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Radio 4's weekly obituaries programme |
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Friday 31st August 2007
(Rpt) Sunday 2nd September
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Irene Morgan
Civil rights pioneer who has died听aged 90.
Perhaps the most celebrated stand against the separation of blacks from whites was taken by Rosa Parks in 1955. But eleven years earlier another woman had refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white couple. 27 year old Irene Morgan was making the journey from her home in Gloucester County, Virginia to Baltimore to visit the doctor. Her actions that day led to a legal case which went all the way to the Supreme Court.
Matthew Bannister talks to Robin Washington who produced a documentary about the civil rights protests for National Public Television.
Irene Morgan was born on April 9th 1917. She died August 10th 2007.
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Oliver Hill
Civil rights lawyer who has died aged 100.听
The lawyer representing Irene Morgan at the Supreme Court was part of a well known firm of civil rights lawyers based in Richmond Virginia. One of the leading partners in the firm was Oliver Hill.
Mr Hill was part of a distinguished class of students who graduated from Washington鈥檚 all black Howard University in 1933. Top of the class was Thurgood Marshall who went on to become the first black Supreme Court judge. His good friend Oliver Hill came second and went on to fight many landmark cases which secured equal rights for his fellow African Americans.
Oliver Hill received America's highest civilian honour -听The Presidential Medal of Freedom from Bill Clinton in 1999. Oliver Hill鈥檚 most celebrated legal victory was in the case of Brown versus the Board of Education in which he argued that the doctrine then pursued by many southern states of 鈥渟eparate but equal鈥 was unconstitutional. The court agreed, ruling that 鈥渟eparation was inherently unequal鈥.
Matthew Bannister talks to Oliver Hill鈥檚 friend, the Mayor of Richmond Virginia, Lawrence Wilder.
Oliver Hill was born May 1st 1907. He died August 5th 2007.
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Inez Baskin听
American journalist and civil rights supporter who has died aged 91.
One of the powerful symbols of the success of civil rights campaigners is a photograph taken in 1956 at the end of the Montgomery bus boycott. The Reverend Martin Luther King is taking a ride on an integrated bus to celebrate the court victory secured by Rosa Parks. Sitting in the seat in front of Dr. King is a black reporter from the local paper called Inez Baskin.听
Inez started work as a typist at the Montgomery Advertiser but advanced to become a reporter on the paper鈥檚 separate Negro News page, which was folded into the edition delivered to the homes of black people.
Matthew Bannister talks to Inez鈥檚 god daughter Lawanda Goodwine.
Inez J. Baskin was born June 18th 1916. She died June 28th 2007. |
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Mark Birley
London Night club owner who has died aged 77.
In the 1960s and 70s Annabel鈥檚 in London was one of the most fashionable and exclusive clubs in the world. Frank Sinatra popped in for a drink, Jackie Kennedy danced there with Aristotle Onassis and the Greek socialite Taki challenged Muhammad Ali to a fight. Even the Queen and President Nixon were guests at different times. Annabel's was founded and run with meticulous attention to detail by Mark Birley. His friend John Aspinall offered him the basement of a building in Berkeley Square to start a nightclub. Mark named the club after his wife 鈥 the former Lady Annabel Vane-Tempest-Stewart who later left him for Sir James Goldsmith.
Towards the end of his life, Mark Birley handed the running of Annabel's and his other London clubs to his son Robin, but after a family feud, sold them to the fashion tycoon Richard Caring for an estimated 拢100 million.
Matthew Bannister talks to Mark Birley's听friend for over forty years, David Wynne-Morgan.
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Mark Birley was born May 29th 1930. He died August 24th 2007. |
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Hilly Kristal听
CBGBs founder who has died aged 75.
In 1973 Hilly Kristal opened a music venue in a rough part of downtown Manhattan frequented by homeless people听and drug dealers. The initials stood for Country, Bluegrass and Blues, but in the 1970s this was听 forgotten as Kristal鈥檚 open door booking policy gave the pioneers of punk the chance to make their debuts. Blondie, the Ramones, Talking Heads, Television and Patti Smith all started out on CBGBs tiny stage.
Andrew Purcell interviewed Hilly Kristal before he died and spoke to the former guitarist with Patti Smith鈥檚 band Lenny Kaye and Debbi Harry of Blondie.
Hilly Kristal was born in 1932. He died听August 28th 2007. |
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Raymond Barre
French Prime Minister who has died aged 83.
Raymond Barre was born in the French Indian Ocean protectorate of Reunion. When the French President Valerie Giscard D鈥橢staing appointed Barre as his Prime Minister in 1976, he described him as "the best economist in France". Barre had studied economics and law in Paris and taught at the University of Caen. He was a strong believer in liberal economics and market forces, even though that made him unpopular with many French voters.
Matthew Bannister talks to the journalist Ann-Elisabeth Moutet.
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Raymond Barre was born April 12th 1924. He died August 25th 2007.
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