European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 17, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse By Wayne King new York times film recalls racist horror of june 1964 i Gene Hackman left and wit Emma foe in a scene from the film missis Sippi t was a hot sunday afternoon in june of 1954 when Throo Young civil rights workers. Michael Schwerner Andrew Goodman and James Chaney. Were arrested on a trumped up speeding charge Cousido Philadelphia miss. They were hold for eight hours Ihen released. By pro arrangement they wore again stopped on a lonely Road by the same Neshoba county Deputy sheriff who had arrested them earlier this time accompanied by a party of Kun flux klansmen. They were murdered transported to an earthen dam several Miles away and buried with a Bulldozer. More than 150 Fri agents descended on Neshoba county to investigate the disappearance of the civil rights workers two of them Goodman and Schwerner whiles from new York and the third Chancy a Black who lived in Neshoba county. It was 44 Days before the investigators penetrated the racist veil of silence that enveloped the Case and found the bodies. Goodman horribly had a ballot the a in which he was buried squeezed in his hand indicating that he had not been dead when the Bulldozer sealed him into the grave. Another three years passed before some of those responsible Neshoba county Deputy sheriff Cecil Price and six other including the klan Imperial Sam Bowers wore convicted of Civ Kights violations and Given prison terms of up to. 10 years. None served More than five. There is no Federal murder statute covering such crimes and no Slata charges against the men were brought in Mississippi despite evidence Al the Federal trial those Are the acts the True lasts As some Pul in in those Days of relative reality on which the British director Alan Parker s film Mississippi burning is based. It stars Gene Hackman As the sheriff turned Fri agent whose. Violent tactics ultimately break the Case when orthodox methods fail and Wilem Dafoe As the bytes Book Justice department official who grudgingly acquiesces to Hackman s tactics Tho facts Are shocking 1o the sensibilities and the emotion and t for Angel heart an to the imagination inventing dramatic. I m Irving lore knows nothing of i said in a Telephone react loll visceral racism that s Arou enough of a reason fictional izing the film s open burning Church the Road whore the i created with Grap victims Are never r and details Are cd the reality that is r documents. To those famil brutal intimidation county also Hilo in Lima is Evora to when Dafoe As investigator make Black Section of a Young Black Man klansmen whet i such beatings oct churches and h and that to the a 1964 to january of Black churches a. Fri records. 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Association poster. -. year for the Fisl to Trio in to uni Vorsila s 120-year history the percentage of White students at us Berkeley the largest and founding Campus inthe University i Cas Lornia system slipped below 50 percent the unprecedented racial and ethnic mix of students comes As faculty members debate whether to require students to take an american Culler is course that focuses on the contributions of minorities. The controversial proposal has Sli Rcd a debate so emotional that it has been compared with the Campus pro less that erupted Thoro during the. Vietnam War. Tho faculty s academic Senate meeting to discuss the measure last May turned into a shouting Malch. We be created in such Short order such a substantial diversity of people Here that some self conscious attempt to address the variety of backgrounds seems Loma a Good idea said Chancellor Ira Michael Heyman who refrained in a interview from endorsing the specific contents of the proposed course requirement. Faculty both for and against the proposed curriculum revision said thai they expect it will be. Bound Over Lor further review and a comp Mise or voted Down altogether. Currently. Us Berkeley which draws Tram did lop eighth of California High school seniors requires Only that its students be proficient in English. A Reading and composition the single requirement of All undergraduates. Most student leaders and Many Tacury members believe that the amen can cultures requirement would enhance racial Harmony and provide an informed understanding o minorities that is lacking in textbooks and lectures that they say a a taught irony an overwhelmingly White perspective. V we ate asking Tor multicultural literacy in America said Ronald Takal a third generation japanese american who is a professor of ethnic studies and a Strong supporter of the proposal be read Plato and Shakespeare and Herman Melville and i m glad i be Road those texts i m just saying read , Loo. Read Carlos Bulosan students Between classes at the University of California at Berkeley when asians account for 20 percent of the undergraduate students. Alice Walker and m. Scott Momaday. This represents intellectual affirm alive action to in reduce Stew Conland and knowledge to Fije traditional curriculum it would give new intellectual vitality to the traditional disciplines and it would bring anew intellectual coherence to our University Takaki said. As originally Der undergraduates v. Semester course i native americans americans and cd. 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