Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vendor, Walston started the firm in San Francisco under the aegis of Barik of America Founder A. P. Giannini, moved to New York in 1958, where he built up to assets of $151 million, with 90 offices from Honolulu to Switzerland. His one and great pleasure was going on African safari, from which he returned to decorate his office with water-buffalo heads, rhinoceros hides, an elephant's foot-and an arsenal of small arms...
...VOICE OF AFRICA (RCA Victor) is Miriam Makeba, late of South Africa and also dispossessed. The music here is not only African: there is a taste of gospel, a pop tune and even opera (the Willow Song from Otello). Makeba can manage them all, but her heart is in the songs of her own people, like Ohude and Uyadela. "When all the beasts of the earth had gone to fetch their tails," she sings in Zulu, "the rock rabbit had long given up all hope, hence the absence of his tail...
...marriage between whites and Negroes is actually rare in the U.S.-at least officially-miscegenation by cohabitation is another matter, rooted largely in the South's unspoken mores. According to one study by University of Wisconsin Sociologist Robert Stuckert, 21% of white Americans are "descendants of persons of African origin." By the calculation of Anthropologist Melville Herskovitz, 72% of U.S. Negroes have white ancestors...
...cohabitation by unmarried persons of the same race, for example, and the defendants were unable to plead common-law marriage because Florida forbids intermarriage under another law, which the N.A.A.C.P. also wants struck down. Moreover, Florida's definition of Negro ("every person having one-eighth or more of African or Negro b'ood") is so vague that police merely identified McLaughlin as a Negro by "appearance," a frail standard on which to build a case...
...rally is endorsed by the Harvard-Radcliffe Civil Rights Coordinating Committee, the Harvard-Radcliffe Socialist Club, Tocsin, Hillel Society, the Association of African and Afro-American Students, and the Young Democrats. But Eric A. Von Salzen '65, Chairman of the Young Republicans, said last night, "We're going to keep...