Straw steps out with Rice in Alabama

From the Decatur Daily. Friday 21st October 2005

Jack Straw MP for Blackburn, with Birmingham AL. born Condoleezza Rice will lecture at The University of Alabama jointly touring civil rights sites in Birmingham, will present a joint Frank A Nix (founder Arlington Properties d.1996)Lecture in a program presented by the university's Blackburn Institute at 11 a.m. Friday.

The institute studies a subject dear to the heart of Jack, "ways to improve the qualify of life in Alabama".

Later in Birmingham AL. Straw and Rice will tour the 123 year old Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, with surviving relatives of four black girls (Denise McNair (11), and 14 yr olds Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia Wesley) who died there in a Ku Klux Klan bombing on September 15th 1963 ( prosecution of the bombers was halted by J.Edgar Hoover, Director of the FBI), as well as visiting the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and a park that was the site of numerous civil rights protests where they will jointly dedicate a new civil rights memorial.

They will also will also attend (and get to flip the coin too!) Saturday's annual blood-bath between Alabama Crimson Tide and Tennessee Volunteers game at Bryant-Denny Stadium.

Pic shows Rosa Parks, of Montgomery AL. being arrested 1st December 1955 - 50 years ago( ! ) ,who sparked the first of the Montgomery Bus Protests when she refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man.

The assembled World Press are in a feeding frenzy in AL. as rumours fly of the impending Coronation of the piano playing bathroom attendant as Veep '05, strutting her stuff with Jack, the 2nd most powerful, man in the world on her way to becoming the first woman and coloured POTUS '08.

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