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Competing Frameworks For Assessing Contemporary Holocaust-Era Claims, Vivian Grosswald Curran Jan 2001

Competing Frameworks For Assessing Contemporary Holocaust-Era Claims, Vivian Grosswald Curran

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There are many angles from which to perceive the contemporary holocaust-era claims. In 1997, Time magazine quoted Elie Wiesel as saying that, [i]f all the money in all the Swiss banks were turned over, it would not bring back the life of one Jewish child. But the money is a symbol. It is part of the story. If you suppress any part of the story, it comes back later, with force and violence.

Wiesel touches on two perspectives: first, what has been described as litigating the holocaust, with all that that implies about the law's questionable capacity to adjudicate issues …


Swinford, Mac, 1899-1975 (Sc 1449), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2001

Swinford, Mac, 1899-1975 (Sc 1449), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1449. Letter, 21 April 1970, of U.S. District Court Judge Mac Swinford, Lexington, Kentucky, to Crawford Crowe, Bowling Green, Kentucky, fulfilling a request for a copy of his book Kentucky Lawyer. He declines to vouch for the accuracy of the book's historical facts "other than as legend."


Behind The Glare Of The Spotlight: Grassroots Efforts To Integrate Facilities In Jacksonville, Florida 1958-1963, Debbie Owens Dec 2000

Behind The Glare Of The Spotlight: Grassroots Efforts To Integrate Facilities In Jacksonville, Florida 1958-1963, Debbie Owens

Debbie Owens

The author examines community-based crusades that augmented the collective efforts of national civil rights organizations. This article illuminates the roles of individual contributors to the grassroots and legal struggle for racial equality in Jacksonville, Florida, between 1958 and 1963. An examination of both local and national press coverage of efforts by citizens to integrate public facilities reveals the scope of this grassroots activism, which paralleled the national campaign.


The Autumn After September 11 (Poem), Frank Pommersheim Dec 2000

The Autumn After September 11 (Poem), Frank Pommersheim

Frank Pommersheim

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