Word: 1870s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TRUE GRIT, by Charles Portis. High camp comes artfully close to original Americana in this yarn of a sassy 14-year-old Arkansan heroine who avenged the murder of her daddy back in the 1870s...
...tradition of Cat Ballou and the Ballad of Dingus Magee. For openers, his hero is a heroine: Mattie Ross, a sassy, 14-year-old Arkansan whose chief protective girdle is a dry Bible-belt faith, and who is out to avenge the murder of her daddy back in the 1870s...
...guard of Mississippi's white supremacy has been mindful of threats to unseat the state's delegation to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago if Negroes are excluded from the party. So last week the old guard retreated. For the first time since the 1870s, Mississippi's party chiefs decided to admit Negroes to a statewide caucus that will meet at Jackson on July 2 to select 48 convention delegates and 24 alternates. In eight of the state's 82 counties, disciplined blacks and a smattering of young white allies elected 47 Negroes. Jefferson County, over...
Pollard's plight is common enough from Harlem to Newark. But to find poverty in Greenport, L.I., is something else again. As Poet William Cullen Bryant wrote in the 1870s of the tidy, tree-shaded town with its white clapboard houses: "Nowhere is decay or unwholesome poverty apparent." It is not apparent today, but there all the same are migrant labor camps, like the Cutchogue settlement for potato workers, whose four grey-painted World War I barracks house itinerant teams of Florida, Arkansas, Virginia or New Jersey farm hands. Isaiah, 35, the crew chief, is a diminutive Negro from Florida...
Trigger-Twitchy. To Allsop the hobo was largely a product of economic forces; he was an "exiled industrial worker" who would have stayed home in the first place if he could have found a job. The ranks of hoboes swelled during periods of depression-the 1870s, the 1930s. The men who rode the rails in the early part of the 20th century, says Allsop, were almost always migrant workers...