Oscar-winning performance, it’s a powerhouse British tragedy about class, money and power, and how sex, which is used to get them, traps the user. --Alexander Payne
  6. Howard Rollins -- Roles
    In the 25 games since Howard's return, Rollins hit .296 with 20 runs, Victorino .288 with 21 runs and Rowand .291 with 14 runs and 14 RBIs. Chase Utley, already a good hitter, is at a .366 clip with the big guy back.
  7. Civil Rights Movement -- Solid South
    [One] major factor that helps explain the rise of the Civil Rights movement is the mechanization of agriculture in the South beginning in the 1930s. With the introduction of heavy machinery to plant and harvest their crops, Southern farmers were increasingly laying off the Black families who had worked on their farms for generations. As a result, from the 1930s on there was a Black exodus from the rural agricultural South to the urban, industrial South. This movement of Blacks into Southern cities in the 1940s and 1950s helped jump-start the lagging Southern attempts to industrialize like the North and the West. Realizing that they now had to attract Northern and global financial investors to invest in their plants and industries, Southern industrialists and business leaders began to move to end Jim Crow and racial violence; they hoped that by ending Jim Crow, they could convince Northern investors that the South was now a safe place to invest their money in; it was no longer a region dominated by racial conflict and social strife that everyone believed it was.
  8. Civil Rights Movement -- Martin Luther King
    These sites are about the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S. from 1954-1971. Includes several timelines with the major events of the era explained. Take an online tour of several historical spots. Topics include the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Little Rock Central High School, Civil Rights Act of 1964, and Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka. Read about civil rights leader Malcolm X and a first-hand account of the Freedom Rides of 1961. There are links to eThemes Resources on Rosa Parks, Ruby Bridges, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Black History Month.
  9. Tom Joyner
    It is no surprise that urban-radio heavyweight Tom Joyner's first broadcasting experience came as the result of a social cause. A native of Tuskegee, Ala., Joyner was an active participant in the civil-rights movement at an early age. One afternoon in the 1960s, Joyner and others protested outside a local station that played predominantly white “background music,” as Joyner describes it, for the white-owned shops in the overwhelmingly black town.
  10. The Freshman -- Students
    The Freshman Year Program is a University initiative designed to serve incoming freshmen at all levels of ability. The primary goal of the program is to enhance the academic performance of new students and facilitate their integration into the College. The program has established a broad base of planning by forming a committee that includes teaching faculty, student services staff, college administrators and, where appropriate, students. The components of the Freshman Year Program are:
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